CSI: Hard Evidence

 (27 customer reviews)

We really need more game like this one. CSI is pretty short and can be beat in a weekend... but it's done very well, very mature and does a good job sticking to the TV shows roots. If you like the TV show... you'll like playing this game. Good cases... good voice acting... and very fun trying to solve it all yourself. If it were longer with more cases and a little less linear it would be closer to a 5 star game imo.
Hopefully XBOX LIVE can offer more cases to DL.

OK.

I bought this game for two reasons: 1, easy achievement points. 2: I love case-type games like this, with forensics and the like.

And don't get me wrong...I like the game, but there are significant issues with it, which I'll get to in a moment.

First, this game's #1 issue: the TV show theme song is nowhere to be found. This is a glaring problem. It seems like a small thing, but it really does immerse you to have that "Who Are You" song playing.

Now, to the game. This is essentially a point-and-click game, ala Myst. You go to different areas such as the crime scene and other adjunct areas and collect evidence, or observe notable things. As you collect the evidence, you can go to the crime lab and examine what you've found. The goal of course is to find out who did it, and make a strong case against them (hence the subname, which I'll also get to later). You also will observe items that are not directly tied to the crime, but stand...Read more

My wife and I played this game over the span of a week, off and on and really enjoyed it. The playability is very much improved over the first pc game. The cases are very well thought out, logical, yet with a few twists along the way. The fifth case was very fun with the laser tracking. The graphics on the 360 version are a little lacking, and the mouth movements are very weak, but can be overlooked. If you are a fan of mystery games, or of the csi tv shows, im sure youll be happy with this game.