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Summary: CSI: Crime Scene
Review: Good game great graphics and interaction with the characters of the show. If you are familiar with the show you should breeze right through the game. There is no nudity or bad language but some of the cases can be suggestive. If you are looking for blood and guts you will be disappointed. I was a little disappointed that the bonus is just a bunch of comic drawings. I think that the game is a little pricey for what you get.
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Summary: Pleasing but look forward to improved version
Review: Absolutely love the show; was so excited to find the game. In fact, couldn't wait for Amazon to ship it but had to find it in a local store! Quite easy to load and fairly easy to play; in fact fairly easy to solve all the mysteries (although I have yet to solve them all with 100% of evidence located/analyzed).Disappointments include the fact that it is quite boring to go back and "resolve" a case to try for a better score on evidence location/analysis; nothing about the story changes so you repeat all you've done previously. Also, the hyped and promised extra materials they show you (dependent upon how well you solved the crime) is not noteworthy at all! The fun stuff is the terrific graphics and the fun in interacting with familiar characters (who look and sound quite good; my favorite is Brass - he's hilarious). The game is definitely worth a few hours of fun but unfortunately not hours and hours of fun.
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Summary: Simply Not Like Watching The Show
Review: I love CSI. Only non-cable TV I watch. Including CSI Miami even though I find Horatio to be annoying and the gentleman to be a horrible actor ("Horatio here. Uh-huh... yeah... gotcha..." every dang episode on that dang cell phone). I bought the game expecting it to be more difficult, more intricate, rather than a point and click environment. The ability to think about a crime and actually investigate it in regards to drawing your own conclusions is not what this game is about. It's about finding the right spots to click on, the right tool to use (very easily done, by the way), and the right time to annoy the Brass. I ran through the game and solved all 5 cases without problem the first day I purchased it. This includes listening to all the conversations, watching all the movie scenes, which were often taken from the show or very blurred out and poorly rendered CGI sequences. While the game is not hard to win, it was harder to find the right sequence of events and collection of evidence to get 100% on all the cases. It wasn't an act of intelligence, but one of futility. If you're a huge fan of CSI and just want a little bit of CSI action outside of the show, I would consider the game, but not for much more than the fan-related atmosphere. It doesn't pose much in the way of challenging your ability to relate one form of evidence to another and often times hands you the case on a silver platter. What could really make the game enjoyable is if there were plans to add downloadable cases to the game for free from the Ubi web site (http://www.ubi.com) for free. But, as with many games, this is a print, box, sell, and forget about game. Don't hold your breath. As for a run down of the game: You are a rookie with the LVPD Crime Lab. Working with each of TV CSI persons, including my favorite Greg (hey, I recognize the angst of a fellow geek with inate ability to be socially active while also socially misunderstood) who is detrimental in all stages of each case. You work on a total of 5 cases, with the last one being the most important and most annoying if you miss that one piece of evidence. You get rated on each case by your ability to find each piece of evidence (hence the click portion of the game) and how often you don't ask for help (should be easy to never have to do this). If you get Investigator on each case, you get 6 out of 10 sketches to view (ie bonus material), if you get 100% rating, you get all 10 sketches. If you get 100% on all of them, you get an extra bonus item. I never had the time and want to run through all the cases again just for the extra 3% I needed in case#5 to warrant this worthwhile.
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Summary: Promising game, but tedious and disappointing
Review: When I first heard about the release of this game, I thought that a crime solving game would be a refreshing idea and make a promising game. I've never seen the show so I can't bias myself and find the game more enjoyable than it really was. To state it simply the graphics of the game were disappointing compaired to the graphics of recent releases. The graphics sort of reminded me of Playstation 1 graphics. The gameplay was tedious and limiting. There is little to nonexistent movement in the game. The player is limited to a first person, stationary, view with any movement being that of rotating in a 360 degree angle. Finding clues and evidence is a tedious exercise of moving your mouse back and forth over every area of the "crime scene". And like everyone has already commented the game is very short for a 3 CD game. I finished it it less than 4 hours. I would have appreciated the game more if more movement was allowed in the game. Like actually walking around the rooms and trying to find clues instead of a stationary position with limited zooming angles.
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Summary: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Review: Very excellent game. Not too difficult to learn or play and still challenging. I highly recommend it. I will defintely purchase the sequel if UBI releases another episode.
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Summary: Exciting!!
Review: When I saw this game advertised, I couldn't wait for it to be released. In my opinion, it was certainly my moneys' worth! The graphics are terrific and the stories are very cool. Your actually part of the show. I like the idea of lending a hand in solving the mysteries, especially "whodunnits" like this!! The only concern I had was that there were only 5 cases to solve. I think they should of had at least 10 total. That would of been sufficient, I think. However these cases are challenging so far. (I just complete case #2) Prehaps an expansion will surface in the future. Be that as it may, however, it's definitely fun.
