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Contains dark_angel.t3
ZIP contains game as an .exe (Windows executable) file and as a .t3 file for running in a TADS3-compliant game engine, plus a map (.png) and walkthrough (.txt).
Requires a TADS interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links. (Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.) - Windows Installer
Windows installer .exe installs the Windows executable game file and creates desktop and start menu icons.
Requires a TADS interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links. (Encoded in Macintosh Bin/Hex format.) - Story File (Web UI build)Contains dark_angel_web.t3
dark_angel_web.t3 file compiled for web server deployment.
Legacy WebUI format for TADS. No known interpreter can play this type of file on modern operating systems. On older versions of Windows running Internet Explorer with Flash, you can download the HTML TADS Player Kit for Windows to use this file.
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About the Story
The 2016 release---version 2.0---fixes numerous bugs and useability issues and enhances dialog and player interaction with non-player characters.
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Dark Angel is a noir-ish, pulp fiction detective story set in the present time.
Harry, the player character in this 3rd-person, past-tense IF story, is a San Francisco private detective who gets caught up in a hunt for fabeled treasure which takes a personal turn when members of his family are drawn into the action.
To tell more here would spoil the mystery. Like the old movies and dime novels, a significant part of the fun lies in discovering what the quest is.
Suffice it to say, the intrigue leads Harry to Tijuana, Mexico, where he must break in to a drug lord's walled compound.
Ratings and Reviews
New Review:
Haven't fully tried out the game yet, but the game seems to not be buggy anymore!
Old Review:
Dark Angel has great writing, but the game is buggy- in an early scene, I was supposed to ask someone about a topic, but forgot. When I remembered and asked them later after nothing important happened, I got a default response. Asking characters about them or other topics that should give a response also only gives default responses, and I've seen events fire (for example, to keep the player character at one place) before they are actually supposed to happen. You can also do weird things like putting food in your oven to warm it and coming back later to find that it's still cold (yes, I made sure the oven was on). On the upside, the writing is good and invokes the setting well, and it's nice to see more games with a good and large city setting that's filled out. It just needs more beta testing and more ironing out of the bugs in the game.
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Game Details
First Publication Date: December 3, 2013
Current Version: 2.0
License: Freeware
Development System: TADS 3
Forgiveness Rating: Merciful
| IFIDs: | 15766E71-6294-4E47-85BB-21C2D6C93007 |
| TADS3-0F545E7BD09240296EA8A5CD982606AB |
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