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Criminal Intent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a PC game that places you in the shoes of Detective Goren in his attempt to solve 4 murders by collecting and analyzing crime-scene evidence, solving puzzles and questioning witnesses through different types of interrogation techniques. It's a straightforward adventure game that allows the player to talk to witnesses using different modes of questioning: confrontational, deceptive, flattering, straightforward and empathetic. Each type of questioning results in a different type of response from a witness so finding out which mode is most effective could result in unlocking more clues to the mystery and could even eventually be the key that leads to a confession. The game also makes use of a Criminal Profiler laptop. Gathered evidence can be submitted to the Criminal Profiler to reveal relevant descriptive information about the killer such as height, age, state-of-mind, etc. The process of collecting and analyzing evidence, however, becomes a redundant but necessary aspect of the game. If you miss finding some critical piece of evidence (like I did), it can hold back your progress for awhile. Puzzles that range from piecing together torn notes to unscrambling surveillance footage is sprinkled about in certain areas of the game but I wish they had added more to break the monotony of evidence gathering. Adventure game fans as well as fans of the TV show should enjoy this game nonetheless.

Bugs and Frustration Await You

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'd never played the Law & Order series games before this one, until then I had played only the CST series so that was all I had to compare it to. While Law & Order does a good job of trying to distinguish itself from CSI - one way it does this is by requiring the player to choose a "tone" in which to interview suspects (sympathetic, interogation, straightforward, etc.) thereby varying the level of information you get out of the suspects. Even this, however, becomes tiresome after a few suspects and a few questions.

This game is so filled with bugs that it is too frustrating to even play. One bug is that when directing Detective Goren on where to walk, he often gets "stuck" and will jog in place or worse, jog into a wall repeatedly rather than go where you are directing him to go.

All in all this game is too frustrating. Save your money.

Excellent game, too many glitches

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I love all crime-solving games. However, the bugs and glitches made it very frustrating to play.

In between scenes, the screen would remain black for several minutes, although the audio worked just fine. If it hadn't been for the glitches, I would have given this game 5 stars.

When I first bought this game, I thought I got a bad disk because everything kept freezing up. I replaced the disk with a new one, and the same thing happened. I wanted to play the game, so I dealt with the bugs.

If you are patient and don't mind waiting for the screen to unfreeze, go for it. It's a great game, great plots, great concept.

Legacy Interactive is horrible about the video quality of their PC games, it seems.

Crash-o-rama

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After 3 months I finally completed all four cases. I had to step awaaaaaay from the computer many many times to avoid throwing it out a window. I know, I know, don't kill the messenger. The game would be wonderful if not for the fact that it randomly CRASHES and every footstep has to be saved or potentially lost forever. Legacy sucked every ounce of fun out of the Law & Order series with this one, but my own sheer determination made me finish the cases. I hope they fix the problems with the next one. I think I'll read the reviews before buying it.

If you like the TV series, you will like this, if not probably not

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the TV series, and thought I would really enjoy this game. Although I liked it, it could have been better. Basicially you play as Detective Goran and solve several murder cases. In the previous games you had choices of several questions to ask (and if you picked the wrong questions, it would set you back a bit), but in this one, you know all the things to ask about, but get to choose how (what attitude) to ask about them. This is sort of fun, though at times the right way to ask did not seem so logical.

Unlike the other Law and Order games, there is no prosecution part of this game, though you do get extra cases, so this makes up for it. However, I think it would be a much strong game if it included Goran's partner from the TV show.

There were some annoying bugs with this game. In several places Goran would just walk backwards, and restarting the game seemed to be the only way to stop this. Also some movement sequences, like going through a cemetary or tunnels, were painfully slow, even on my fast PC. The graphics were pretty good, but not so good, that it warranted this kind of lag.

One final complaint, which was just one of personal preference. I did not find the solutions to the cases to be very satisfying, though diehard fans of the show who really liked a particular character might disagree.

Oh the Agony . . . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited about this game but after TRYING to play it I was just as excited to uninstall it and play something else! Grissom sounds like he is about asleep, he walks into walls, disco dances and what's up with all the characters standing up and flinging out their arms? Is this a secret society or something? Sometimes the people disappear all together. Where do they go? Not to mention locking up frequently (and yes, my system does meet the requirements!) If I hadn't paid good money for this, it would be comical. I'm sure the story line is good, but I won't try or buy another L&O game until there are patches. Sorry.

Great game...if you like bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think this game has the potential to be great. I like this style of game, and I usually have a great time trying to figure out the cases. This one seemed a bit easier than some of the other ones, and to be honest the extra features they are hyping so much don't really add to the game at all. I would recommend this game, after about 6 months. I would wait until they have patches available, because quite frankly it gets very irritating to have to stop and start so much because of the many many bugs. My game only crashed twice, which took forever to sort out, but the in-game bugs are horrible. They really really should've taken their time to release this, and I wonder if they even checked it out before they shipped it. I can't believe a manufacturer would ship a game so obviously bug filled.

Please save yourself the aggravation!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am not new to adventure gaming and have a PC fully loaded and capable of handling EVERY other game I've tried. This one was so full of bugs that I snapped the CD in half out of sheer frustration. There are no patches available yet for the MULTITUDE of problems. Until there are, please don't waste your money!

The Most Glitches in a Game I have Ever Played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Listen, I am a HUGE fan of Law and Order and their games, but this one was by far a HUGE disappointment. The first time I tried to play the game the main character wouldn't even walk in the direction I pointed to. I decided to go online and find an update to this game that might help, and it did, but in no way solved the problems. I had multiple crashes, problems, and frustrations over this. The graphics themselves are mediocre, the lack of any court case also was depressing. While I realize the court is not as much involved in the Criminal Intent spin-off, it is one of the best portions of the other games and is not included at all in this one. The challenges to find evidence are hard, and some of the puzzles are pretty much unbearable...especially when the mouse click is messed up frequently due to the glitches and the general poor crafting of this game. While the game had a fun factor, it is overrun by bad craftmanship and constant game play problems. I sure hope this does not put the nail in the coffin of all Law and Order games because believe me the other games are fun. The best of course was the Justice is Served game. In short, this game needed an extreme makeover, new creativity, and better programming. Save your money, and pray they come out with another worthy Law and Order game, because this my friend...is not at all worthy of the title.

Law and Order Criminal Intent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A Little different than the other in this series...If you install the patch and follow some simply long time gamers rule
this is still a great game..

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