Description
Bruno Vasto, a madman, has stolen the experimental SF-2 stealth fighter and threatens to blow up Washington D.C.! It's up to you to infiltrate Vasto's organization and retrieve the fighter to save the world. It's all in a day's work for David Wolf: Secret Agent.
David Wolf: Secret Agent was an experiment by Dynamix, not only as a self-published company, but also to merge digitized cinematic cutscenes with bitmap and 3D animation to create a better "interactive movie". Four 3-D action simulations are the heart of the game: HangGliding (with a machine gun mounted to the front), Sportscar driving (with a machine gun mounted to the front), Fighter Simulation (with a machine gun and a missle launcher mounted to the front), and Skydiving (no machine gun). The player follows along with the story for a few minutes, then is attacked and must outwit his opponents to live.
David Wolf serves as an interesting prequel to the cinematic games
Rise of the Dragon and
Heart of China that
Jeff Tunnell and
Damon Slye were trying to make.
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Trivia
The only review I could track down for David Wolf, favorable or not, was a quote from Dan Gutman of the Miami Herald: "One of the most spectacular games I've seen."
The install program for David Wolf has options for VGA and MCGA support, but they're just placeholders; they aren't selectable. But that didn't stop rumors from making the rounds that there was a 256-color version of David Wolf available (there wasn't.)
The program disks in the package camed sealed in a manilla envelope with the Peregrine (David Wolf's spy agency) logo both on the front and on a sticker sealing the envelope in back. Red stenciled letters read "TOP SECRET" across the front.
The "Tandy TL" sound selection (different from the regular "Tandy" selection) actually plays PC Speaker music instead of multiple sound channels. This is presumably to give the user the ability to use the joystick while playing the game, since the Tandy TL/RL/SL series had a hardware bug that prevented the use of the joystick while the sound chip was in use. (The regular Tandy sound setting does indeed play 3-voice music.)
A "David Wolf Accessories Order Form" came with the game, peddling David Wolf Sweatshirts ($35.95), T-shirts ($14.95), and Dynamix Coffee Mug ($7.95). Also included on the order form was A-10 Tank Killer ($49.95) and a Simulation System Module (supposed to be add-ons to the games that Dynamix published) for A-10, to be available Dec. '89 for $12.95.
Dynamix self-published a few titles other than David Wolf, like A-10 Tank Killer, but were then quickly acquired by Sierra. Their next adventure,
Rise of the Dragon, was published in the Sierra distribution channel and marketed as "a member of the Sierra family".
Some of the more humorous messages, error or otherwise, in the main program executable:
Sorry. This sky is taken. Please give my regards to the fish.
missle life is negative
missle life too large for reality
There are also hooks in the program executable for VGA graphics, but these were never realized (see above trivia).
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Trixter 
(8873) on Jun 13, 2000.
