Customer Reviews

Law & Order: Justice is Served

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A good job, and a lot of fun. These games just get better and better!

Game play is smooth and intelligent, except for the irritatingly small number of saved game slots. Writing and acting are both topnotch, with three of the actors from the series doing voice work. Graphics are good and have improved dramatically, to the point where the characters' expressions match the emotion in their voices. Puzzles are mostly well-integrated into the plot; a few are a little unlikely, but since none of the puzzles are too difficult, I'm not going to fuss.

The time and space constraints that made the first two games so frustrating are completely gone, and you no longer have to choose whether you want to be smart or fast because you can't be both. It's really refreshing to see a game series that takes out the bad and leaves the good stuff -- thanks, guys!

Well worth your time whether you're a fan of the show or not.

I have been playing adveture games for years and was a big fan of the Law and Order show when the first of these games came out and was really impressed by that game. Of course there were some kinks, which is why I like this game the best in the series.

Just like the first two games, this new one does a great job of capturing the feeling of the show. The graphics are realistic and I loved that they use the voices of the actors on the show for the characters. It makes you feel like your in one of the episodes. I just wish they had used Sam Waterson's character. It took me about 14 hours to finish Justice is Served, mostly because there are more puzzles. (This game seemed longer than the last two.)

I've played other mystery/detective computer games before, but I think the Law & Order series is the best of the bunch!!

I played the first two law and order games, and this one is by far my most favorite. The graphics look really good and I got totally wrapped up in the story. I'm not really into sports (...) Lots of intresting puzzles and there are many creepy suspects, so I had to keep guessing who really did it. The other detective on the show Ed Green is in the game too, so I liked that he was there. I wished it was easier to figure out how to get search and arrest warrants since I got a little stuck a few times. But I figured out there were some hints and I got help! ;-). If you like the show you will really have fun getting to solve a case yourself like I did.

This has got to be one of the best value buys you can get in adventure gaming. Not only do you get the first game as a bonus (which is of a good length and quite engrossing in itself), you also get a very compelling look into the world of women's professional tennis and the lengths that parents and promoters will go to in a Law and Order setting.

This is the 3rd in the series and it is the longest and most challenging so far. This is the first in the series to have actually stumped me in a few locations and for my first subpoena, I had NO idea what I was doing and made the strongest case get thrown out of court since I only included circumstancial evidence!

This will take you 10-15 hours, longer if you dont break down and look at a walkthrough. Even challenge aside, you will walk away well satisfied from a well told story and rigorous, and thorough conclusion. Highly recommended, and an amazing value

I purchased this game on a whim while actually looking for another software package totally unrelated to games. Since I am a major fan of Law and Order, I decided to try it. I waited a week or more before I had time to look at the game and from then on I was hooked. Since them, I have purchased all 3 Law and Order games and would recommend them to anyone who enjoys mystery games. This game was so engrossing that my entire family was playing it with me for hours.

There were some places where you could get stuck for hours, but it made it all the more challenging for me. I am going to wait for a few months and play it again to see if I can do better on my score.

This was the first Law and Order game that I played and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It came with a bonus copy of Law and Order: Dead on the Money and I think they have made a lot of improvements in Justice is Served. Besides just looking better, I like that they have cut down the time it takes for the labs to process stuff. There are many different characters to interview and puzzles to solve along the way, and the story does have many twists.

However, there still are some problems with the game. The first is that in order to get a search or arrest warrant, you have to have to know exactly which evidence backs it up -- a lot of the time I felt like some evidence was important but the makers of the game apparently did not agree. This was also a problem in the trial part of the game.

And of course, as with all games like this, this is really a one play game unless you just want to see if you can get a higher score.

The third of three L&O games this one comes with new features such as the 'Tell me about ...' feature that allows for a broader questioning phase (like you have person (or evidance) on file that you want to know more about you can ask witnesses about it), and does away with the detective strength/weaknesses that was part of the early games. This makes for a smooth, fluent entertaining game that gives you the feeling of being inside the TV show. This is the best game of the three as it has quite a few challenging puzzles, more witnesses and less patches to be downloaded (!!)
The bonus disks of 'Dead on the Money' work fine if you already have 'Law and Order II: Double or Nothing' installed on your computer. If not, you will need to download the patches off the offical webpage in order to play the bonus game. Also, in response to another review on this webpage, the time limit given in the bonus game can be turned off if at the beginning of the game you choose 'Efficiency' as one of your detective/lawyer strengths. The countdown is MUCH slower.

Having played Law and Order: Double or Nothing, I was looking forward to the next part entitled Law and Order: Justice Is Served. I notice a few changes: new usage of cell phone, replaced actors/actresses, a change of inventory buttons, a different way of questioning, and longer game play. For that latter part, that's where the fault lies. The longer Law and Order: Justice Is Served is, the more boring it gets. I actually forgot what the case was all about during the sleuthing, and I forgot who Elena was. That's how boring the game actually was. There were too much point-and-click, ridiculous puzzles, and too much subplots that had me going in a Labyrinth maze. I got tired of some dead end moments, so I resorted to a strategy guide to get me through to the end because I didn't have the heart to care about the game, just wanted to beat it and move on. All in all, Law and Order: Justice Is Served turned out to be chore that is no fun. As for the CD, it worked well for me except for a couple of occasional shutdowns, so I had to save the game from time to time just in case. One odd thing occured during the lawyer part where Missus breaks and enters (or is it unbreaks and enters?) in a storage space rented by an individual, ain't that against the law and not to mention unethical? I noticed a spelling mistake by the lawyer during the case: judgement instead of judgment. Come on, this is poor.

I liked the first two games much better than this one. This one was more frustrating, it just didn't "flow". I would often run out of things to ask people and would have to look at an on-line walk through, which I hate to do. It usually ended up being some silly thing I missed, but would have never thought of and/or didn't seem logical thing to do. The game didn't seem to have any sequence, like the others, and felt very "mixed up". The puzzles varied from very easy to medium difficulty. The dialog was very annoying, your partner constantly comments on every little thing, and I mean EVERY LITTLE THING! There were a few bugs in the game, freezing, jumping, etc. The graphics I did not feel were as good as the prior games and some of the characters voices were much lower than others. The plot was good, but again, not as much fun as the other 2 games. If you like the series, it's worth playing once, but don't expect it to be better than the first 2.

I wasn't a Law&Order fan until about a year and a half ago when I saw the second L&O game on the shelves of Best Buy. I read the back and was intrigued, considering I didn't even know what the show was about. I dropped the $30 for it like a bad habbit. IT WAS AWESOME! After a weekend of no sleep, I beat the game and bought the first L&O game of the internet. I've waited a long time for them to make a new one and it's great and worth every pennie!