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a LOT longer than the others. Amazing story. Bonus game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be one of the best value buys you can get in adventure gaming. Not only do you get the first game as a bonus (which is of a good length and quite engrossing in itself), you also get a very compelling look into the world of women's professional tennis and the lengths that parents and promoters will go to in a Law and Order setting.

This is the 3rd in the series and it is the longest and most challenging so far. This is the first in the series to have actually stumped me in a few locations and for my first subpoena, I had NO idea what I was doing and made the strongest case get thrown out of court since I only included circumstancial evidence!

This will take you 10-15 hours, longer if you dont break down and look at a walkthrough. Even challenge aside, you will walk away well satisfied from a well told story and rigorous, and thorough conclusion. Highly recommended, and an amazing value

It's been awhile!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't a Law&Order fan until about a year and a half ago when I saw the second L&O game on the shelves of Best Buy. I read the back and was intrigued, considering I didn't even know what the show was about. I dropped the $30 for it like a bad habbit. IT WAS AWESOME! After a weekend of no sleep, I beat the game and bought the first L&O game of the internet. I've waited a long time for them to make a new one and it's great and worth every pennie!

Great story and a good time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played the first two law and order games, and this one is by far my most favorite. The graphics look really good and I got totally wrapped up in the story. I'm not really into sports (...) Lots of intresting puzzles and there are many creepy suspects, so I had to keep guessing who really did it. The other detective on the show Ed Green is in the game too, so I liked that he was there. I wished it was easier to figure out how to get search and arrest warrants since I got a little stuck a few times. But I figured out there were some hints and I got help! ;-). If you like the show you will really have fun getting to solve a case yourself like I did.

Good work - best of the three!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: October 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A good job, and a lot of fun. These games just get better and better!

Game play is smooth and intelligent, except for the irritatingly small number of saved game slots. Writing and acting are both topnotch, with three of the actors from the series doing voice work. Graphics are good and have improved dramatically, to the point where the characters' expressions match the emotion in their voices. Puzzles are mostly well-integrated into the plot; a few are a little unlikely, but since none of the puzzles are too difficult, I'm not going to fuss.

The time and space constraints that made the first two games so frustrating are completely gone, and you no longer have to choose whether you want to be smart or fast because you can't be both. It's really refreshing to see a game series that takes out the bad and leaves the good stuff -- thanks, guys!

Well worth your time whether you're a fan of the show or not.

Just didn't care for it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My review has mild spoilers.

I've never played the first two L&O games so I cannot compare Justice is Served with them but I can compare it to other adventure games. I didn't find the game interesting at all and I thought it was really cumbersome. Unless I missed something, in order to save a game the player has to access the Menu, select Save, choose a spot for the game (there were only about a dozen save slots), press Save which brings up the Menu again and then select Resume Game. That's an awful lot of steps when you're like me and saving every couple minutes. There is no autosave feature which would have made the process easier.

But the whole "Save" issue wouldn't be a big deal if I had liked the game. I just didn't find it interesting to spend most of the game asking people questions. Many questions/answers led to a new location to visit but when you get there there isn't much to do - minimal exploration (you find only a few hotspots and not all on them are relevant) and the puzzles are incredibly easy. Find something locked and you'll find the answer on an item you found at a hotspot - almost always at the same location you find the puzzle. The only puzzle I had a problem with was a musical one.

I got as far as the court room but the accused ended up being acquitted and I just didn't care enough to return to a saved game and retry the case. For me there just wasn't enough content to make the game interesting. I had just finished playing Myst III before playing Justice is Served so it is rather difficult to top that for gameplay.

Best of the Bunch!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing adveture games for years and was a big fan of the Law and Order show when the first of these games came out and was really impressed by that game. Of course there were some kinks, which is why I like this game the best in the series.

Just like the first two games, this new one does a great job of capturing the feeling of the show. The graphics are realistic and I loved that they use the voices of the actors on the show for the characters. It makes you feel like your in one of the episodes. I just wish they had used Sam Waterson's character. It took me about 14 hours to finish Justice is Served, mostly because there are more puzzles. (This game seemed longer than the last two.)

I've played other mystery/detective computer games before, but I think the Law & Order series is the best of the bunch!!

horrible!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

after playing the CSI games, i guess i'm spoiled. the graphics with Law and Order are pretty good, but navigating throughout the rooms gives me a headache, the instructions and hints are vague and worthless, and the case itself is boring. i unstalled it without even obtaining a search warrant.

I liked the old versions better!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is WAAAY too short. They took alot out from the last 2 and IMO it just wasn't as fun. They really should have had 2 cases going on at once with some link to each other in the end if they were planning on making it shorter than the other 2.

Mine came with a free copy of Dead on the Money... I wonder if they did that to apologize in advance...

Solid, entertaining game that plays like a TV episode!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The third of three L&O games this one comes with new features such as the 'Tell me about ...' feature that allows for a broader questioning phase (like you have person (or evidance) on file that you want to know more about you can ask witnesses about it), and does away with the detective strength/weaknesses that was part of the early games. This makes for a smooth, fluent entertaining game that gives you the feeling of being inside the TV show. This is the best game of the three as it has quite a few challenging puzzles, more witnesses and less patches to be downloaded (!!)
The bonus disks of 'Dead on the Money' work fine if you already have 'Law and Order II: Double or Nothing' installed on your computer. If not, you will need to download the patches off the offical webpage in order to play the bonus game. Also, in response to another review on this webpage, the time limit given in the bonus game can be turned off if at the beginning of the game you choose 'Efficiency' as one of your detective/lawyer strengths. The countdown is MUCH slower.

Just Not As Much Fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked the first two games much better than this one. This one was more frustrating, it just didn't "flow". I would often run out of things to ask people and would have to look at an on-line walk through, which I hate to do. It usually ended up being some silly thing I missed, but would have never thought of and/or didn't seem logical thing to do. The game didn't seem to have any sequence, like the others, and felt very "mixed up". The puzzles varied from very easy to medium difficulty. The dialog was very annoying, your partner constantly comments on every little thing, and I mean EVERY LITTLE THING! There were a few bugs in the game, freezing, jumping, etc. The graphics I did not feel were as good as the prior games and some of the characters voices were much lower than others. The plot was good, but again, not as much fun as the other 2 games. If you like the series, it's worth playing once, but don't expect it to be better than the first 2.

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