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CSI: Dark Motives | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $14.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1723
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Jewel Case
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 16179
Model: 16179
UPC: 008888161790
EAN: 0827307794445
ASIN: B000Q4SRBO
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Break down the evidence and bring suspects to justice in five all-new, bizarre crimes. Unravel longer cases, search bigger crime scenes and uncover hidden evidence in unique locations like never before. | | • | Master new forensic tools and find more evidence than ever. Use the new Garage Lab to examine large pieces of evidence like cars and trucks. Recreate gunfights with ballistic lasers, uncover shocking secrets with video analysis, and much more. | | • | Experience your very own CSI episodes as you piece together clues with the real CSI actors. Take part in dramatic interrogations, create grisly crime reenactments and explore atmospheric crime scenes inspired by the show. | | • | ESRB Rated T for Teen |
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Product Description
Players will join Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and the rest of the Las Vegas cast to help solve crimes using realistic techniques and lab equipment. Utilizing all-new gameplay concepts, CSI: Dark Motives features forensic reconstructions and atmospheric crime scenes taken directly from the television show, including an all-new garage lab for analyzing large evidence such as cars and boats, improved evidence gathering, review and lab mini-games, and more areas to explore.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 CSI Nintendo DS Game September 22, 2008
I have this game for my PC and it always freezes up, which was frustrating! I just had to get it in Nintendo DS format, which is way better in many ways and it never freezes up on me. I'm finally able to play and really enjoy the game!
 Worse game ever August 28, 2008
This game was completely horrible. I would never recommend it to anyone. I should have looked into it before I bought it. DO NOT BUY!!
 Hard game at least for me! August 23, 2008
I decided to buy this game after I finished all my Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice games, I really like investigation type of games and since I really love the CSI series, I decided to go and give this game a try. I really think this game is very hard. I just can't figure out where to go next, or what tool to use on what, to collect evidence. I started using the walkthrough to help me out but it just gets to the point where you have to use it all the time, and playing like this is just not fun to me. I have also played Hotel Dusk and really enjoyed it but to me this game does not resemble hotel dusk at all. Very frustrating!
CSI: Dark Motives February 29, 2008
I purchased my DS on a whim one weekend. While looking for a game that my friends were all raving about I came across CSI. Being a HUGE fan of CSI Las Vegas, I decided to purchase this game. Once getting used to the controls and how to gather evidence and such, I truly began to love this game. I play for a little while and when i get stuck, I take a step back, shut it off, and come back to it another day. It's not a game to play all in one sitting. It's something for you to sit back and reflect upon, truly create a connection with the characters. I love the fact that i process my own evidence, I establish links, I can ask questions. Does it get frustrating at times? yes....but if you enjoy thinking, and working things out in your head, examining and re-examining things....this is a GREAT game!
Solid, entertaining game. February 16, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
CSI Dark Motives is a very entertaining game that makes good use of the DS lite's controls and features. This game is about gathering and analyzing evidence, building a case, and then finding out "who dunnit".
In this game, you play a new CSI recruit. You are assigned to work with a veteran investigator on 5 cases. You navigate between different locations, such as the crime scene, the lab, and a suspects house.
Game play is pretty simple. Each location is basically a "still image" with various hotspots that you find with the stylus. There is no animation or character movements at any of the locations. You click on a suspect or object in order to interact with it. If it is evidence, you can either grab it or do something to gather it up. For example, you may need to spray a wall or floor with a chemical to reveal blood stains. You then take the evidence back to the lab and use the right CSI tool in order to get more information about it (if there is any more info, that is).
When you identify suspects, you ask them questions and then store their answers. If you gather enough evidence against a suspect, you can get a warrant to search their house and/or bring them in for further questioning. The questions are all pre-determined, and you can't accuse someone of the crime and then see if you are right. You have to PROVE that they did it by building a case against them with the evidence.
Overall, I found this to be a pretty entertaining game. It was frustrating at times, because some of the hotspots are very small. However, the stories were pretty good and there was nothing that was too mind-bogglingly difficult.
The good:
- The game makes very good use of the DS lite controls, particularly the touch screen
- The cases were challenging, but not overly complex
- If you get stuck, you can ask the other investigator for some tips
The bad:
- It was tough to move forward sometimes, and the game did not always make it clear what you needed to do next. For example, if I had gathered evidence against a suspect and wanted to question them, I couldn't until I found some unrelated piece of evidence. When I would ask to interogate a suspect, I was told "you need to establish a stronger link between the suspect and the crime scene". However, what I REALLY needed to do was to find a piece of evidence that showed what time the crime happened. The evidence had nothing to do with the suspect, but it was necessary in order to move the case forward.
- There was a minor technical bug that I came across. When you gather evidence, you often will need to check it for fingerprints, blood, etc. If I found the fingerprint AND picked up the evidence in the same step, the game would not recognize that I had found the fingerprint. I had to start a level over so I could reset this.
- The questions were pretty linear, and there was no variablity or method for ratcheting up the heat on someone. I think that it would have been a little more interesting if the suspects could try to be a little more argumentative or secretive, which would require that you pressure them a bit.
- There is little or no replay value, unless you really liked the cases or the style of play. As far as I could tell, you need every piece of evidence to move to the solution. I don't think you could replay a story and find a new string of evidnece or a new suspect.
I liked this game a lot and I'm glad I picked it. It reminds a little bit of "Hotel Dusk", which is another interactive mystery game. One word of warning: as pointed out in another review and comment, be very careful about consulting a walkthrough. This game is pretty linear, and doesn't really require the building of skills or techniques. Once you've found an answer, it will take you about 10 seconds to move on. When I played Prince of Persia, I had to consult a walkthrough in order to find out how to defeat a certain boss. The walkthrough told me HOW to do it; it still took me about 45 minutes to actually defeat the boss and move on. That is not the case in this game. If you go to the walkthrough too much, the game will take you a a few hours to play, instead of a few evenings.
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