An Intriguing Body of Evidence
Characters from TV's "CSI" series appear in the game.
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Based on the hit television series, the game "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 3 Dimensions of Murder" features the likenesses of all the characters from the show, including Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, Greg Sanders and Al Robbins. You play a new member of the team trying to prove yourself among those seasoned professionals.
An excellent tutorial shows you how to use the many tools of the CSI trade before you go into the field. That way you'll know when to use leuko-crystal violet accelerant to accentuate trace amounts of blood, and when to use luminol, which can find blood on surfaces that have been wiped down before you arrived.
Those who watch the show may expect this, but if you don't, know that the game pulls no punches. Crime scenes are sometimes bloody affairs, so if swabbing the blood out of the eye of a victim is too much for you, then you are probably too squeamish for this Mature-rated title. Some of the hard edge is taken off by the CSI team, with each member seemingly an endless fountain of wit and dry humor.
The game starts out simply enough, with a body found in an art gallery. For that case, Warrick Brown hangs out with you and will give you hints if needed. Some of the things you need to find are extremely small, so gazing for a long time around the crime scene is expected. When you discover something, you use your tool bag to find the correct means to enhance or collect the evidence. You also have to interview any suspects or witnesses you find. Much of the evidence you collect can be further processed back at the lab, where all the blood, hair and shoe prints will start to paint a picture of what happened. On the least difficult setting, the CSI team will give you hints when you get stuck, though that will lower your overall rating.
Eventually you will investigate five cases, with some going on at the same time. Like on the TV show, the cases are filled with odd plot twists, secondary crimes and hidden motives. When you finally solve a case and arrest a suspect, the feeling of accomplishment makes all the hard work worthwhile.
-- John Breeden II
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 3 Dimensions of Murder Mature; Windows XP ($30) UBISoft
