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Summary: Great game, bad bug.
Review: I am a CSI freak so when this game came out I was so happy. That was until I installed it and "the bug" appeared. I was soooo frustrated after having to start and restart the game. I went online to UBISoft's website, found the patch and downloaded it. After I installed the patch I haven't had any problems. Nada. It runs smooth and perfect. The only thing is that after doing a full install I still have to use a CD. I thought that the purpose of a full install is to run the game directly from your hard drive. DUH. Anyway, after I fixed the bug I had no problem. The game is fun, graphics are okay. Shame on UBISoft for not releasing a bug free version. I see that it's ticking many people off. I hope they release a new one, bug-free, with more cases. Oh, and one more thing, Nick Stokes is a hottie on the show and the character on the game is yucky looking...they can try to improve on that!!
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Summary: What a great game!
Review: I am a huge fan of adventure games, and I have never played a game quite like this before. It is very graphic, but awesome. I played it for 5 hours straight and didn't realize it. What an interesting game! I didn't have any bug problems at all.
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Summary: Must be me but this game was great!
Review: I dont know about the other reviewers, but this game was not nearly as buggy for me as they claim. Granted I'm running an older system 600Mhz processor, 300mb RAM, Windows 98, might be the difference I dont know. Yes the game crashed on me. 3 times in over 12 hours of gameplay. I consider that to be pretty average for my system, so I cannot say its the game or my computer. But the game did not wreck havok with my PC as others are claiming happened to them. It did seem a little jumpy when it was about to crash and I learned how to recognize that, and simply rebooted my computer to reset the free memory available. In a game as graphicly detailed as this one, it will chew up a lot of memory. I did install the Ubisoft patch as well as did a full install if this helps anyone with crashing issues. I did find that doing frequent Alt-Tabs to view online strategy guides for this game did increase the amount of game crashing... perhaps a little less flipping around might also resolve this issue. Some parts of this game were quite dark too, at times a little too dark, but it was still playable.Now onto the game itself and not its bugs. The graphics were an improvement over the previous CSI game. Far more detail in the environments and the changescene movies. The lips on the speaking characters were not in sync with the dialogue, but it wasnt detracting from gameplay. I also liked that you could investigate something after you've collected it, something that could keep you from completing your mission in the other game. I liked also that instead of Greg telling you when things match up, you have to figure it out for yourself. Makes the game a little more challenging. The cases you work are definitely more intensive than the last games were. The first case is by no means easy and the last is downright hard. Also some nice references to the previous game are mentioned if you keep your eyes and ears out. I like when games recognize there was a previous version and make references for those who've played the previous game. I also liked how one could not get a warrant to investigate something unless every piece was in place. But sometimes the hints Brass gave were a little too leading. I also loved that you could look at the autopsied bodies rather than having Dr Robins just spoonfeed you everything. Also in this game it sometimes requires multiple trips to different locations and multiple interviews which makes this game far more challenging than the previous version. Also if you played the previous version, you may notice a similarity in voices for your suspects, not sure if this was intentional or not, but sometimes I had visions of the previous versions characters. All in all I could comfortable recommend buying this game. Its not terribly long to get all the way through without hints, and even with hints it will take well over 8 hours to complete. So good for a rainy weekend of CSI fun
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Summary: A real bummer for the money paid.
Review: I have to say that what I have gotten to play of this game I am so happy with. However my game is stuck on the first case. Apparently it is a BUG in the game. I need to integrate a suspect for the second time and yet it will not let me ask her any questions I have quit and restarted so many times I can't remember. I even started another game and I am once again stuck in the same spot. It is a real bummer that I have only got to play half way through the first level and now I have to wait till UBI decides they want to make a patch to fix all the problems. Until then my game sits installed on my computer but I can not play it. LOADS of FUN!!! Yea RIGHT!
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Summary: Very Disappointed with UBISOFT
Review: I have to totally agree with "hamletedg" from Sherman Oaks, CA.
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Summary: Very Disappointed with UBISOFT
Review: I have to totally agree with "hamletedg" from Sherman Oaks, CA.
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Summary: Highly anticipating CSI 2!!!!
Review: I loved the first one and I didn't have any problems with it. I have a CDRW drive.
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Summary: Spend your money elsewhere
Review: I played this game for a total of 45 minutes, then returned it to the store for a refund. The flow of the game is very klunky -- the narrator keeps repeating the same instructions over and over again. There is no ability to move around in the environments. Then, to top it all off, it crashed my PC. Very poor quality. I can't believe a software manufacturer would have allowed this junk to go out the door. Buy something else -- ANYTHING else. I guarantee you'll have more fun.
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Summary: BUYERS BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I purchased CSI and played through the entire game with no problems, or so I thought. I could never achieve a 100% on the games. I later dl-ed a walk through and did everything I should... still the game wouldn't let me get a hundred on one case... the company called it a bug, and download their patch- that didn't help!
I tried to play CSI DARKMOTIVES... the game came to a complete halt on the first person I spoke with in the game-it locked up! I uninstalled it and reinstalled it thinking it was me or the computer again I tried to play the game and the same thing happened. I went online to see that many people were having problems and didn't even get through the first case. I later uninstalled then reinstalled it causing more problems even after going to their website and getting a patch for the game it never ran or helped! I exchanged it for a new one and again the same thing happened. Evidence couldn't be collected, pieces of evidence you did collect disappeared, you couldn't talk to people and things started to lock up... and my computer is brand new....
My fiancé found both games in one for the Xbox low price of 19.99 thinking it was wonderful and I would finally get to play... nope! What do you know.... again the things had problems I couldn't get through the first case with out it locking up and having problems. I couldn't collect evidence even locked up my X-box twice once it tried to not let me have the CD back.....I have to try to battle to take it back.
I STRONGLY ADVISE DO NOT PURCHASE ANY GAMES BEFORE YOU ARE SURE THEY HAVE NO GLITCHES THERE ARE TO MANY. I found it is too much of a hassle trying to get the companies to take these games back because they were opened and of coarse no one knows of any problems with the games! Go figure... UBSOFT should do something more for the buyers like us that got burned. I drove out of my way hours to the nearest store to exchange thinking it was sold out... they aren't sold out they are all being returned and exchanged!
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Summary: More bugs then at a picnic of ants!
Review: If everyone has the same problem with a game, that's a bug. You shouldn't have to play a game 9 times to get through it. I've had characters disappear on screen, not be able to interogate witnesses, evidence be collected, and then disappear. Ubisoft (the games manufacturer) says it is a noted problem, but the patch they gave does not work, for all the problems. I feel that they rushed this game out to capitalize on the past success of the previous game. Time between announcement of release and release was a scanty 6 months. Is that enough time to put out a quality computer game? Also I had one other complaint about the game. Now it wants the CD in the disk drive for it to work, and it doesn't matter which cd. In the previous version, you could do a full install and not need the cd for it to run, which I thought was a definite plus. So wait for a unbugged version, or get the original version, which even though it was short, it worked. Don't waste your time or money on this. I was extremely disappointed, as I love CSI.
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