Law & Order: Criminal Intent

aka: Criminal Intent, Law & Order 4, New-York: Section Criminelle, Закон и порядок: Преступный умысел, 法律与秩序:犯罪动机
Moby ID: 19866

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Solve intriguing, true-to-life murder mysteries in this adventure game, the 4th one based upon the popular Law & Order television series which, like the ones before it, features voice-overs by the actors and actresses from the show. Unlike the previous games, however, Criminal Intent is played using a 3rd person perspective rather than 1st.

Players will control the persona of New York Detective Robert Goren as he hits the streets in search of the killers. Use modern day investigative tricks of the trade to communicate and analyze information and evidence. Choose the manner in which Goren questions witnesses and suspects to try and get answers to important questions during interrogations: confrontational, deceptive, flattering, deceptive, straightforward and empathetic. Using your instinctive powers of deduction, put everything together to build criminal profiles and "get inside the mind" of the murderers.

As Goren, players will need to investigate 3 different homicides, each with different scenarios, evidence, witnesses, suspects and motives. You are able to switch between Goren's available cases at will and return to them when ready. Then, a 4th murder occurs which brings to light a much larger plot connecting them all.

The game features a point-and-click interface, 3 difficulty levels (which control the amount of helpful hints you receive), a travel map, inventory objects to collect and use, as well as over 50 speaking non-player characters.

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Detective Robert Goren
Captain James Deakins
Laura Douglas, Caroline Higgins, Hanna Pritchard, Suzanne Stokes, Andrea Warren
Jenna Kirkwood, Jennifer Lee, Carla Meyers, Stephanie Novitsky, Barbara Rodriguez, Rosa Sanchez, Rachael Warren
Marjorie Atkinson
Crime Scene Tech, George Bennett, Frederick Grant, Tom Kirkwood, Tony Piovani, Gerald Stokes
Travis Chase, Jerry Fulton, Samir Kumar, Ian Lancaster, Richard Maloney, Hal Rudolph, Howard Schaffer
Tim Bradshaw, Alex Chang, Stephen Finch, Emilio Sanchez, Bill Yamada
Kathy Dillard, Gayle Pearson, Helen Reynolds, Colleen Schuster, Sandy Webber
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Rupert Brown, Dennis Campbell, Ed Clemmons, Gordon Dixon, Walter Harris, John Lassiter, Jack Morgan,
James Bellotti, Marvin Deane, Frank Doherty, Spencer Hastings, Xavier Mendoza, Charlie Timmerman, Rene Vaughn-Deardon
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Average score: 62% (based on 25 ratings)

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Reception

This is the fourth game to get 0 out of 5 stars from Computer Gaming World. The three other games given a 0 out of 5 by this magazine include (in the order of when they were reviewed) Postal 2, Mistmare, and Dungeon Lords.

Release

Beginning in 2006 Legacy Interactive is releasing the 4 murder cases of Criminal Intent for download as individual episodes.* Episode 1: The Vengeful Heart * Episode 2: Dark Obsession * Episode 3: Deadly Love * Episode 4: Fatal Conclusion

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Game added November 10, 2005. Last modified August 7, 2023.