Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1362 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2009-01-30
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: Unknown format

Customer Reviews

Its like they have gone backwards.
Had this been the first in the CSI game series, it would have been OK. But as the newest of the series I was extremely disappointed. I was expecting much much more from this. Gone is the toolbag where you choose what to use to test a finding. Most of the graphics have become cartoons rather than more realistic scenes. When you turn up at a scene you have to collect a number of items, but don't know what they are until a fuzzy black and white picture appear below. Most are completely irrelevant to the game. Unlike previous games, you don't take everything back to the lab to check it yourself. A couple of items are checked and the method is quite boring. For example, if you find a finger print, you get a screen with the print on and have to find three separate pieces of it out of a possible nine. Collecting blood is not merely getting a swab, you have to draw a line around it - if you are not accurate enough, you have to start again. In the lab, to check the DNA, you end up sorting out strands into separate boxes with a pair of tweezers leaving only one which is different from the others. Same with any fluids. Checking addresses is boring. You just draw a line from the company logo to the name typed out. I miss being able to search a crime scene, test everything for fingerprints or fluids.
Highly unsatisfying and comes across as cheaply made.

Overpriced and Huge Disappointment
What have they done ?

This is not CSI as we know it.

I thought I had bought a really old version of the game by mistake.

The 'charcters' don't move, the 'clues' are random and irrelevant and the 'animation scenes' reminded me of watching Ivor the Engine.

AND its all automatic, there are no choices about who to talk to next or whether to go to the morgue or the SOC or the lab etc...

The dialogue was also bizarre, some of the vocab was really weird and you had to read the sub titles to understand what the characters were saying and even then it was sometimes a struggle.

As for the 'puzzles', even I (the biggest fan of walkthrough) managed them without any problems, absolute child's play.

The fifth case wasn't even included as it is yet to be released online.

I'm all confused, why have they done this, I feel swizzed.

BRING BACK BRASS ! BRING BACK DOC ROBBINS ! SACK THE NEW DESIGNERS !

CSI becomes child's play
I have justed wasted £15 on a CSI game that is so far removed from any other CSI point-and-click that I feel duped.

The 3D graphics make way for laughable bold-outlined cartoons, evidence collection becomes a child's task of finding odd items in odd places (spectacles in the bin, sticker on a sign post) and any kind of skill in detective work is inexplicably removed by simply having to click on underlined parts of the subtitles.

Any forensic task is explained for you in pop-up windows. But before, say, you can swab a sample of blood, you have to play an inane game of outlining the sample first.

You are led by the hand to different scenes, not letting you think for yourself.

It's become a child's game, and it's left me frustrated and above all fuming.