Others say...

"CSI Junkie"
The CSI games have a great thing going on. The games are challenging but not impossible and you feel acomplished after you've beat them.

(I made my daughter age 15 write this review)

"Get into the show with CSI Dark Motives"
Nice graphics for this game, it almost feels like you are watching a show and being allowed to participate. The original actors contributed there voices which adds to the realism. At times the game is very easy, but as you progress further some of the clues are hard to find and some of the tools do not consistently work the way that you think they should. Maybe I am just missing a piece of the puzzle.
If you are a fan of the show you will probably like this game although it would be much better if it was set up with you as an actual character onscreen that you have to direct around the crime scene...open up more possibilities for missing clues...

"Without choice, no mystery."
My niece wanted me to try out a Nancy Drew game a while back, because whe thought it was buggy; but it turned out to be her computer. However, I wasn't too thrilled with the game, although it was inoffensive; but there was no way to get Nancy to carry out her investigation at her own pace; so it was actually difficult to collect some clues that I knew were there, but which I could make available except by finding other clues first. Eventually I decided I wouldn't bother identifying with Nancy Drew (just as well), and gave up on the game, even though it's outcome by then had become obvious.

But although a shooter/adventure player mostly, I always thought a mystery-role-play game would be fun, especially if they designed it for adults.

Well, maybe not.

My problem with CSI began right away - I wanted to interview the available witness first, the game intended me to visit the crime scene first. So okay, I play along, at least until we have both the witness reprot and first look at the evidence.... So we get back to the witness, and I wanted to ask questions, obviously; so the game gives me a choice of prewritten questions to choose from, and....

No, wait, that's not quite what happened.

The apparent choice of question was entirely bogus. After the third question, it was clear that I not only had to ask all the given questions, but I had to ask them in the order in which they were listed.

Which means that I had no choice, which means that I wasn't playing any game - the game was playing itself, and I was just the little robot to press the right button at the right time to keep the program running.

Well, but I'm not a robot, and I think that such a game design strategy just sucks.

What's really needed is mystery game wherein you can write your own dam' questions. Until then only those without a clue would play a "mystery" game like CSI.

"great game"
awsome game good fun and lots of mind work overall best game yet

"I would recommend this game"
If you love to watch CSI, then I would recommend this game to you. LIke CSI Miami it's a little hard to get use to in the begining, but it's so much fun.