CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $5.05

Features:

• Travel through the dark, seedy side of Las Vegas, as you work alongside Grissom, Catherine and the rest of the CSI team in this thrilling first-person adventure
• Put your thinking skills to the test as you question witnesses and examine crime scenes
• Analyze evidence you collect utilizing the latest in forensic equipment
• Five crimes to investigate and solve
• Realistic crime scenes and voiceovers by actual cast members -- you'll feel like you're in an actual episode of CSI!

Accessories:
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Customer Reviews:

Entertaining Overall, but Needs Some Improvements [Posted on 2006-12-29]
There are 5 cases included in this game. The first few are a breeze, with the first almost like a tutorial. Each cases takes about 30 minutes to an hour (or a little over) to complete. The last case is the hardest and ties into a few of the other cases, which is a nice challenge and a sweet twist.

Basically, throughout each case, you have to examine different locations and crime scenes and pick up any evidence that you find. Then you go to the lab and either ask Greg to analyze the evidence for you or you use the computer or microscope to search/compare fingerprints, tire treads, molds, and threads etc. You interrogate people and ask Al at the morgue if there's a dead body involved and Jim at the Law Office to get warrants for anything.

The problem with this is that there's not much interaction going on. You are, at no time, in imminent danger and there is no time limit. You simply find things and ask others to examine them or use automatic computers to do it for you. It's not a hard game. The only challenge is finding all of the evidence. If you don't find all of the evidence, your evaluation score at the end of each case goes down. Players can challenge themselves by replaying each case until they have achieved "Master Status" -- which is really the only challenge this game provides.

So in other words, it's a fun challenge for a few hours (or days, depending on how many breaks you want to take), but a little short and too straightforward.

Some other downsides:

- It's annoying to have to switch between the 3 discs as you enter/exit the game and switch cases.
- Whenever you go to the lab, you have to wait for Greg to turn around before you can move or do anything. It's only a few seconds, but it's annoying when you're eager to get something done.
- There are some bugs in the game and it lags sometimes, even though my computer is pretty decent and I have played other games on here before.

Aside from all of that, the graphics are pretty good and the interface is user friendly. Rookies won't struggle with the game and advanced players will have fun killing some time -- it just doesn't last forever.

CSI  [Posted on 2007-01-11]
I have not been able to play this game very much because I am stuck in the second crime and they do not have sufficient help to get me unstuck so consequently I have played it very little.

CSI for begining gamers [Posted on 2007-02-07]
I am a retired person just learning to use the computer for games. I tried a few of the new ones and couldn't do them. Very frustrating. This game is easy enough to follow and solve, yet not too easy to be considered boring. I wish that there were more games on this level.

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [Posted on 2007-03-09]
This game is awesome. I really liked it. i like being the CSI. It is a real cool game.

this was a present for a 10yr old [Posted on 2007-12-30]
My son is having fun with this game. It was shipped to my home in a timely matter. I ordered this right before christmas and it got here before I could start to worry about it. THanks

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