Flash Traffic: City of Angels

Flash Traffic: City of Angels is a game developed by Tsunami Games and published by Time Warner Interactive for DOS systems in 1994.

Gameplay

When a scene ends, players are given three choices on how to proceed. They impact the story and gameplay, but the wrong choice does not usually end the game. Some choices can result in the player's death.

Plot

Drug Enforcement Administration agents hit a warehouse, where they kill two people and arrest three suspects. They believed the warehouse only contained drugs, but find the materials to make a nuclear bomb. The player is tasked to find out who made the bomb, retrieve it and defuse it before it destroys the Northern Hemisphere.

Release

Tsunami Games debuted the game at COMDEX in November 1994.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly rated it C+: "An uninspiring script and so-so acting make Flash Traffic play like a direct-to-video cheapie with a multiple-personality disorder." Stephen Manes of The New York Times called it "stronger on acting and dialogue than on plot". Manes said some choices do not seem to affect the plot, making it unsatisfying.