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Summary: 2**'s only because I Love "Law & Order." The CD? THE FREEZE
Review: Recently purchased this item since I am such a Law & Order fan, the idea of actually "trying to solve a case" via CD ROM would be fun, challenging, and worth the time, $$$ and effort, entertainment-wise. Yes, I have every compatible necessecity, so this is just my experience with this program. The program was easily installed, but once "the games began," it took forever and ever and ever for the game to move and navigate. Everything took too long to download, time "ticked" away to solve the case, but more time was spent waiting for images to display than for us to interact. And the kicker? Each attempt at the game (4x) ended by the entire system freezing without even getting 1/4 of the way through the game regardless of whether or not we "saved" each completed aspect of the game! We finally gave up and returned the game, because while the saving value of the CD ROM is that it is "Law & Order," if others have similar experiences to mine, this game is certainly not worth owning just for the name (unless one collects L&O goodies). Give it a try, by all means; and if one completes the game without incident, great! I hope it was fun!!!
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Summary: a blast!
Review: so cool - great animation, great story lines, and the voices ... amazing. so much fun to play!
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Summary: Technically flawed, boring plot
Review: Technically the game is a mess. Bugs, glitches and crashes plague the game from the beginning. The gameplay is horribly flawed and much of the game doesn't get right what other games have been doing right for 15 years. They use an FMV format but ditch live actors for bad pre-rendered models. The plot is boooring. Instead of the typical way things are presented in the show, the game is almost forcively telling you to think different people did the crime when it's obvious they did not. There is no investigation, you jump through hoops the designers laid out to force gameplay mechanics on a flimsy story. None of the charectors are intriguing, they all fall flat. Everything is cliche'd and it all screams third-rate.
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Summary: Cool game - just like the show.
Review: The best part about this game is the feeling you are working with the characters. The character voices are cool. The game is set up just like the show. The story was interesting, and it was cool that I didn't know what was coming next, just like the show. There were twists in the plot.
There isn't a lot of action or fast game play - its more about solving puzzles and figuring out the story. If you like doing that while watching the show, I think you'll like this game.
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Summary: A little disappointing
Review: The game is fun- I wish that there was more than 1 case on it though
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Summary: Constant Lock ups
Review: The game itself is great, graphics, sounds, and concept is just like the TV show. The major issue I have with it is the fact that it constanly locks up. I'm running a PIII 733, 512mb Ram, 32 mb Video Card, 16 mb Sound card, and don't have such problems with other games which require a higher minimum system requirement. Due to these technical issues I've encountered with the game, I have not been able to complete it. It becomes extremely fustrating, especially if you've got something and getting hotter and closer to cracking the case. If it wasn't for all this lock up, the game would be great. The game is worth 1 star, even if there was an option for no stars, it still is worth 1 the 1 star I gave it.
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Summary: Have yet to see if it does as it claims!
Review: The game, received as a gift last Christmas, has yet to see "the light of day" in my household. During the initial forty minute installation time, the disc "froze" resulting in an incomplete process. I'm glad my favorite TV detectives/lawyers don't operate this way. They'd never solve a case if they did. 'Couldn't give it ONE STAR because I'm such a devotee' of the series.
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Summary: Have yet to see if it does as it claims!
Review: The game, received as a gift last Christmas, has yet to see "the light of day" in my household. During the initial forty minute installation time, the disc "froze" resulting in an incomplete process. I'm glad my favorite TV detectives/lawyers don't operate this way. They'd never solve a case if they did. 'Couldn't give it ONE STAR because I'm such a devotee' of the series.
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Summary: Good game for L&O fans
Review: The only problem I have had with this game is the fact that I am apparently too dimwitted to solve the case in time!! It's been challenging,but that's okay with me.
As for the performance of the game itself? I am running Windows XP,on a 1.8 P4,w/256 RAM. The game installed quickly,and has run flawlessly.
So..if you don't have hardware problems,and are a fan of L&O,and love to figure out "who done its,"this is the game for you.
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Summary: A great idea but some flaws in implementation
Review: This computer game is based on the popular TV series. The gameplay does a good job of having you feel like you're in an exciting episode of the show. The characters and voices are right from the TV show, so you really feel like you're part of the action. You head out to the crime scene - a woman was killed while jogging in Central Park. You search the scene for evidence, and then start talking to various suspects. You can choose your strengths, so you can know which questions not to ask, or you can get help finding evidence by having them highlighted. You have your crime lab and research lab examine evidence, and your surveillance team watches the people. As you find more clues, you track down more people to talk to. Get enough evidence, and you can request a search warrant, and eventually accuse someone of the crime. That's when things get turned over to the lawyers. Now you try to prosecute this criminal, calling witnesses, discussing evidence, objecting to bad questioning. If you do a good enough job, you can nail the perpetrator! The game definitely draws you along, You eagerly await the results of the tests you request, and wonder what the people you are talking to are hiding. You have an inkling of what you are looking for, and dig around until you track it down. On the downside, the game is extremely single-threaded. The only way you can talk to person X is to investigate item Y - but you have no idea that it's item Y you need to submit out of the 50+ items you find at the scene. You can't carry them all, and you get scolded for picking up each item or submitting too many to evaluate. Where in a normal crime scene you'd figure the crew would gather up all evidence and sift it for you, here you get deducted moments for each "thing" on the ground (you don't know what it is until you pick it up) you even look at! So it almost forces you to play each half of the game many times - a few times to figure out what all the items *are* and which are important, and then a last time to actually just touch the items you now know "by osmosis" are important to your case. The same is true during questioning of various people - questions that seem to be quite related end up causing the person not to answer questions that you actually need. They randomly decide at a point not to talk to you further - even if you have more questions for them. For example, a cleaner has his cart parked on a key point of evidence. But ask him the wrong questions and you cannot ask him to move his cart, even though he's still standing right there! Finally, even though I use my system for many, many games of all types, this one crashed on me very frequently. It just meant even more frequent saves and restores, beyond what the gameplay already forced on you through its single-mindedness. Recommended to a fan of the show, and a great concept. Hopefully future releases will address some of these issues and give the game more open gameplay, as in real world detecting.
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