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Unsolved Crimes

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In Unsolved Crimes you're a new detective, and you must go out and solve crimes. It's the standard point/click adventure type game, with a few side missions thrown in (a brief driving scene where you steer the car, and a shootout scene).

The standard case breaks down like this: Get the case, witness info, and a few items found at the crime scene. Investigate the crime scene and piece things together. Report to your captain. Give your gut feeling on who did it. Get updated testimony (you don't do the actual interrogations), and use that info to go investigate more. Report again. Investigate more, give a final report and solve the crime.

If you're a fan of games like Phoenix Wright, Trace Memory, and Hotel Dusk then you should check it out. If you find those games too slow, and too linear, then this won't do anything to change your mind on the genre.

It's fun, but relatively short.

Unsolved CrimesIf you like mystery you would like this game, you will not want to put it down. I find that it helps to keep the brain working. ( I am a senior citizen ) There are 13 cases to solve + driving and shoot outs. There is a lot of going back and forth from crime scene to evidence files and profiles. I was told to go home a few times I was not detective material the game ends and you start whatever case you were working on over again. I would recommend this game, try it you will like it.

I bought Unsolved Crimes based on the review that said it was similar to Hotel Dusk Room 215 and Trace Memory, both of which are very fun and interesting games. I also thought it would be similar to the Nancy Drew PC game series. Unsolved Crimes is NOT like these at all.

The primary complaint I have is that your "partner" leads you through everything, as if you are in a tutorial. You can't look around the crime scene on your own, or do any of your own investigating. She'll [...] in and make deductions for you, even if you hadn't gotten that far in the deductive thinking yet. Every two minutes she'll announce that you need to go report your findings to your chief; why? Can't we just finish investigating the crime scene first? Apparently not.

The crimes weren't that interesting, the graphics not that great, and the fact that you can't, you know, play detective on your own, is extremely frustrating. I brought this game back the next day.

This is a game with much realism and practicality. Don't expect to decipher mysterious symbolic clues, play puzzle or maze games or place boiled eggs on fake bird nests to solve your cases. Those actions belong to fantasy detective games. In "Unsolved Crimes" you play a real life rookie detective in the NY Homicide Division.

Before hitting the crime scene you are given a training case, "Learning the Ropes". Graffiti was found in the alley behind the police building and there are 4 suspects. A briefing of the case is presented, you check the evidence, review the suspects profiles and their testimonies. Then you head to the alley to find more clues.

I almost did not get to play this game. At the alley, nothing I clicked had any relevance. The game was at a standstill until I decided to ignore the message, "There's trash everywhere" in one of the trash piles and insist on taking one closer look after another into the trash. With my insistence I found an appointment book hiding under it. This item was the clue to later solving the case.

After completing the training you are given the first homicide case. "Death in the Suburbs". Howard Loman, a 42 year old car salesman was stabbed to death in his home. His wife found him dead in the living room when she returned home from grocery shopping. She called the police There are 3 suspects: his wife, a man who owed Loman money and a thug that was found sneaking around the neighborhood. As initial evidence you have the murder weapon (a knife) and the grocery store receipt.

The second homicide case, "Dead Man's Hand" is about an apparent suicide. Police found the victim, Michael Snyder, sitting on a chair, dead, with a gun in his right hand. The bullet went through both his temples. There were 3 other people with him--friends of the victim from high school who belonged to the same baseball little league. It is not clear what they were doing in Snyder's apartment.

And so on for a total of 12 cases. Right now I have solved the first 5 cases and will be starting number 6, "House Search".

Basically in all the cases what you have to do is find relevant evidence at the crime scene and study the testimonies of the suspects comparing them against each other. Once you find who is not telling the truth by the inconsistencies of his story, you find the murderer.

The only exception to this pattern, up till now, is the third case. It is short and does not get solved completely. In this one you have to look fast at a car that is driving away and recall the license plate. Remembering correctly solves the case partially and allows you to start the fourth one. It looks like this third case will later be combined with one of the following to find its final solution.

If you like the genre, this is the game for you with hours of of fun. You use clues at the crime scene, from the suspects statements, and your own inner investigator to solve the case. Enjoy!

This game is like reading a crime novel were I get to be the detective. The crimes are a challenge to solve but if you find the clues and use a little creative deducing it can be done.

This is an awfful game! It does not allow for any independent thought and you have to think just the way the the developers think
This is an awful game! There is no way to account for independent thought and you have to follow the game step by step their way! I am sorry that I bought this game and would not recommend it to anyone!

I love detective games and this one just bit the dust. I am sorry to say that I have to give a negative reaction to this game. Just trust me there is too much detail to go on into to tell what is wrong with the game. Just don't buy.

I do not like this game. It is too much work without much fun. Very dissapointing.