8.2 /10 1 Votes
7.5/10 IGN Genre Shooter game Platforms PlayStation, Sega Saturn | 4.4/5 Emuparadise Initial release date 1996 Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date(s) PlayStation
NA: September 30, 1996
JP: December 27, 1996
EU: February 1997
Saturn
NA: 1996
JP: April 25, 1997
EU: 1997 Developers Black Ops Entertainment, Point of View, Inc. Publishers Virgin Interactive, Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. Similar Virgin Interactive games, Shooter games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Dawn is a helicopter-combat simulation, published by Virgin Interactive. It was released on the Sony PlayStation in 1996, and the Sega Saturn in 1997.
Contents
Story
Set in 1998, the player controls a helicopter ace recruited into a black ops counterterrorism strike force named Operation Black Dawn. The player pilots the agile AH-69 Mohawk, an advanced combat helicopter with a powerful arsenal of weaponry.
Gameplay
The game consists of seven campaigns that take place in different areas, and each campaign has a number of different missions. In addition to search-and-destroy objectives, there are hostages that require saving. The game has drawn comparisons with Soviet Strike, another helicopter simulator released in the same year. However, Black Dawn resembles an arcade game rather than a typical simulator, not least because various power-ups are obtained from destroyed enemies.
The soundtrack was originally composed by Tommy Tallarico.
Legacy
The "Action Theme" background music was used in Sonic and the Black Knight, a 2009 video game for the Wii. It was rearranged and used as the background music for the "Molten Mine" Stage.