Law & Order: Dead on the Money

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• 15 pt. Manila folders feature 2" capacity fasteners inside front and back covers.
• 1" capacity on both sides of dividers.
• Sturdy Tyvek® gussets for expansion.
• 2/5 cut top tabs, right of center.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000663U5
• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,797 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Developer

Law & Order: Dead on the Money is an exciting 3-D game based on an original, complex murder case created by a Law & Order TV writer. You'll step into the dramatic world of criminal investigation when you're called to a crime scene in Manhattan's Central Park. You and your partner, Detective Lennie Briscoe (actual voice of Jerry Orbach), will work to uncover the identity of the victim, gather evidence, track down witnesses, and identify viable suspects. Once you've got enough evidence to make an arrest, your supervisor, Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (actual voice of S. Epatha Merkerson), will sign off on your warrant. Once you have the killer in custody, the focus shifts to the criminal courts. You'll work with Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn (actual voice of Elisabeth Rohm) to build a compelling case that will convince the jury to return a guilty verdict and convict the defendant.

Product Description

Law & Order: Dead on the Money is an exciting 3-D game based on an original, complex murder case created by a Law & Order TV writer. You'll step into the dramatic world of criminal investigation when you're called to a crime scene in Manhattan's Central Park. You and your partner, Detective Lennie Briscoe (actual voice of Jerry Orbach), will work to uncover the identity of the victim, gather evidence, track down witnesses, and identify viable suspects. Once you've got enough evidence to make an arrest, your supervisor, Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (actual voice of S. Epatha Merkerson), will sign off on your warrant. Once you have the killer in custody, the focus shifts to the criminal courts. You'll work with Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn (actual voice of Elisabeth Rohm) to build a compelling case that will convince the jury to return a guilty verdict and convict the defendant.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging and very Entertaining!, October 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Law & Order: Dead on the Money (CD-ROM)

Law and Order: Dead on the Money is one the best role playing games I have played in a long time.

It reminds me a little bit of the good old times when Sierra's Police Quests were around.

However, this games requires a bit more thinking and investigating to get through. Its one of those games when you get stuck you don't want to exit the game and move on to the next one. You try to go back and figure out how to advance in the case.

The game is really entertaining. I've spent three to four days trying to solve the case and a few more on the courtroom trial.

When you play it really feels like you are inside one of the Law & Order shows. Their online demo really gives you a good taste for the game. They graphics and sound is really great. I had no problem installing and running the game on the Windows XP system.

It is a really good value for the money. I hope Legacy Interactive will come up with more Law & Order games such as this!

I've really enjoyed playing the game. It actually has a good and realistic plot, unlike most of the other games out there. Throughout the course of the game things actually start to make sense and with your good investigation the case unfolds itself.

If you like this game genre you definitely will not be disappointed.

69 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great idea but some flaws in implementation, December 25, 2002

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law & Order: Dead on the Money (CD-ROM)

This computer game is based on the popular TV series. The gameplay does a good job of having you feel like you're in an exciting episode of the show.

The characters and voices are right from the TV show, so you really feel like you're part of the action. You head out to the crime scene - a woman was killed while jogging in Central Park. You search the scene for evidence, and then start talking to various suspects.

You can choose your strengths, so you can know which questions not to ask, or you can get help finding evidence by having them highlighted. You have your crime lab and research lab examine evidence, and your surveillance team watches the people. As you find more clues, you track down more people to talk to. Get enough evidence, and you can request a search warrant, and eventually accuse someone of the crime.

That's when things get turned over to the lawyers. Now you try to prosecute this criminal, calling witnesses, discussing evidence, objecting to bad questioning. If you do a good enough job, you can nail the perpetrator!

The game definitely draws you along, You eagerly await the results of the tests you request, and wonder what the people you are talking to are hiding. You have an inkling of what you are looking for, and dig around until you track it down.

On the downside, the game is extremely single-threaded. The only way you can talk to person X is to investigate item Y - but you have no idea that it's item Y you need to submit out of the 50+ items you find at the scene. You can't carry them all, and you get scolded for picking up each item or submitting too many to evaluate. Where in a normal crime scene you'd figure the crew would gather up all evidence and sift it for you, here you get deducted moments for each "thing" on the ground (you don't know what it is until you pick it up) you even look at! So it almost forces you to play each half of the game many times - a few times to figure out what all the items *are* and which are important, and then a last time to actually just touch the items you now know "by osmosis" are important to your case.

The same is true during questioning of various people - questions that seem to be quite related end up causing the person not to answer questions that you actually need. They randomly decide at a point not to talk to you further - even if you have more questions for them. For example, a cleaner has his cart parked on a key point of evidence. But ask him the wrong questions and you cannot ask him to move his cart, even though he's still standing right there!

Finally, even though I use my system for many, many games of all types, this one crashed on me very frequently. It just meant even more frequent saves and restores, beyond what the gameplay already forced on you through its single-mindedness.

Recommended to a fan of the show, and a great concept. Hopefully future releases will address some of these issues and give the game more open gameplay, as in real world detecting.

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than I expected, December 13, 2002

By 

SugaryLemons (were the sky is blue) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Law & Order: Dead on the Money (CD-ROM)

I had way more fun than I thought. This game starts out like the tv show, a crime happens and you're there to help put it all together. I became so addicted to solving the case I was loosing track of time. I love this game because it isn't easy to solve and it seems so real. Here are a few things you might need to know to have successful game play.

1. Go to the site that made this game. There you'll find all the patches and upgrades that you might need to play this game. People seem to miss this part. You'll also find cheats, help with any problem your game might have, wallpaper, support, etc. This site is where I got my video upgrade from. It wasn't like a normal upgrade but one I think the game makers put together. [URL]

2. System requirments are (you need at least): pentium 2, 400 mhz, 96 mb ram, 12x cd-rom drive, 8mb video card, sound card, 700 mb available hard disk space, keyboard, and mouse.

3. read the booklet that comes with the game. It gives you what you need to know. Some people seem to over look this...and this is where some of your answers are at.

4. you can't have an old computer for this.

What I wish the game had was more than 1 case. It would have been cool if maybe 20 or 30 extra cases were included. But then again they would have charged us more for it. Other than that I love this game. I didn't give it 5 stars because the screen went black a few times.