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WORSED GLITCH AND BUG PROBLEM EVER!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am personally shocked and very disappointed with this game!! i have all the other law and order games, absolutely love them! play them more regularly than any of my other games and i was really looking forward to owning this one. im not really a criminal intent fan but i wasnt a law and order fan until i played the games now i love it, i was hoping the same could be said for criminal intent but that would have to actually involve me playing it!!!! it is impossible!!!

first when i tried to install it it kept saying there was a package error!! once i got passed that i began playing it, though the different style of this l&O game was intriguing but at the same time annoying as i preferred the original L&O games engine.anyway i got to a few points in the game where gorien would run and stick in an ungoable direction, this happened about 6 times!!!! i found a patch on the net which fixed this, BUT screwed up the navigation on my computer!! it acted like a virus even though its not! i then got to an interview at a bar lounge and the game continually crashed every time i went to get the recipt!! i figured out that if you insert the first disc instead the game began running smooth (well smoother, its still choppy and feels like its about to stuff up any minute!) but by inserting the first disc, i could no longer SAVE!!!!

im pretty dedicated to trying to get games to work, god, there have been so many ive played with problems and glitches or crashes (even the other law and order games crash in the most annoying spot!) but this is just to much!!!, trust me when i say avoid this game like the plague!!! whether
your a fan or not, its not worth spending the money on something that youll only get about 30 minutes of play time with, and there isnt a person in the world that would have the tolerance to endure the crashes and glitches in this game!!!

you were warned!

Its fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game is fun, but it seems to freeze a lot, and the clues can be difficult to access.

Stick with the CSI games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If the TV show games are your thing then I recomend sticking with the CSI Las Vegas games. They flow better and the stories are far more interesting.

game issues

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Amazon was fast with sending my game to me. I love these games, but the game itself has many issues. The video is really bad. It's not my video card my husband has checked to make sure of that. I have just about every other Law and Order games and also CSI ones. They are the best.

Huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played all of the CSI games and the three L&O games prior to this one and, man, was I let down by this. It's a huge resource hog - it took almost 10 minutes to install the thing and it took even longer to uninstall it. When the installation is complete it automatically sends a registration (to whom and with what information is unknown - a major privacy violation) without giving the opportunity to say no. The game play isn't intuitive at all and doesn't follow the same conventions established in the earlier offerings. The PDA thing is a pain in the [...], there's no right-click functionality, limited options in terms of configuration (cannot play it in other than full screen), and NO INSTRUCTIONS! Not happy at all with this.

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.

A different L&O, but they keep getting better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bugs aside -- and they are indeed obnoxious at times -- Legacy keeps getting better with each L&O entry.

Maybe it's because I like linear games, and maybe it's because I like pixel hunting, but I think CI's first installment is their best L&O so far.

First thing is, there's more than one crime to solve here. There are four. That's a big plus.

Next is the fact that it's more character based than the previous three. Being third-person (as opposed to first-person) doesn't make much of a difference, if you ask me, but it's refreshing to have the detective actually ask the questions out loud. Listening to the Q&A's in full adds a lot to the experience.

Then there's Vincent D'Onofrio's voicing. To be honest, it's not the TV show. His dynamics are somewhat lacking here. On film, D'Onofrio has much more presence, and his acting is given proper direction. In this game, while he does an adequate job, his tone rarely veers from the calm-toned vocals that have become his trademark. Unfortunately, though, that's not enough. On screen, Vincent exudes plenty of energy, while here, no matter what "angle" of questioning the player chooses, he maintains a somewhat monotone vocal. This is not necessarily a pitfall, mind you, but to enjoy this game's main-character acting, one must either never have seen the show or suspend most of what they've already experienced from it.

A nice new inclusion in this installment that was missing from the previous L&O games is the automation of getting info on suspects and evidence. In Criminal Intent, one no longer needs to send things to each individual department. Suspects being analyzed automatically go to both Research and Surveillance, while collected evidence to bhe analyzed automatically goes to both Research and the Crime Lab. Makes play a lot less tedious.

If you can deal with the bugs that often make this game frustrating to play, then I recommend it (as I do the previous three L&O games). I enjoyed it despite the bugginess, but everyone's got a different threshold for tolerance.

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.

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..

This game is the pits

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game has too many bugs, frequent crashes and majority of the time even when you have all your information you can not obtain required search warrants etc. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY on this piece of garbage

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