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CSI Deadly Intent DS

Format:
DS

Genre:
Adventuring

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Dusting for prints and suspects with CSI Deadly Nights, is curiously enjoyable even if you don’t know the show.

• Perfect for fans of the CSI show.
• Great for non-fans like me too.
• Twisting plots and storylines.
• 5 very different criminal cases.
• Great use of DS controls.
• Good variety of tasks to complete.
• It’s not exactly fast paced.
• Little incentive to replay game.
• Audio is best turned off.

In My Experience

I’ve played a couple of these point and click detective style games, along with the ubiquitous Phoenix Wright on the DS - but hey, this should be good as it’s based on the real deal, CSI. Not being a massive fan, I can’t comment on how close the characters are to their screen versions, but the dialogue is certainly immersive. As are the controls: a mixture of finding clues, solving puzzles, and selecting the right tools at the scene to gather evidence - and picking the right evidence during interrogations. The five cases on offer are like mini episodes with suspects and motives galore and there are a few surprises along the way that’s for sure.

Puzzles are included under the guise of ‘processing evidence’ and involve cracking codes, matching DNA and rearranging pieces of material - all like mini games really. I liked them and they matched the story.

Last Word

So, mix in some strong storylines, nice controls and some grey-matter thinking alongside slightly boring point the stylus action means a solid game in my view. I really wanted to see whodunit and had to keep playing until I finished each case - surely a sign of a good game.

Five solid convictions and my work is done.

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It kept me busy on many train journeys to London. I enjoyed completing the puzzles and watching the stories unfold.

Written by Steve Manser

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Steve Manser writes the Teletext Gamer column.

"I remember watching and waiting for Teletext pages to tell me the latest and greatest video game news in the 80s and 90s. What better way then, to review the best of those old games with some choice new titles here and there."

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