Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3377 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-10-04
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description:
CSI: Hard Evidence continues the crime-solving experience of Ubisoft’s CSI video game series. Players join Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and the rest of the Las Vegas cast to help solve crimes using realistic techniques and lab equipment. CSI: Hard Evidence features forensic reconstructions and atmospheric crime scenes taken directly from the television show, including an all-new garage lab for analyzing large evidence such as cars and boats, improved evidence gathering, review and lab mini-games, and more areas to explore, resulting in longer play experiences.

CSI: Hard Evidence is a whole new game that’s all about the evidence and even more like the show, giving fans the experience of being part of the CSI Vegas team. CSI: Hard Evidence includes multiple methods of evidence recovery, crime reconstructions, and all-new high-tech forensic gadgets so fans can feel like real crime scene investigators.

Customer Reviews

Seems to have been one on the very cheap which is a bit annoying, otherwise great.
I have loved the CSI series games, played them all, and as any other fan of this game series I love the new crimes to solve.

I'm about half way through I guess and I have to say the in your face advertising is really starting to TICK ME OFF!!! only re-enforces the feeling this game was made very cheaply with too much focus on spending as little as possible whilst trying to get as much as possible.
Biggest cheap feeling is the visuals. Very low quality film clips that are very ugly. I would say I think I remember the clips in the previous game being much better. Visuals I think remember being much better too.
Coupled with the fact that some bug in the game blocks my computer from running in 'high' quality mode (quite a high spec PC so annoying) even when on another PC that will its ugly even in high quality. Non of its pre-rendered scenes now. Its all 3D environments with objects/evidence in this virtual world that have to explore and find. I know graphics isn't the focus of this game and I haven't criticized the previous games because it wasn't a problem but in this case it looks worse than before and given your spending all the time looking at it exploring and searching for clues, the the poor visuals a couple of times made it a little difficult/unpleasant. Looks like a PS2 game or worse.

If/once you get past those affronts its a decent game and I could recommend it to anyone who enjoys these games.
Number of improvements have been made making it even more fluid gathering and processing evidence.
Does seem there more evidence and locations to go through with even more evidence types to go through making a bit more enjoyable too. Crimes seem quite good so far.
Voice acting is nothing particularly special but never really has been. Fortunately its not bad and I'd say better than others.

Brilliant PC game
I have all the CSI pc games so far. My son bought me the first one for christmas a couple of years ago and I'm hooked, buying each one as soon as it comes out. Each new game that is released has improvements from the last one. You do get involved in the game and if you're anything like me and don't get 100% you go back in and do the whole game again. It's exciting finding a new SOC to look around and see what you can find. You do lose points in your evaluation if you ask your pc buddy for a hint about the game. However, I've learned that in some situations, the question you are about to ask them is enough to point you in the directin of where you need to look. I would really recommend these games. Each release has 5 crimes for you to solve, each one different and imaginative. This latest release is no different from the rest. Highly addictive but I didn't notice any major advances in the game. They also suggested that the games are designed to take longer to solve than previous games. I didn't find that either but nevertheless still worth the money spent on it.

Not as good
I was slightly disappointed by this latest installation in the CSI series. Having played and enjoyed the previous games I found Hard Evidence did not live up to my expectations. First of all, the quality of graphics seems to have dropped, (Nick in particular is very badly portrayed and Dr Robbins is quite sinister looking). In addition to this, the blatant advertising in practically every scene got really irritating really fast; I was at a loss to understand why Brass had to mention 'the good people' at Visa in the fourth case. Finally, I am used to the final case in CSI games being the hardest and most complicated one to solve and usually the most satisfying. For some reason this was not true of Hard Evidence. Whilst sticking to the tradition of tying in previous cases to the finale (though only one unfortunately), it was simply not as challenging. I found that I completed it much faster than the other cases and easily gained the Master level without really having to concentrate.
Having said all this Hard Evidence, whilst not the best of the bunch, was worth playing if only because it is always fun to 'work' alongside the Vegas CSI'. The bug hunt was a nice little diversion, though I thought we'd get some sort of extra bonus for finding all of them like you do for mastering all the levels. Overall, Hard Evidence is good, just not as good as I had hoped.