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CSI: Hard Evidence

CSI: Hard Evidence continues the crime-solving experience of Ubisoft’s CSI video game series. Players join Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and the rest of the Las Vegas cast to help solve crimes using realistic…

47 25 September 2007

CSI: Hard Evidence is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 25 September 2007 on Wii, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What CSI: Hard Evidence is

CSI: Hard Evidence is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2007. It is available on Wii, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.

The premise, in the publisher's words

CSI: Hard Evidence continues the crime-solving experience of Ubisoft’s CSI video game series. Players join Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and the rest of the Las Vegas cast to help solve crimes using realistic techniques and lab equipment. CSI: Hard Evidence features forensic reconstructions and atmospheric crime scenes taken directly from the television show, including an all-new garage lab for analyzing large evidence such as cars and boats, improved evidence gathering, review and lab mini-games, and more areas to explore, resulting in longer play experiences. CSI: Hard Evidence is a whole new game that’s all about the evidence and even more like the show, giving fans the experience of…
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How it plays

Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the CSI series

CSI: Hard Evidence is the fourth of 9 entries we hold in the CSI series. It arrived 2 years after CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. The next entry was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Dark Motives in 2007. Its critic score of 47 is 12 points below the series average of 59. The highest-rated entry is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at 80.

See all 9 CSI games in release order →

How it was received

CSI: Hard Evidence holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 4 hrs.

What it launched against

CSI: Hard Evidence launched on 25 September 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

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When did CSI: Hard Evidence come out?
CSI: Hard Evidence was released on 25 September 2007 for Wii, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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