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The murder investigation theme was chosen first by the developers, who decided to make the game in the hidden object genre due to it making both business and personal sense. [4] Just two months after the games launched, it had one million daily active users.
This category is a list of video games with gameplay or plot simulated in solving crimes and apprehending criminals featuring any fictional detectives. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
In the United States, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation debuted at #3 on the NPD Group's computer game sales rankings for the week ending April 5, 2003. [16] The title remain in the weekly top 10 through April 26, [17] [18] [19] and became the country's seventh-best-selling computer game of April overall, with an average retail price of $30. [20]
In the November–December 1984 edition of Space Gamer (Issue 71), William A. Barton gave high marks for this game, saying, "the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Game is the best mystery game I've ever had the privilege to be stumped by. After acing most games of Clue or 221B Baker Street with no sweat, it's a refreshing feeling. The folks ...
In Japan, Game Machine listed Special Criminal Investigation on their December 1, 1989 issue as being the second most-successful upright arcade unit of the month. [21] It went on to become Japan's third highest-grossing dedicated arcade game of 1990, below Super Monaco GP and Winning Run Suzuka GP. [22]
True Crime: Streets of LA is a 2003 open world action-adventure video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in November 2003, for Microsoft Windows in May 2004, and by Aspyr for Mac OS X in March 2005. A mobile phone adaptation was released in November 2004. [8]
The game uses live actors and sets as the player controls Sherlock Holmes and his longtime partner Dr. Watson, trying to solve three separate crimes by visiting various locations, listening to the dialogue, reading the included mock London newspapers, and, when the player gets enough evidence, answering the judge's questions.
L.A. Noire is an action-adventure neo-noir crime game. Played from a third-person perspective, the game is set in an open-world environment featuring Los Angeles in 1947. The player completes cases to progress through the story, fulfilling objectives in a generally linear order; as they roam the open world, the player can also complete optional street crimes—short, linear scenarios with set ...