Rise of the Dragon
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The year is 2053, and Los Angeles has turned into a grim place ruled by crime and corruption. William 'Blade' Hunter is a private detective who once was a police officer. He is asked to investigate a horrible murder of the mayor's daughter, whose body was mutilated. As Hunter begins to search for clues that would help him solve the crime, he uncovers a conspiracy involving a deadly drug and a powerful criminal syndicate behind it.
Rise of the Dragon is a futuristic first-person adventure game. The game's visuals are reminiscent of a comic book, with digitized photos of actors and hand-painted backgrounds. Unlike most other adventure games of the time, it relies less on inventory puzzles and more on specific choices made by the player. The game has an internal clock and requires the player to plan the protagonist's moves ahead in order to be in the right place at the right time. Dialogues with multiple choices are utilized as a gameplay tool; a wrong choice will often lead to a premature end of the adventure.
There are two side-scrolling action sequences in the game; both can be bypassed without penalty if the player character dies several times in a row. The Sega CD version does not allow the player to skip these sequences. In addition, it uses a different color palette with a greenish tint, and has voice-overs for the dialogues.
Spellings
- γ©γ€γΊ γͺγ γΆ γγ©γ΄γ³ ο½γγ¬γ€γγ»γγ³γΏγΌγ»γγΉγγͺγΌο½ - Japanese spelling
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Credits (DOS version)
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Development
Rise of the Dragon appears to have been coded in Turbo C++.
Messages
Messages hidden in the main executable:
Boy, am I tired. Better get some sleep in about an hour.You have chosen to run the game with only %s bytes of memory! You are on your own!(this is presumably when the user has decided to run the game without enough free DOS memory available)
References
- One of the patrons in the Pleasure dome is named "FU BAR".
- David Wolf makes an appearance outside the Pleasure Dome--he strolls past in a tuxedo if you wait long enough. (David Wolf was the main hero of Dynamix's earlier game David Wolf: Secret Agent.)
- In Heart of China, another game from Dynamix, if you talk to some people in Ho's bar, some people will say "Bahumat lives!". A reference to the main villain in Rise of the Dragon.
SEGA CD version
The Sega CD has automatically-converted graphics from the 256-color originals, but (probably due to the Sega's limited color palette and palette restrictions) everything has a green cast. Check screenshots for comparison. Also some things were cut from the game: an ammo clip besides a telephone, all but one strippers in the bar and a sequence in which the protagonist has sex.
Versions
Rise of the Dragon was released in two separate packages for the PC: A 256-color VGA/MCGA version that took up about 7 megabytes, and an EGA/CGA version that, understandably, took up half that size. The 16-color EGA version, on the other hand, has mostly redrawn graphics based on the 256-color originals.
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- November 1991 (Issue #88) β Special Award for Artistic Achievement
- November 1996 (15th Anniversary Issue) - #83 in the β150 Best Games of All Timeβ list
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) β #12 Most Innovative Computer Game
Information also contributed by PCGamer77
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- MobyGames ID: 98
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Trixter.
Amiga, SEGA CD added by POMAH. Windows added by Cavalary. Macintosh added by Terok Nor.
Additional contributors: Shoddyan, Sciere, martin jurgens, Patrick Bregger, Starbuck the Third, ZeTomes, Shankao, Kayburt.
Game added March 20th, 1999. Last modified February 22nd, 2023.