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Summary: Enjoyable yet quick
Review: You're the latest probie with Las Vegas Criminalistics, shoved right into the middle of things straight off the bat when Grissom gets a call on a murder vic in some sleazy off-Strip flophouse hotel. Each case pairs you up with a different member of the gang (all voiced by the original actors, with Greg in the lab, Dr. Robbins in the morgue, and Brass giving you legal help and good one-liners), ranging from murders to arson to kidnapping, some of which gel together at the end. I managed to tear through it in little over a weekend, partially because you don't need to amass all of the available evidence in each case to get an arrest--although getting all of it without asking for hints from your partner unlocks the complete inventory of preliminary character sketches and storyboard artwork. Still, I'm waiting on any expansion packs they may develop for it, as well as a CSI: MIAMI version of the game.
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Summary: Very good game, little quirky though
Review: If you're a []fan of CSI, this game is a must. The characters voices are the real CSI voices and even their little quirks are the same (look for lots of Greg-isms). I think the renderings of Sarah and Warrick are the best. The cases are complex and will take some time to solve. The first case gives you a brief tutorial on how everything works, and you do get hints from your partner so you dont have the chance of getting any irrelavent evidence (like if you use a glove instead of tweezers). You do have the option of asking your partner for hints on how to proceed if you get stuck. This game is definitely not linear in your approach like with real CSI work. Sometimes you'll need to return to the scene of the crime, analyze evidence twice and even re-interrogate witnesses. Each game is progressively longer and more complicated. Your first game will take probably 45 minutes if you're an experienced logic game player, and longer if you're not used to trying to mouse over everything and clicking on every inch of the screen. I do concur with a previous reviewer that some of the scenes are dark, very dark and I would have killed for a flashlight option (the UV light does come in handy at times for this however) and you can miss some important clues if you're not careful. The final case took well over 3 hours for me to complete with no breaks or interruptions. I'd love for them to make more of this game because its very realistic. Now for the downside and thus my 4 stars. This game eats memory. If you do a full install of this game, you're looking at 1.5 gigs of space taken up on your hard drive. The 3 CD's will not be necessary then (kind of nice not to have to switch through 3 CD's) which I like (except for the associated piracy risks this holds). A patch from Ubisoft is available for this game and is necessary to remove some of the quirks but it wont erase the associated memory eating. After about 1.5 cases and on the last case, your computer will starve for memory. I had to restart my computer no less than 7-8 times during the entire gameplay. I have a pretty powerful system as well with an 80 gig hard drive 1.5 gigs of memory an ATI Radeon video card, and a Pentium 4 processor running windows 98 (personal problem with XP). The sound was also a bit choppy on my Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card. This did not detract from my enjoyment of this game much, but I would have liked having smooth audio and smoother graphics. Dont get me wrong the graphics and sound were authentic and great, but choppy. Sometimes when the memory started to starve, I'd get Director errors or when visiting a certain location, whole frames of another location would pop up. Most of my problems occurred while at Greg's lab and on the final case. The game does autosave so even if you do crash during this game, you wont have to worry too much about losing all the hard work you did on the case. The bonus material is nice, but nothing to write home to mom about. Kind of reminds me of bonus material on DVD's. I would have liked another case rather than the trivial material provided (I dont want to spoil things here). The game does challenge you to be very thorough and you can replay the levels for a better score. All in all this game is worth the money spent and is a must for a CSI fan or even a forensics fan.
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Summary: FANTASTIC, good forensic science starter game.....
Review: I am on the third case on this game and absolutely love it. I watch all of the forensic science shows on TV, fictional and non-fiction and this game is pretty accurate as far as crime scene investigation. I don't feel it is too easy at all like some of the other gamers suggest. In fact I have been stuck several dozen times, I am not a big gamer but liked this subject so much I thought I would purchase it. I'm glad I did, will keep the game and play it over and over to try and get 100 percent accuracy on all games, then give it to family to have them play and learn. Good learning tool. Buy it,,,you won't be sorry!
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Summary: CSI
Review: I was so excited when this game came out because I love the show. The graphics and voice overs are amazing. As for actual game play it was a little disappointing. First the three first crimes that you are to investigate are pretty easy. I thought that was ok since it is a new game and one needs to get used to what to look for. However, I felt there was no continuity in that logic when I played the fourth one. This jumped from being really easy to a brick wall in seconds. Also, I noticed that if you do not follow the games script to a tee, then you will not get a perfect score. I found this a little frustrating since everyone has different ways to figure things out. I would love to see another one of these games but hopefully next time the cases gradually get harder and there are different ways to get the same results. It was a good first edition.
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