

Welcome to Rise of the Dragon. This unique game is based on Dynamix Game Development System, which comes with many improvement in adventure gaming. The characters have personalities and a past and as real people, they remember what you said or did to them. Everything you say or do will affect their actions in the future. Time passes in this world, This means that, things happen with or without you. It also means that the passage of time becomes a factor in everything you do. Offices close at night, travel takes more time to longer distances and of course, you need to rest and sleep. In 2053, William 'Blade' Hunter is a former Los Angeles Police Department officer turned private detective. When the mayor's rebellious daughter Chandra is found dead and horribly mutated after experimenting with a new designer drug called MTZ, Blade is called upon to track down those responsible. Blade makes contact with a streetwise friend of Chandra nicknamed "the Jake", who indicates Chen Lu as the dealer who had been supplying Chandra with the lethal drug. Blade goes to Chen Lu's apartment only to find Lu assassinated with an overdose of MTZ, as a punishment for attracting public attention by causing the death of a powerful man's daughter. As Blade tries to reconcile with his girlfriend Karyn, who works at the Crime Records Bureau, he enlists her help to track down Lu's accomplices and discover the mutagenic nature of the MTZ drug. It is revealed that the MTZ business is part of an underground Chinese Mafia operation led by Deng Hwang, a megalomaniacal drug kingpin intent on world domination. Blade also meets an old fortune teller, who tells him the present year coincides with that of the foretold coming of Chinese dragon Bahumat. Blade disrupts the MTZ production schedule by blowing up the local drug plant, but in doing so he is spotted by Hwang's men. Hwang has the Jake captured in an attempt to lure Blade into a trap, but Blade manages to rescue the Jake and later sabotages the Triad's plans to poison the Hollywood reservoir with MTZ and exterminate the population of Los Angeles. In retaliation, Hwang has Karyn kidnapped and strapped to a chair, threatening to inject MTZ into her system. Blade infiltrates Hwang's headquarters and, depending on the player's actions, either manages or fails to rescue Karyn. He eventually comes face-to-face with Hwang himself, who suddenly transforms into the dragon Bahumat. In a climactic final battle, Bahumat is defeated by Blade. Outside the headquarters, Blade is greeted by the mayor but angrily punches him for using Blade as a pawn in his crackdown operation and endangering his life and Karyn's. Blade then walks away either with Karyn, if she has survived, or alone.
Point-and-clickFightingPuzzleAdventureActionScience fictionMysterymartial artscyberpunkdetectivemurderfuturistichand-to-hand combataction-adventuregraphic adventurealternative puzzle solutionsmurder mysterytag teamingPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga, Sega CD
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Earnest, grave, unpretentious and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga, Sega CD
- Developer
- Dynamix
- Publisher
- Dynamix, Sega, Sierra On-Line, Activision
- Released
- December 31, 1990
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
IGDB rating 7.0/10 from 6 ratings.
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