Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 0823162005405 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: Ubisoft Manufacturer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: March 25, 2003 Sales Rank: 9891 Studio: Ubisoft
Features:
Travel through the dark, seedy side of Las Vegas, as you work alongside Grissom, Catherine and the rest of the CSI team in this thrilling first-person adventure
Put your thinking skills to the test as you question witnesses and examine crime scenes
Analyze evidence you collect utilizing the latest in forensic equipment
Five crimes to investigate and solve
Realistic crime scenes and voiceovers by actual cast members -- you'll feel like you're in an actual episode of CSI!
Product Description: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation puts your nerves and intellect to the test as you become a member of the CSI team!
Amazon.com Review: CSI comes to life on your PC with all the cyber-Sherlock Holmes appeal fans know and love. The high production value of the game and its faithful adherence to the theme, style, and sound of the show prove that it is not just a crass attempt to cash in on the CSI craze.
As you'd expect, CSI is a mystery adventure game that follows the format of the CSI show. You collect evidence, head to the lab, visit the morgue and so on. You scrutinize the game's screens, looking for evidence or areas that may contain hidden clues. You can use Luminal to find blood traces, you can dust for prints, and you can use the sniffer to get gas samples--all are familiar tools and methods used in the show. CSI fans will likely intuitively know when and where to use each item while adventure game fans will delight in having such new, high tech toys.
CSI offers five quality storylines, each of which would feel at home on the show. While you don’t get to fill the shoes of one of the show's well-known characters, you do get to work with each of them as you progress along the CSI investigative chain. Show characters join you to provide hints and help you establish the motive, means, and opportunity needed to determine and catch the bad guy.
Fans of the show will forgive the short length of the game and merely adequate graphics just because of the quality storylines, use of the real actors, and respect shown the license. Adventure game fans will also appreciate it, even if they’ll find it a bit too easy (it’s aimed at mainstream fans more than hardcore gamers). CSI brings enough true crime class to be of interest to fans and non-fans alike.--Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
Actors from the show voice their characters in the game
Pays homage and tribute to the show
Respects adventure game and CSI fans equally
Cons:
Animation is stiff
Five mysteries is too few
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - this was a present for a 10yr old
My son is having fun with this game. It was shipped to my home in a timely matter. I ordered this right before christmas and it got here before I could start to worry about it. THanks
Rating: - CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
This game is awesome. I really liked it. i like being the CSI. It is a real cool game.
Rating: - CSI for begining gamers
I am a retired person just learning to use the computer for games. I tried a few of the new ones and couldn't do them. Very frustrating. This game is easy enough to follow and solve, yet not too easy to be considered boring. I wish that there were more games on this level.
Rating: - CSI
I have not been able to play this game very much because I am stuck in the second crime and they do not have sufficient help to get me unstuck so consequently I have played it very little.
Rating: - Entertaining Overall, but Needs Some Improvements
There are 5 cases included in this game. The first few are a breeze, with the first almost like a tutorial. Each cases takes about 30 minutes to an hour (or a little over) to complete. The last case is the hardest and ties into a few of the other cases, which is a nice challenge and a sweet twist.
Basically, throughout each case, you have to examine different locations and crime scenes and pick up any evidence that you find. Then you go to the lab and either ask Greg to analyze the evidence for you or you use the computer or microscope to search/compare fingerprints, tire treads, molds, and threads etc. You interrogate people and ask Al at the morgue if there's a dead body involved and Jim at the Law Office to get warrants for anything.
The problem with this is that there's not much interaction going on. You are, at no time, in imminent danger and there is no time limit. You simply find things and ask others to examine them or use automatic computers to do it for you. It's not a hard game. The only challenge is finding all of the evidence. If you don't find all of the evidence, your evaluation score at the end of each case goes down. Players can challenge themselves by replaying each case until they have achieved "Master Status" -- which is really the only challenge this game provides.
So in other words, it's a fun challenge for a few hours (or days, depending on how many breaks you want to take), but a little short and too straightforward.
Some other downsides:
- It's annoying to have to switch between the 3 discs as you enter/exit the game and switch cases.
- Whenever you go to the lab, you have to wait for Greg to turn around before you can move or do anything. It's only a few seconds, but it's annoying when you're eager to get something done.
- There are some bugs in the game and it lags sometimes, even though my computer is pretty decent and I have played other games on here before.
Aside from all of that, the graphics are pretty good and the interface is user friendly. Rookies won't struggle with the game and advanced players will have fun killing some time -- it just doesn't last forever.
- this was a present for a 10yr old
- CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
- CSI for begining gamers
