Take 2 Black Dahlia Adventure Review

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Summary:
Black Dahlia is a nice climatic game with beautiful graphics, challenging puzzles but - unfortunately - poor and illogical plot. Yes, I know that its only a computer game but BD seems to be pretending to sth more ambitious. Shame really, because after the first hours of playing I expected a better story.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $39.00 from EBX

Summary:
This game puts you in the place of a new employee in the Gov dep't that preceded the FBI, as you follow the trail of a strange serial killer that may or may not have some Nazi connections. It's very much film noir as a game, and it works, unlike many other games with FMV.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $50.00 from R U Game?

Summary:
Unarguably the best detective game on the PC to date

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Summary:
This is not an adventure game; it's just a puzzle game which pretends to be an adventure game. Actually it's not even a game. It's just a whole big puzzle. I was constantly dreaming of puzzles and runes and doors that I can't open during my sleeps after playing BD. After a while I was so fed up that I went to my fonts folder and delted every single one of the runic fonts I had. It was like an incessant voice in my head: "runes runes runes runes runes... Decipher the runes..." I used the UHS file or just bypassed the puzzles because I was so interested in the story that I couldn't leave the game. However, though the story was good, it was mostly a disappointment to me. I thought the game was mostly about actual Black Dahlia case and that was gonna be the climax but it was just about the stupid pursuit for that bloody gem. Thus I found the fact that when Pearson learned about the death of Beth Short he just went on looking for the gem very disappointing and disturbing. And I didn't like the metaphysical elements. This should've been a proper adventure game without the terrible puzzles and some interest in a serial killer's mind. I actually would like the killer to remain unknown.
The best thing in the game is Darren Eliker. He's not only handsome, he's a fantastic actor. Dennis Hopper was not good, sorry to say. And I enjoyed Teri Garr's comical performance. The woman who played Beth Short was very beautiful and physically appropriate but unfortunately she wasn't very good, either.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Summary:
Put away Unreal Tournament or whatever else you rate as the best game of all time, cause I've got news for you... its not... Black Dahlia is. Let me take you back to 1941, Cleveland, America. Your name is Jim Pearson, a rookie at the COI, investigating Nazi subversives in the area. But be prepared, the leads in your first case draw you in to something far more sinister than you could ever have imagined...