Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #819 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Empire
• Released on: 2008-10-31
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: 4.72" h x .79" w x 5.51" l,

Manufacturer's Description
You're a rookie detective - part of the Homicide Division. An aspiring model, Betsy Blake - the sister of your new partner - disappears. A loner is the prime suspect. But this case is a whole lot deeper than it first appears...Can you crack the cases the regular cops can't? And can you get to the bottom of the kidnapping that's all over the news?

Customer Reviews

Great point and click fun, with good plot and just the right learning/difficulty curve
I am, and always have been a fan of 'point and click' games. The idea of exploring an environment has great appeal to me. Unsolved Crimes is a great example of this genre. If you enjoyed the Phoenix Wright games (and also games like Hotel Dusk:Room 215, Another Code:Two Memories and many others) then this is the game for you.
You are a rookie cop in New York and your first assignment is your 'walkthrough' scenario where you must follow the clues to ascertain which of the three suspects is the killer of your victim. To do this, you must visit the murder scene, and click on various objects (such as the curtains, the window etc.) - any objects too far away you must move closer using the simple on screen controls (left, right, forward, back) and you can also closely examine evidence, view testimonies and suspect details. Once you have solved this (which may take a couple of attempts - it is not obvious who your 'killer' is) you can progress to the real crimes.
As expected, the 'real' crimes get progressively harder and require more thinking (each query you are faced with has a score rating to show how easy/difficult it is to solve) and you must be totally sure in your mind who your killer is before presenting your evidence to your police chief. The hardest part for me was trying to open a safe to look at it's contents and I must admit I nearly launched my DS across the room a couple of times, but perseverence is the key.
All in all, a great game, which is great fun to play, highly addictive and one you will probably return to play again (I usually give a game six months before returning to it to have another go - hopefully I have forgotten the outcome by then)

Disappointing
I was really excited about playing this game because I love Hotel Dusk, the Ace Attorney series and Trace Memory/Another Code, but I was horribly disappointed with it. If you like the aforementioned games, really do not get your hopes up about this one. It is horribly, horribly tacky and naff. The dialogue and music is cheesy and cringe-inducing, and the boring, bland characters have no depth to them whatsoever. "Unsolved Crimes" definitely lacks the atmosphere and artistic beauty of Hotel Dusk, and the humour and well-drawn characters of Ace Attorney.
The cases and characters in this game aren't explored sufficiently for you to be interested in the outcome. I really wanted to interview suspects and suchlike to get a feel for them but you don't even get to meet them- you just get told quotes that they had said in questioning. You get to explore a single room (the scene of the crime) and then decide whodunnit based on that. There are 8 cases but it seems quantity has been chosen over quality- I'd have rather had 3 or 4 games which were more detailed and in depth than 8 very short cases.
Don't buy this. Get Hotel Dusk instead. If you've already played Hotel Dusk, then replay it. Don't waste your money on Unsolved Crimes. It's truly awful.

Had real potential!
Like the other reviewers, I have played and really enjoyed Hotel Dusk and was hoping for more of the same. Certainly, Unsolved Crimes doesn't have the stylistic or atmospheric flair that Hotel Dusk does but I was enjoying solving the (quite easy) crimes ... UNTIL the second to last case. I had a feeling that this might happen- basically you have to do things in a very particular order or you just end of walking around a room. I had to go online to read a walkthrough and STILL ended up doing Case 11 FOUR times until it was in the right order, without my 'partner' chipping in with hints and stopping the flow of play. If you have to do things in a certain order then WHY does the game let you complete them out of order?!? Basically, I am venting ... but this game had the potential to be simple, uncomplicated fun and ended up with me wanting to throw my DS out of the window! As the others have said ... go and buy Hotel Dusk!