Miss Spell of "GamePro" praised the graphics, voice acting and hand-to-hand combat. However, the game's stealth mode was described as "comically maddening", and logical errors, such as Max's ability to jump seven feet-high despite her inability to climb over a knee high fence, were also discussed. The review concluded that it "isn't a bad game, but it's not a really good game either, it's caught somewhere in between, struggling for a clear identity." Duke Ferris of Game Revolution said, "It's not that "Dark Angel" is brutally awful or full of bugs ... it's that it lacks any originality whatsoever. It's a boring, repetitive cookie-cutter game straight from the Nabisco ovens. You've eaten this cookie many times before; and if you're old enough, the first time it was called "Streets of Rage"."