CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder

You'll have 5 bloody cases to solve as you play a rookie investigator with the Las Vegas crime lab. The first four ultimately connect together towards solving the 5th. Your co-workers are characters from the…

65 14 March 2006 ESRB M

What CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is a puzzle game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2006. It is available on PlayStation 2, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You'll have 5 bloody cases to solve as you play a rookie investigator with the Las Vegas crime lab. The first four ultimately connect together towards solving the 5th. Your co-workers are characters from the CSI television series and voice acting is done by the real actors and actresses from the show. Choose one of 3 levels of difficulty depending upon how familiar you are with the tv shows (and computer gaming in general). Those modes affect how much interactive help you receive inside the game - not from your co-workers, but by way of hotspots and evidence analysis. The game features a tutorial to help with the interface, which is point and click.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the CSI series

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is the third of 9 entries we hold in the CSI series. It arrived 2 years after CSI: Dark Motives. The next entry was CSI: Hard Evidence in 2007. Its critic score of 65 is 6 points above the series average of 59. The highest-rated entry is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at 80.

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How it was received

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 2,792 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder launched on 14 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.

Official trailer