This is a
new concept of gaming for me. I tried the CSI games on the recommendation from
a friend that they are good to play as a couple. I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve never
really watched CSI but you don’t really need to in order to play the game. It’s
essentially five episodes which have an overarching storyline and you are
basically on a mission to crush Beatrice Salazar’s drug empire.
CSI’s gameplay can be easily compare to
the old point and click style adventure games where you have to investigate
crime scenes in order find evidence and prove murders. You have a lab in which
to analyse the evidence which includes DNA, chemicals, microscopes and computer
analysis to name a few.
There are
also interrogations where you can use the evidence to force people’s
confessions.
And that’s
pretty much it. It is a very simple game which can be really frustrating when
you can find that last piece of evidence in a scene. However there were several
moments that were actually quite funny as result of under development of story
and just horrendous gameplay.
Covering the
story element first, some of the characters are really under developed. The
interrogations could have been a lot better. You gather all the evidence to
nail someone with the crime and they will deny it until they are blue in the
face. Then you present them with a piece of circumstantial evidence that could
be easily thrown out or argued against but instead of expectedly arguing on, the
suspect folds instantly like a wet napkin and confesses everything!
What we
found most annoying is that we were figuring out what had happened and what we
needed to do but then the game would send us patronising emails telling us what
we already knew. We had the hints set on low as well so this was exceptionally
irritating. We were also thinking of different questions to ask suspects based
on the evidence we had collected but didn’t have the option to ask the suspect
because we hadn’t complete a prerequisite to another part of the investigation.
It was like the game was saying, ‘No you can’t solve this your way. You MUST
solve it our way!’
As far as
the gameplay goes, the microscope stuff was very, very irritating. We couldn’t
get past the first investigation because of the bloody thing no matter how many
different combinations we tried.
We were
tasked with analysing a piece of evidence under the microscope. The tutorial
indicated that we could move the microscope around to look at different bits of
the piece of evidence, but in reality this was not the case and you were fixed
on the one area.
There are
three levels of zoom you can use and you can adjust the focus accordingly but
after trying every possible combination, we resorted to looking it up online.
Apparently we had to adjust the zoom first and then the focus in that exact
order or else it won’t work. We only had this problem for the first microscope
bit so I can only imagine that it is an unfixed glitch.
Achievements – 1,000 points – 25
Achievements
There are no
missable achievements and I think they are all story related. There are three
which may require replaying certain missions but it’s not too time consuming to
do so.
Downloadable Content – N/A
So CSI is
another achievement farm but it is fun to play with others. The one issue with
this type of game is that there is next to no replay value as once you’ve
played it through, you know what will happen. Due to the hand-holding nature of
the gameplay, there are no alternative routes to the solution which is its
biggest let down by far.
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