CSI: Hard Evidence - PC & Xbox 360 Available Now!
The game is on shelves now, so it's time for a new thread!
We'd love to hear your first impressions, feedback, and reviews of the game. Enjoy!
We'd love to hear your first impressions, feedback, and reviews of the game. Enjoy!
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gamestop fails again!
I know. Curse those lucky Americans!:p
The PC version?!
Thank you! That was my doing.
http://csi.us.ubi.com/hardevidence/index.php
anyways, there have been many improvments... from mini games, to hard to find colleactables that unlock bonus items.... and even a
even the tutorial is humorus.... you need to find grissoms missing jelly doughnut...
overall i like it, fun game... cool stories... and a nice addition to the series
i will also note that you can view all 5 trailers as part of the unlockable bonus features.... a nice thing to have since ubisoft only released 3 of them.... oh, and you unlock the next cases trailer by completing a case.... so you can watch the trailer than play the case, anyways... i would avoid the case 5 one untill after you are done with the case, its kinda spoilery (a job well done on that one ubisoft :mad:)
P.S. i am an amimal at these kinds of games, and just because i blew through it in one evening, does not mean you will as well.... this game will provide 5 nights of good gaming and puzle solving to the average gamer (one case a night, taking 2-3 hours per case)
and in case 5.... during all the interrogation room scenes.... grissom is cross eyed... (its funny at first, Then annoying) ill get a pic, give me a few minutes here
EDIT: here is a quick pic of the bug (it is even worse on some other lines... this is a mild one)
Congrats on finishing! Glad the wait is over for you, and that you liked the game.
I just checked this, and don't see the resolution bug. The + button is on the right side, and properly increases the resolution. The - button is on the left, and decreases the resolution. Is the + button on the right or left for you?
EDIT: now that i think about it... it may be caused by a slight incompatibility with my video card, i am running a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M integrated laptop graphics card, if the game uses your hardware and windows resolution settings (instead of its own) this could be the cause of the mix up in controls
as for the cross eyed grissom.... it was the only graphics bug i saw, apart from a few clipping errors with some textures, here and there... but nothing overtly major, job well done on that one guys
i also have to note on the cool way case 4 was introduced.... with following the trail of evidence up the steps, down the hall, and to the bedroom.... creepy, ill give you props for that one... oh, and the fact that you guys completely modeled and rendered an enite cul-de-sac full of houses, just for one aerial shot.... insane, and i bet i am the only person who noticed it, and realised the time that went into that
the 3D crime scene kit, and all the cutscenes, and phone calls were a nice touch as well (i also enjoyied the interrogation room shortcuts... clicking on brass to change the person you are talking to without loading the location again, and the fact you listed the interrogation room as a regularly accessable CSI location was a good idea as well
some of the locations in this game are truely massive, and the scenery and background stuff in some of the locations is cool as well.... i also caught the sam and max downloader icons and the CSI:3 icons that kept popping up on the desktops of so many computers in the game and the mega huge ultimate unlockable, for getting perfect on all 5 cases.... reminds me of another telltale games classic....
we need another blog with a list of sightings
i have seen the game at target, gamestop, EB games, and walmart so far... and sorry, my camera phone is a peice of junk... otherwise i would have gotten the "required" thumbs up shots of the game on the shelves :rolleyes:
We are hoping to add the game to our online store soon, but it takes a little longer than putting one of our self-published games in because we have to order them from Ubisoft and then ship them to our warehouse. It might be a few weeks before everything's in place, so if you're dying to get your hands on it before then, try one of the stores Dangerzone mentioned. Best Buy has it too.
one note about the moble lab....
you also only see the garage lab a few times as well, they could have made much more use of both the garage, and the moble labs.... anyway, the garage is only in 2 of the cases... and both the moble lab, and the garage lab also make a brief cameo in the tutorial (actually the moble lab is parked in the garage... two birds, one stone) but the garage is a permanent location you can always visit once you have a car to process... unlike the moble lab, which is still a "one time only" deal in both cases it is used
P.S. ill make this shot into a nice wallpaper (in a few different resolutions) tonight when i am sitting around with nothing to do (i am going to add the csi: hard evidence, telltale, and ubisoft logos along with the somewhat required "copyright, TellTale Games 2007" tag at the bottom
i am just going to use website logo grabs... but if a telltaleist has a prefrance for which logos they want on it, ill use those instead...
EDIT: i just threw the logos from the ubi site in real quick.... wallpaper is under the original version
I really enjoyed this and the ones before, my only gripes if I had to find one would be firstly the graphics. Yep, its not an important feature for these types of games, however seeing the same flat hair over and over again when your talking to people totally puts me off, though I can understand somewhat as this would increase the gore factor when discovering bodys etc so I would imagine this would push the rating of the game up.
Also I woulden't of mind seeing some kind of ending, rather than just a dump back to the level select screen like previous versions, even a credits roll woulden't of gone amiss, albeit avalible from the main menu (yeah yeah im picky )
Oh, and more personal interaction with the main characters such as banter etc.
Anyways, great game guys, keep up the good work
Edit: assuming there was some kind of VISA sponsership in this game? <grin>
Thanks Skaven and CSI-Gamer too! We're really glad you enjoyed it!!
Yeah, can you pick out the other product placement deals? There were 4 or so!
Visa, HP computers, chrysler, dyson
last year.... visa, nokia, GMC, and scandisc
I'm a bit torn between playing it on my PC (while it's quite outdated I doubt I'll have any problems with the game, at least judging from the previous games) or lazily in bed on the 360 + HD TV...
The PC is good if you like using the mouse, and if you want extra-snappy load times.
I tested the game a lot on the 360 and I was very impressed with how it feels sitting on the comfy couch.