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CSI: Dark Motives

CSI: Dark Motives is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. The game was developed by 369 Interactive, published by Ubisoft, and was released for the PC in 2004. In…

70 23 March 2004

CSI: Dark Motives is an adventure developed by 369 Interactive, released 23 March 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What CSI: Dark Motives is

CSI: Dark Motives is an adventure game developed by 369 Interactive and released in 2004. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

CSI: Dark Motives is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. The game was developed by Radical Entertainment, published by Ubisoft, and was released for the PC in 2004. In November 2007 it was remade by Powerhead Games, published by Ubisoft and released for Nintendo DS. The Microsoft Xbox version of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation also contains the cases featured in this game.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the CSI series

CSI: Dark Motives is the second of 9 entries we hold in the CSI series. It arrived 12 months after CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The next entry was CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder in 2006. Its critic score of 70 is 11 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: Dark Motives holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

CSI: Dark Motives launched on 23 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.

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When did CSI: Dark Motives come out?
CSI: Dark Motives was released on 23 March 2004 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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