Customer Reviews

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Dark Motives

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

i was unaware that these wouldnt work in vista when i ordered. not the sellers fault, but im stuck with em and cant use em

I have to agree with Bonnie. I'll never buy from this company again. Not only did Dark Motives start using a foreign language that my computer won't let me fix but on the other game I couldn't get past a specific game. When I finally went to look up cheat sheet I realize the game is not letting me ask a very important question. I couldn't move on with the case since this question would not come up. To much of a hassle

Both of these games are wonderful to play for anyone who is or was a fan of the CSI television series. I imagine it could even be enjoyable for those who've never heard of it, but happen to enjoy point and click adventure style games.

The only reason these games didn't get a five star score is because of the glitches. In the first game, though the graphics weren't entirely fantastic, the game lagged considerably. Also, in one of the last cases, a glitch prevented me from seeing an important part of a room by replacing the background with another part of the same room. Luckily, I was able to find a walkthrough, and since the pointer changes when hovering over possible evidence, it was fairly easy to progress through the case.

In the second game, a glitch appears in the beginning of the second case when the dialogue text appears in French for no reason. Though it took me a few hours to find it, this can be remedied by going to the UbiSoft website, clicking on 'support', and searching the knowledge base for the PC version of CSI: Dark Motives. What's strange is that if you put 'language pack' in the search field, nothing will come up. So you have to use the drop-down menus on the left, and the language pack is at the bottom of the list. Through my online searches, I've found out that this glitch is apparently just a product of the double (and/or triple) game pack(s).

If not for the glitches, I would've given both games a five-star rating. However, the search for the relatively obscure language pack was annoying. Other than that, the cases are just hard enough to make you work for it, and the stories aren't lost in the shuffle, so to speak. Also, the character voice acting in the first game (though done by the original cast of the show) is kind of emotionless. It gets much better in the second game; chalk it up to the actors being inexperienced at voice acting, I suppose.

Overall, once the problems that can be fixed are, both are very enjoyable games.

These games seemed to need more than the 1 CD per game that I received. The dark motives game started out okay, but after the 1st case it began to use a foreign language. There was a patch on the UBI Soft website however it wouldn't let me download the patch because it did not recognize that the game was installed on my computer. I ended up having to restore my computer to an earlier date and time to get the games off. I tried to contact J&R Music, which is where the games came from, by email and did not receive a response. I don't believe that I will purchase from J&R Music again. This is not an issue with Amazon as I have ordered many products from them that worked perfectly. However, this particular purchase was extremely disappointing.

I am a huge fan of CSI and I was so excited when I picked this up at Target. It was fun trying to find all of the evidence and figure out who committed the crime and everything, but there were a couple major glitches that happened the entire game. One was the fact that any time there was a close-up of a character, then it was just a giant white box where the person should've been sitting. That was really annoying because you couldn't see anything around them. Another glitch was in the last case of the first disk, no matter what location I went to, it always looked like the suspect's apartment...and Catherine was always floating in the air. That meant that I couldn't see any of the evidence that was supposed to be at that location because it always looked like the apartment that I had already searched. The second disk was a little bit better, but it still had its little glitches...like suddenly talking in a foreign language.

All in all, it was fun, but I'm happy I didn't spend any more money on it than I did.

My grand daughter who is 11, just loved it. She solved all of them and can't wait for more. She enjoys the challenge and she is also learning a great deal from each case. Great game that makes you use your brain and all your senses.AA++

this game was a present for my sisiter-in-law and she loves it. My brother says that she is at the computer for hours, and cannot stop until the next murder is solved.

I am a huge fan of CSI and I bought this for my best friend who is also a huge fan. The graphics are great and they make you feel like your really workiing with the CSI team to solve the crimes.

I am a csi fan so i was and is a blast to play the game.