CSI New York PC Game

I have for sometime been a fan of the CSI PC Games. In the past I have found them intreguing enough to while away the hours: sifting through evidence, checking finger print and DNA matches and interviewing witnesses/suspects, as well as getting the low down on techincal info from the Crime lab experts. With that in mind the new CSI New York game caught my eye as a must have addition to the others" CSI, CSI Dark and CSI Miami(the last one being my favoirte).

I have only played about half of the first mission but from what I have seen so far the game seems to have gone down hill abit. In the first three games you became very much a part of the investigation with the freedom to pick and choose who you interviewed, what you asked and where you conducted your searches etc. The vibe I have picked up so far is that you are very much restricted to a set pattern of where to go and as for the animation, though I will say has improved as far as scenery etc the people you interact with don't bother moving their mouths when they speak, which use to happen in the previous games.

There are of course a lot of new and improved things that I do like about the game such as the realistic x-rays in the mortuary and the idea of tracing the outline of a pool of blood to get DNA matches. There are also items you can pickup and show to witnesses/suspects as promps for furthering info on the crime. Of all the changes I think the idea of tracing a line from one side of the screen to the other without touching anyother items to make a computer match to find out more info on a suspect. Before hand Grishim would do all that sort of thing for you on his laptop or you could use the Lab Computer system instead. I also miss the original cast.

Anyhow I'm sure I'll get use to it after awhile. I don't play many computer games, so it is a real pain when the ones I do play end up not as good as I had hoped. At present I only own about half a dozen games: CSI,CSI Dark Motives, CSI Miami, CSI New York, Starship Titanic (Douglas Adams-will blog about this later), Abes Oddysse - Oddworld, Last Express (murder mystery on a trian), Neverhood, Riven and The Crystal Key.

Blog you all later.