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Law & Order: Dead on the Money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun. This game makes you look and listen real good. If you like the show, you will love the game.

Might be a great game -- if it worked!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love the TV program and thought the game sounded like a lot of fun. My husband bought it for me for Christmas and I immediately tried to install it on our desktop. No dice. The computer initially wouldn't even recognize one the CDs. I played around and that problem finally resolved itself. But then the video clips didn't play properly. I could hear sound, but there was no video. I was eventually able to get one or two the initial video clips to play, but it all went downhill from there and I was unable to get any further. I have had problems with Windows XP compatibility with other software, so assumed that might be the problem. (Even though the box says that it's XP compatible).
So I decided to install the program on my laptop (with a Windows 2000 OS). It started off fine. The opening music/theme song played, the initial video clip played (complete with sound), then the program screen shrunk into the upper right corner of my machine and locked up my laptop.
... From other's comments here, I see that Legacy Interactive has various patches on their website. However, I wanted to PLAY this game, not spend hours trouble-shooting, running diagnostics, and trying to determine which "patch" to install....

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its a great game if you are into the Law and Order Series thats on Tv. Its based on an episode from the tv show. Part one you play as a detective then part 2 You get to be a An assisnt DA or District Attorney and convict the Defendant Guilty of Murder.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: October 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so frustrating to run that I had to return it.After checking with Legacy's own website, my computer support tech, and the video card mfr., turning off my virus protection,and turning off anything else I could think of, the game still runs so slowly I'd be better off reading a book while it grinds to the next scene. Further, the instructions are very scanty and downright unhelpful in many instances. This is a good game to avoid unless technical problems are what you really enjoy playing!

would have been nice, if I could have played it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 32
Date: November 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being that Law and Order is one of my favorite shows, and detective/mystery games are also my favorite (in fact I am going to school for forensic science) I had to buy this game. Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to work on any computer that I have in my home. On my desktop it loads, but it is only a dark screen, on my lap top at least I get to see the beginning of the game (when they discover the body and the computer likeness of Briscoe lamenting about some days it's better to stay in bed) but that's about it. It was a great disapointment and one reason why I tend to shy away from buying games for the computer, vying more for playstation games, at least these are guarentee to load. Because stores never give refunds for open software, I'm stuck with a c.d.that I may never be able to play, dispite the fact that I added a new sound and video card. Oh well, enough of that. that is one reason that I rated it one star, though I heard that it was a very good game, I guess I'll have to hope and wait that it becomes a playstation game.

Yes, 4 stars...even w/ the bugs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit that at first this game seemed ridiculous. Going through weird pieces of evidence at the crime scene seemed like a waste of time to me and I didn't find the right thing for awhile so I was stuck. I felt a little silly sending cigarette butts to the crime lab. LoL. But once I got the hang of it, it was great. I was lucky to be able to check this game out for free at a local library. Otherwise, the bugs would have really bothered me. One other problem...for a game that stresses logic, the gameplay at time lacks it. I just thought it was odd that when something about a piece of evidence revealed something new about other evidence, the Researcher made no connection when you asked him for analysis again. Other than those things...and of course, the common error of the game freezing sometimes, it is well worth playing. Playing again? Maybe. It might be better to play the game in secret from another person, then have the other person play the game and you monitor their progress. That might be fun to see who solved it faster.

Flawed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had trouble with the game from the very beginning. I thought it was my computer and even had it looked at. Then I took the game back to the store and the person at the returns said she had three already come back that day and it was only noon.

I love the show and I really regret not being able to play the game. It looks like it would be alot of fun. I was glad to read that it wasn't just me and that so many others were having problems. I hope they can get it fixed.

Constant Lock ups

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is great, graphics, sounds, and concept is just like the TV show. The major issue I have with it is the fact that it constanly locks up. I'm running a PIII 733, 512mb Ram, 32 mb Video Card, 16 mb Sound card, and don't have such problems with other games which require a higher minimum system requirement. Due to these technical issues I've encountered with the game, I have not been able to complete it. It becomes extremely fustrating, especially if you've got something and getting hotter and closer to cracking the case. If it wasn't for all this lock up, the game would be great. The game is worth 1 star, even if there was an option for no stars, it still is worth 1 the 1 star I gave it.

Technically flawed, boring plot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Technically the game is a mess. Bugs, glitches and crashes plague the game from the beginning. The gameplay is horribly flawed and much of the game doesn't get right what other games have been doing right for 15 years. They use an FMV format but ditch live actors for bad pre-rendered models.

The plot is boooring. Instead of the typical way things are presented in the show, the game is almost forcively telling you to think different people did the crime when it's obvious they did not. There is no investigation, you jump through hoops the designers laid out to force gameplay mechanics on a flimsy story. None of the charectors are intriguing, they all fall flat. Everything is cliche'd and it all screams third-rate.

Technically flawed, boring plot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First thing that hits you n this game is the incredibly slow pacing and terrible technical flaws. Once you have the game working you face what is basically an FMV game. While that isn't necissaily bad, why they used bad 3d models instead of real actors is beyond me. The 3d used for the videos could have easily been done in real time, yet they use a disjointed fmv format. The game is also extremely wasteful of system resources, the requirements are very steep for something that had been done successfully on systems half as fast as what this game needs.

Then you move on to the plot that is, at best, a bad pisode of Law and Order. This is definitely not up to the level that the show has given us.

In all, it's just not worth the aggrivation of fighting the games bugs that force to to keep replayng parts of the game until you get lucky enough to miss the bugs.

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