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It is very rare that a Ubisoft game gets under rated. CSI Hard Evidence has got very few to offer to the die hard fans of CSI tv series. It follows the same formula of other CSI games where the game pushes you in the right direction, comes up with clue when your stagnant at some part of the game and is very linear. The investigations aren’t actually investigating! There are a set of predefined questions to be asked to the characters involved and all the user needs to do is to make sure he clicks each and every one of those dumb questions. There is nothing more left for the user to think or analyze the crime scene.

The game has got just 5 cases each of which includes a murder ranging from a shot car driver to electrocuted rock band. Though the crimes scenes seems to be realistic and gives the cheeky feeling the game misses the Ubisoft’s touch as it is very easy and too linear. If you are stuck by chance at any place, there isn’t actually anything to worry about as the game is extremely easy and needs only some very obvious tricks to get through each level.

As a CSI agent you would first analyze the crime scenes and collect as much evidence as you can. If you aren’t good at it just move your mouse here and there and you would find the cursor switching its color at some points. These are the clues. So there isn’t actually anything like detecting and it doesn’t require any Sherlock Holmes to solve a case. On a positive note the game’s storyline is well written and logic-driven. It is just like watching a CSI show. Though solving is damn easy it is difficult to narrow the villain to a single character. Very rarely the guess turns successful when the CSI team gives the conclusion at the very end.

The animations and graphics don’t match any of the Ubisoft’s products. The lip-syncing and dialog delivery of the characters are very awful though the environment looks better. If you have already played the CSI games you aren’t really going to find anything new. Simply put, Hard Evidence is yet another disappointment from Ubisoft’s CSI series.