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Crime Stories

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not worth $19.99. It was terrible. I play these type of games all the time, and I've never had such a bad time with a game.

The dialogue was horrible. It was corny. There were times the words came up, but there weren't any voices. The clues didn't even give you any idea what to do next, or where to go.

The graphics were something you'd see on the old nintendo, I didn't like how slow the characters walked, and how by clicking twice they wouldn't speed up like in other games I played.

That was a waste of a perfectly good $20

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure games and I can even overlook bad controls if the story is interesting. Sadly, even for a budget title, this game cost about $20 too much. The Adventure Company and its parent Dreamcatcher have a great track record at finding games from small European publishers and giving them a good release over in the US. That is so not the case here.

Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Forget Ambien or Lunesta, this game works much better.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: May 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am always in the mood for a new game, but I really screwed up when I bought this. The graphics and technology seem to be from the early 90s. I whole-heartily regret buying this. If you have NOTHING to do, this game might actually be of some entertainment. The Godfather game is much better if you are looking for fun.

Ow, that was painful! Heh, heh, heh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: September 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing adventure games for 25 years; I'm definitely patient with older technology. But this game stretched my patience beyond endurance. The storyline is ridiculous and the problems you have to solve are annoying and tedious--not at all engaging or thought-provoking. Dialogue is a mess--poor scripting, bad translation, generally awful voiceover work (except Erika), and bizarre presentation. Dialog is broken into pieces (even within sentences) and then is recorded in those pieces. Resulting in. Stilted dialogue that. Grates. A seemingly endless monologue in the middle of the game had me clawing the walls; around that time I realized that this game was too painful to play. Adventure gaming should not be a test of your tolerance of poor storylines and bad presentation. Please, love yourself enough to pass this one by. (Oh, and why the "heh, heh, heh" in my title? Because all the characters laugh like that in their dialogue. Over and over. Creepy.)

Don't bother with this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I stopped after the first 10 minutes or so because the movement in this game was so horrible. And frankly it was just boring!

I can't believe I actually spent money on that.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As a big fan of CSI and Law and Order, I thought this sounded like a good game I could continue that fascinated with. How wrong I was. The fact that you have to do sixty steps just to get to your car keys when you first start the game was a big omen. The graphics are nice to look at and the detail is amazing, but I wish they had spent more time actually planning the game better and not putting so much detail into every step.

Oh and the dialogue. Wow. I think my cats can think of better dialogue and their's consists of meows.

Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this brand new for $20 and am throwing it away. I don't want to give it away or sell it to prevent someone else from having to sit through the torture. I was hoping it would be something like the old Sierra game "The Colonel's Bequest" but this was horribly opposite of any adventure game I've ever played. Don't waste your time or money.

WOW... I will never get this time back

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow... I'll never get these several hours back!!! The game was horrible. The whole reason for having clues in a video game is so they lead you to the next clue and then to the next, finally ending at a conclusion. Yeah, apparently not in this game, there was absolutely no structure. I got so frustrated with this game, I spent most of time reading on what to do next. I just wanted it to end. So not worth the $20 I spent.

An odd game with poor customer support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like many reviews before mine, I was quite disappointed with this game. The graphics were pretty cool but the diaglouge was a joke. The puzzles and story line were OK- very solvable, until the end. As I was entering the final stage of the game, a very important "hot spot" was missing from my CD. I tried customer support and they told me that they don't give solutions and tried to sell me a solution guide. After a couple of days of frustration, I threw this game away, and forgot about it until now.
Overall, don't waste your time or money.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a terrible game. I didn't get very far in it because i found it truly frustrating and annoying. The graphics are good, yes, but the main character isn't worth it. He is so stupid and annoying! I realize that he's only a computer character, and you have to control him, but in the beginning of the game, he needs to find a phone number. So I found the first half of the number on one piece of paper, and the second half on another piece. When i told him to dial the phone number he said somehting like, "Why would I call that number?" and he just would not call. It gets very aggravating!
Also, it is a point-and-click game, so you can pretty much click on everything around the character, even if it has no significance to the story...And of course he has to comment on it and tell you the item's backstory! Also very annoying.
I didn't even get past the first part of the game, so maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but I felt so flustered by this game that I just gave up...and I am not a person who gives up very easily.
I do not think that this game is worth the money at all.

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