For the longest time I have tried to watch this on TV but kept on being overuled. So I thought I would by the game instead!
With that in mind, I have no idea who the characters are, and am just enjoying this as a crime solving game.
Graphically, it won't win any awards. It looks like it's been designed with maybe the Wii version in mind but there is the odd cut scene of Las Vegas when you travel from place to place (which are soon followed by a loading screen), which is nice. Sound wise there isn't a great deal to it - mostly voices, and I guess that the voice actors are the real actors but as I don't watch the show, I don't know
So that leaves the gameplay. You're basically presented with a crime scene. It's then up to you to search the crime scene usings the various tools of the Crime Scene Investigation trade. These are classified into two types; Detection, and Collection. Collection includes items such as the camera (taking photos of the scene), latex gloves (for picking up large items) and tweezers (for smaller items). Detection includes things like fingerprint powder (for, erm, finger prints), ultraviolet light (for checking the hotel beds out, I guess) and a usb stick (I guess you might want to listen to MP3s or something).
But anyway, with these things at your disposal you can move around the crime scene, albeit in a rather primative way - pan left/right, zoom in/out. You control the moving with the right thumb stick, and a cursor with the left. Moving the cursor over items of interst allows you to bring up your detection/collection tools so that you can gather evidence.
Once you have scoured a crime scene and collected all the evidence you can find, you can take it back to the crime labs (initially a mobile lab) to run them through various scanners. I.e. matching finger prints up to databases, scanning items for DNA, determining the chemical composition of items, and so on.
Things go from there as you find suspects who you can talk to, and there's also some fella who follows you around who you can ask for help at any point (he will tell you what you should be doing in certain areas, although this will impact on your score for the level).
You then travel from place to place, talking to people, gathering evidence, and building your case (called an Evidence Trinity in the game). All of the travelling is done via your PDA and you can go wherever you like at any point in the game.
For those who have played Phoenix Wright, its a very similar type of game, but obviously with a darker, more realistic, take on things. I'd imagine that fans of the CSI show will quite like it, as well they should, because it is quite a fun game. Or at least I'm finding it fun at the moment (after a few hours of play)
If I had paid ?40 over here for it then I might have been a tad disappointed by things, but as it happened I imported it for half that (it's region free) and am really quite pleased that I bought it.
Oh and for those thinking "its only 5 achievements. must be easy!", well, it probably is quite easy (as mentioned you can get the guy to tell you what to do) but at the same time its quite a long game so you wouldn't be able to get them in a few hours or anything like that.
With that in mind, I have no idea who the characters are, and am just enjoying this as a crime solving game.
Graphically, it won't win any awards. It looks like it's been designed with maybe the Wii version in mind but there is the odd cut scene of Las Vegas when you travel from place to place (which are soon followed by a loading screen), which is nice. Sound wise there isn't a great deal to it - mostly voices, and I guess that the voice actors are the real actors but as I don't watch the show, I don't know
So that leaves the gameplay. You're basically presented with a crime scene. It's then up to you to search the crime scene usings the various tools of the Crime Scene Investigation trade. These are classified into two types; Detection, and Collection. Collection includes items such as the camera (taking photos of the scene), latex gloves (for picking up large items) and tweezers (for smaller items). Detection includes things like fingerprint powder (for, erm, finger prints), ultraviolet light (for checking the hotel beds out, I guess) and a usb stick (I guess you might want to listen to MP3s or something).
But anyway, with these things at your disposal you can move around the crime scene, albeit in a rather primative way - pan left/right, zoom in/out. You control the moving with the right thumb stick, and a cursor with the left. Moving the cursor over items of interst allows you to bring up your detection/collection tools so that you can gather evidence.
Once you have scoured a crime scene and collected all the evidence you can find, you can take it back to the crime labs (initially a mobile lab) to run them through various scanners. I.e. matching finger prints up to databases, scanning items for DNA, determining the chemical composition of items, and so on.
Things go from there as you find suspects who you can talk to, and there's also some fella who follows you around who you can ask for help at any point (he will tell you what you should be doing in certain areas, although this will impact on your score for the level).
You then travel from place to place, talking to people, gathering evidence, and building your case (called an Evidence Trinity in the game). All of the travelling is done via your PDA and you can go wherever you like at any point in the game.
For those who have played Phoenix Wright, its a very similar type of game, but obviously with a darker, more realistic, take on things. I'd imagine that fans of the CSI show will quite like it, as well they should, because it is quite a fun game. Or at least I'm finding it fun at the moment (after a few hours of play)
If I had paid ?40 over here for it then I might have been a tad disappointed by things, but as it happened I imported it for half that (it's region free) and am really quite pleased that I bought it.
Oh and for those thinking "its only 5 achievements. must be easy!", well, it probably is quite easy (as mentioned you can get the guy to tell you what to do) but at the same time its quite a long game so you wouldn't be able to get them in a few hours or anything like that.
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