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0 Have you ever wanted to become a forensic specialist within the Police? Well, with the release of Forensics: Crime Scene Detective, you now have the chance. Developed by Binary Impact & Alchemical Works and published by Aerosoft GmbH, Crime Scene Detective is available to buy now.
If you’re quick, you can buy Crime Scene Detective for £17.99. This 20% discount is available until the 27th of July. After this date, it is £22.49.
Gameplay
Based on the experience and insights of the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate, you become a forensic specialist in this realistic simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect evidence, and identify perpetrators. Your work is purely based on fact, with several methods at your disposal. Beginning at your desk, you are handed a case file. Within this case file, you will find all relevant documents. The circumstances of the crime give you an idea of what you are looking for. A drug dealer arrested? Start looking for phones and passwords. A murder? Well, you can guess what you need to look for!
Once you’re at the scene, that is where the real work starts. Finding the evidence is the first step; you then have to secure and obtain the evidence. To get the perfect score, photographs must be taken of the item or fingerprint in situ. Then, you can use your professional tools to collect the evidence. Thankfully, there are 4 levels of the tutorial whereby you are taught each method individually before you’re thrown into the real world.
After collecting your evidence through a DNA swab, fingerprint powder or a ballistic trajectory rod, you then need to analyse it. Analysing it is the most important part. The players’ analytic work is what determines the fate of those involved. Get it wrong, and you might just be locking up an innocent person. Like collecting your evidence, there are different types of analytic work you can do. This could involve matching fingerprints by similarities or matching DNA. My favourite part, however, was the analysis of the digital devices. Here, you need to heat the chip located in the device to soften it. Then, you use a vacuum to remove the device. Once this has been completed, you can then put it into your computer to export the data. However, to do this, you need to make sure you have found the password whilst at the crime scene.
Always check your work, and then check again
While there is ‘Detective’ in the name of the game, you are not exactly a detective. Rather, you’re doing the due diligence when it comes to the evidence. You are not the person trying to make the links or trying to work out the reasons why a crime has taken place. I think that some people will be disappointed with this if they come into the game expecting that kind of thing.
Graphics & Audio
In terms of graphics, this is not a game to write home about. It simply does the job. I certainly get the feel of being at a crime scene or being in the laboratory, but there is nothing extraordinary. Sometimes it is nice to have that simplicity. The animations were seamless. I did not run into any issues when playing through the game. However, I did struggle with the camera angle when trying to take pictures of mobile devices in ‘odd’ places. This made it hard to get 100% on some levels, as I could not take the picture before collecting the evidence.
Thankfully, I did not run into any issues whilst playing. Loading times were quick, especially when travelling to and from the crime scene. However, I have seen that several players have been struggling with an issue whereby case files did not seem to load. This meant that players were completing 1 or 2 case files and then were unable to progress any further. However, since its release, there have been 4 patches that have focused on fixing issues such as these.
Longevity
Forensics: Crime Scene Detective offers 14 authentic cases that are inspired by real-life scenarios. While that is certainly a catalogue of cases, you can get through the cases pretty quickly. This, paired with the repetitiveness of what you’re doing, could lead to some people becoming bored. This just completely depends on how you are as a person. Sometimes I enjoy these types of games, especially when I want to switch off. But, other times I want a bit more.
Final Thoughts
The idea of Forensics: Crime Scene Detective sounds really good on paper; however, I am not sure if this has translated well. I can certainly see the game being rather repetitive and becoming tiresome to some people. However, if you’re a lover of simulation games, then this may be one to add to your list. I enjoyed the time I spent with the game, and I would be interested to see how it develops. However, it is not all there for me to say that it is a game that I would come back to again. Therefore, I will award Forensics: Crime Scene Detective with the Thumb Culture Silver Award.
Disclaimer: A code was received in order to write this review.
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