CSI: Dark Motives (DS)

I watch alot of the CSI programmes on telly, so thought why not give the game a try. And I'm glad I did. There are 5 different crime scenes, and you work alongside the CSI team to solve them. There's also the mortuary and the lab from the telly programmes. The first crime scene is where a stuntman is badly injured during a stunt. You, along with one of the CSI team, have to figure out whether it was simply an accident or deliberate sabotage. Because you are running the show, you choose where to go. The obvious two locations are the crime scene and the hospital to talk to the stuntman. You use a variety of tools to find evidence. When you have you ...  Read the complete review

CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) : Dark Motives is a game for the Nintendo DS, based on the television series, and requiring you solve various different cases with logical thought and using various tools to examine the crime scenes. The game controls can be quite fiddly, giving the appearance that the game is more of a port from the PC versions of the game released a few years ago, rather than the game being re-designed to meet the requirements of the Nintendo DS itself. Using the Nintendo's stylus is very fiddly on occasions, with a lack of thought in my mind being given to the actual playing of the game. The plot of the game is that there are five ...  Read the complete review

I have never watched CSI on TV, but I do like a good mystery game to get my brain cells thinking. I was intrigued by CSI Dark Motives for the ds when I bought a CSI game for my WII. The two games were different with different storylines which was good as I find that if they are the same I never want to buy on more than one console no matter how different the controls might be. ** Outline of the game ** You play a new Crime scene investigator (CSI) in this game, working with the stars of the TV show, Catherine, Warwick, Nick, Sarah, Greg, Al and Jim. The game is set over five levels, each of which presents a different murder / mystery case for you to ...  Read the complete review

CSI Dark Motives is not the type of game I would normally pick up but when I bought a game as a gift from Game from the buy one get one free range there was not much to pick from the free range so I decided to give it a try. The object of the game is to collect the evidence to solve the crimes in each chapter of the game. In chapter one for example a stuntman has been injured and you have to work out who sabotaged the set causing him to be injured. The game features characters from the CSI show. A fan of the show might appreciate seeing Grissom or Catherine Willows on their small screen but for someone like me who has only ever seen a single episode ...  Read the complete review

This is quite a good game, involving all the characters from the Tv show (first series) included humourous dialogues from them. It's very exciting especially watching the live reconstructions however these videos have writing along the bottom and often go way too fast to read - certainly read as well as watch. Most of these go into a file which you can play over again although some you can only watch once which was frustrating. It has different settings such as the tutorial mode (good for when you fist play it) and the evidence hotspot setting which means that the cursor goes green when over something which you can examine in more detail. Having always played ...  Read the complete review