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Gameplay

The game is a detective

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set in the 1940s and combined live action cinematic's with pre-rendered point-and-click gameplay much like previous games in the genre like ''

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''. The live action was produced by Vixen Films, director Jo Lane, and was at the time the largest multimedia production ever made in Australia. The game is nonlinear, having nine possible endings featuring over thirty fully acted and voiced characters to interact with and over one hour of fully performed cinematics.

Plot

Innocent-looking dame Carol Klein hires down-on-his-luck hardboiled private dick Scott Anger to find her brother, since she hasn't heard from him for some time. Anger learns that his case is connected to some murders and a bank robbery.

Reception

A reviewer for ''

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'' panned the game, citing the use of still shots instead of FMV for most of the character interactions, the low difficulty, and the "cheesy, ersatz Maltese Falcon story". He scored it one out of five stars. Scott Gehrs of ''

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'' wrote, "''The Dame Was Loaded'' has an interesting premise, but unfortunately I can't recommend it even to mystery lovers". Quandary wrote "In the end, the real time nature of the game prevented me from enjoying this outing...Timed puzzles are anathema to many adventure players".

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dame Was Loaded, The 1996 video games Beam Software games DOS games Adventure games Piko Interactive games Interactive movie video games Video games developed in Australia Cancelled CD-i games Detective video games Single-player video games