![]() The Xbox title features all ten cases from the original CSI and Dark Motives, while CSI: Miami on the PC does all that and a bit more. ![]() The CSI titles are first-person adventures which involve solving mysteries by examining crime scenes thoroughly, questioning witnesses and analysing evidence using all sorts of exotic forensic technology. The PC and Xbox titles will retail for 20 and 30 quid respectively. On the PC, there's CSI: Miami, which we're guessing is a Miami-based spin-off of the original show (we don't watch it, so we wouldn't know), while Xbox owners can look forward to a CSI title combining the contents of both previous PC titles - the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and CSI: Dark Motives. Still, only fans of the TV series will probably feel their money was well spent as hardcore gamers will feel like it was finished before it was started.Ubisoft is preparing to release a pair of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titles this November. Keep in mind this type of game isn't dependent on graphic quality but eye candy always helps keep a game interesting.Įven though the game may be completed quicker then most, its price of $30 helps to overcome its main drawback. The graphics could have been much better as well and definitely won't impress as it's missing detail and is far from anything eye-popping. Even if you do get stuck, simply trying the various collection tools at your disposal will lead you to the next piece of evidence rather quickly. Most will easily finish the game with little difficulty as the linear style of the game makes the puzzles simple and require little thought to figure out. The problem is the game moves at an unreal rate and is extremely easy to get through. In addition, the interface used to move through crime scenes is amazingly intuitive, and although there are numerous tools to use and evidence to collect, it's easy to work with and it keeps the game moving along nicely. The story lines are also well designed and unfold in a manner that keeps you pushing forward until the case is solved. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, CSI also fall into this category and although CSI does stay true to the TV series, a number of elements holds the game back from its true potential.ĬSI does produce an authentic CSI experience including the actual characters and their voices from the TV series. Transferring that success to a video game however has historically been a difficult challenge as many developers end up relying on the license to sell the game instead of the gameplay. Solving murders using various high tech and low tech methods, many watch faithfully each week as evidence is extracted from the most unlikely sources. The whole thing's about as free-roaming as a man in a straightjacket locked in a padded cell, and about as fast moving as a glacier.ĬSI has made quite a name for itself as a solid TV series taking crime scene investigators through different murder mysteries. Locations are bland and static -click on something to look at it, click on someone to talk to them. It's like a survival horror game stripped of everything bar the cut-scenes and puzzles. Interrogations are simply a matter of exhausting the supplied question options, and every shred of evidence has to be correctly inspected using the appropriate piece of equipment to find the next clue. Full marks for doing something different, but it doesn't hang together as an enthralling game experience. The 'evidence trinity' of suspect, victim and location is complete, you swoop in for the arrest. With your evidence safely zip-locked it's off to the morgue or labs for analysis, and once you've got what you need and Looking for fingerprints? Spray some Ninhydrin around the place. Notice a suspicious looking substance on the corpse's trousers? Take a swab. There's no action, and instead you visit locations to talk to suspects and gather evidence. Which initially leads to some interesting gaming. But when you're emulating TV's favourite forensic whodunit, what other choice have you got?ĬSI: Miami is a show where a bunch of struggling actors solve crimes across South Florida with a mixture of old-fashioned detective work and newfangled forensics. Sifting through a pile of puke with a pair of tweezers and then analysing the hair found therein by means of microscopy is not, under normal circumstances, the stuff of an enthralling game.
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