Cold Case Files

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $19.95

Features:

• Combine advancements in forensic science with old-fashioned detective work to crack unsolved homicides
• Review historical evidence of the case, interview people of interest, collect new evidence, perform lab work and more
• Connect seemingly unlinked pieces of information by strategically filling in the holes with information you uncover
• Bill Kurtis, the recognizable voice behind Cold Case Files, narrates throughout the game

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Save your money for a new CSI game [Posted on 2005-04-28]
This game is absolutely awful. I don't even know where to start. The graphics are completely uninspired and all the characters look alike. The only way you can tell the men and women characters apart besides hair length is from the voice talent. Both men and women have wide shoulders and hulking frames--it's quite off-putting to see that so little effort was put into character design. Second order of business--what's up with all the script typos? Activision should be absolutely mortified over the unprofessional amount of typos in this game. The game programmers/writers must have dropped out of school in the fourth grade for the script to be as bad as it is. There's no other excuse. In each case that you have to solve, you'll be able to spot at least 30 typos during the questioning of suspects or while reading item descriptions, evidence, etc. Actually, I found that playing 'find the typo' was way more fun than playing the actual game itself. As to the cases--they were pitifully easy. It took me approximately 45 minutes to solve every case. Then I downloaded the "bonus case" from the A&E website and it took me longer to download the file than it did to solve the case. All in all I would have to give this game a HUGE thumbs down and would recommend that no one ever buy a game made by any team at Activision if this is what their standards are. I too can only wish that I had read the reviews before I bought the game.

Too Short [Posted on 2005-07-25]
This game was entertaining, but it was way too short. I got through all of the cases in about three hours, faster if I wouldn't have been interrupted, but the cases were entertaining. I do recommend this game if you just want to fill up a a few hours, but not if you're looking for some intellectual stimulation.

Cold Case Files [Posted on 2005-09-15]
Very unhappy about this game. It was very easy not worth the money.

I'd give zero stars if possible. [Posted on 2005-11-23]
If you are a fan of this show and watch regularly you have already seen the solutions to each of these cases. A major disappointment. Go buy a CSI, L&O, heck even a Nancy Drew adventure game, it will challenge you way more than this waste of time.

Not a CSI game [Posted on 2005-12-10]
I thought it would be in the same vein as the CSI games when I bought it, and was very discipointed. I hate to admit it but I sometimes get a little stuck playing Nancy Drew games and need some help, and I finished this game in 30 minutes. It was SO easy a five year old could do it.

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