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Loved both Law & Orders.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I gave four stars because I want them to continue to make these types of games and without the bugs it is a fun game. I only play and buy adventure and mystery games. The second one didn't have any bugs for me and they made a few improvements, for example they got rid of the time limit and added checkmarks to the notepads.

If you have Javaw.exe error or Can't Start? Try This.

After applying the necessary patches for the 2-CD or 3-CD:

I have the 3 cd version and would get the javaw.exe error and application has to close message, so I couldn't even start the game (played it before but didn't finish, but didn't have that problem the first time.)

Solution=You have to always start the game with the first disc after quitting game.
open cd disc drive on my computer or windows explorer
open disc one
open install folder
open lawandorder (the application)
then wait and opening will start

Great First L&O PC Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This started a great series of PC games, I dont watch the show very much at all, but the games are great!! It is really addicting and you get to love to play the game!! I was reading through the reviews on this game, and people are complaining about the time limit. Well, if you choose the "Efficincy" skill it will slow time WAY down to the point where you will be done with the investigation part of the game before like an hour has passed. (in game time, not real time) It has a good storyline, suspicious, annoying, lying characters with secrets to protect, and it is fun to see what suspect you will interrogate next, what lab reports, research of items and people, the survailence unit to tail a suspect, the game is really fun. And when you get into court it is really hard but really fun to play, you don't even have to like the TV show, you will like this game!!! and any other of the two L&O PC games in the series. So Buy It!! Buy Them!!

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.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'd like to know who tested this game. Maybe a frozen screen is part of the game? I better not be wasting my money when I try the second version.

One of the worst games I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful. First of all, the requirements to run the game are ridiculous. Even after I got it working, it still crashes every once in a while and a reboot is necessary. As for the game itself, the plot is lame, the graphics are substandard, and I find it very frustrating that if you have to drop a piece of evidence because your case file is full, and later on you discover you needed it, you have to start over from a saved game where you still had that evidence. Also, it's almost a requirement to use the efficiency setting because you will never finish on time otherwise, even if you know exactly what you need. I got so sick of replaying the first half of the game over and over...and over again, to get the right evidence that I refuse to play the second half of it. I hate everything about this game.

Does this game ever work?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My husband gave me this game along with a brand new top of the line computer with an upgraded gaming chip for Christmas. I was a bit worried after reading the reviews from people that weren't able to get this game to run fully, but I convinced myself that it would work fine for me because of the capabilities of my new system. Wrong! I couldn't see anything but black screens on the evidence and precinct scenes. I followed all of the instructions on the Legacy site for fixing the problem, but the problem actually got worse instead of better! This game seemed like it could be neat; the question is whether anyone will ever find out!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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