Product Description

CSI: Hard Evidence Wii Join forces with the CSI team and tackle Las Vegas' most disturbing murders -- from a gruesome arson attack to a frenzied shootout. It's all about the evidence, and more like the hit TV show than ever before.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2058 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 17346
• Published on: 2008-01
• Released on: 2008-01-16
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Break down the evidence and bring suspects to justice in five all-new, bizarre crimes. Unravel longer cases, search bigger crime scenes and uncover hidden evidence in unique locations like never before
• Master new forensic tools and find more evidence than ever. Use the new garage lab to examine large pieces of evidence like cars and trucks
• Recreate gunfights with ballistic lasers, uncover shocking secrets with video analysis, and much more
• Experience your very own CSI episodes as you piece together clues with the real CSI actors
• Take part in dramatic interrogations to create grisly crime reenactments and explore atmospheric crime scenes inspired by the show

Customer Reviews

CSI Rocks My Socks
I like to watch CSI which is what sucked me into to start playing. I've actually owned the first two games for the computer and when Hard Evidence came out for the Wii i was all over it.

There are some major pros to having it on Wii rather than PC. It's more interactive pointing and clicking and using your PDA and changing locations and finding bugs. Not only that i can sit on the comfort of my own couch instead of at the computer.

If you have played on PC before than you know they try to relate some of the cases to each other as you progress. Which they have done this time. I want to say you solve something like 6 cases, all of which take more and more time to solve it seems. Each case has taken anywhere from 2-4 hours (assuming you don't skip anything and watch all the videos and extras). I don't want to give away what the cases are, but as you go along in the cases you recieve more locations to travel to, and more evidence to process. Some analysis tools you don't even use until a couple cases in.

You can turn on what i like to refer to as the "cheat" mode which allows you to see if you have done everything you can with your evidence, or you can turn it off so it makes the game more challenging.

Pros:
-Very interactive
-They show the videos like they do in the series
-You work with the entire team of CSI
-The bonus extras
-Mind challenging, gets the wheels turning
-Overall it's just a fun game, my girlfriend doesn't really like to play video games much, but this is one of the few we play together
-It only takes the Wiimote to control, no nunchuck

Cons:
This actually is a rather large con. I think they put so much graphics into one disc for such a whimpy (space and capability wise) system it causes the game to freeze.

It was in the first case and it went to load and then nothing happened. Just sat there frozen with the loading screen. You can tell it's trying to catch up with it's self sometimes because it starts to repeat the words that are comming out until the video catches up.

As of now it has only happened once (the freezing) but the lag in the video/sound happens multiple times per case. Not enough to miss any important information, but enough to just kind of make you stop for a second and hope that it won't freeze up on you again. Thats the reason it got an overall rating of only 3.

You can check out my other reviews if youd like to see if we have the same game interests, but i think this is an enjoyable game for any frame of mind.

Average
I had high hopes for this game, and was pretty much disappointed. The cases were interesting, but the games took so long to load that I got bored and frustrated quickly. The product placements got really old too.
The graphics were not up to current game standards. I gave this game a 3 star because the cases were interesting and challenging. The game just needs a bit more refinement.

Good Game...went by too quickly
I really enjoyed the CSI game for Wii. The cases were clever and challenging enough to be interesting. My biggest complaint however is the time taken to play. There were 5 cases, each took me 60-90 minutes to solve. I understand a lot of information goes into each case and you can only fit so much on a disc, but for $50 I would have liked to get more play-time out of it. That and the bonus items you get for doing well on a case are pretty 'eh'. Once you know the type of bonus you get it really doesn't provide much motivation to re=play the case and try to do better.

The interface is very similar to PC games I've played... you move the cursor to where you want to go, if it turns into an arrow, you can go there. I found this a bit restrictive compared to the other Wii games I've played, but once I got used to it, navigation became easy.

Definitely a good purchase. I will definitely be buying the next installment if there is one, but hope that there will be improvements made.