When playing CSI: Hard Evidence, you think of lazyness, corner-cutting and csi: 3 dimensions of murder.
Let's break down the game for people that have never played a game in the CSI franchise. You basically play as a new CSI in Las Vegas' department for crime scene investigation. You have to solve 5 violent crimes, alongside your favorite characters from the show: Sarah, Greg, Catherine, Gill, Warrick and Nick.
Without ruining the plot or going too far deep into it, the basic principles are that of a standard adventure game, however it is first person as opposed to many adventure games' third-person views.
Advertisements from companies seem to litter the entire game, i counted at least 10 shameless VISA card advertisements, about 2 or 3 Chrysler promotions and an absolutely unlimited amount of HP computers, LCD tvs and a bunch of other things.
The other drawback to this game is that the writers and modellers got lazy at about the half way point and decided to reuse the sets over and over again. If you don't believe me, there are 3 cases that have 1 exact same room in common, 1 case has triplets (easy modelling), 2 cases have the same characters, and same voices as well. There are a few that i forgot, but the most notable ones in my mind were the: -Luxury Suite, High-Roller room, Recording Studio.
The corner-cutting does not end there, the videos are not only taken directly from CSI the show, but every item used (for example ballistics) has the same video when clicked on.
I feel for the developers of this game, i really do, but this is an absolute disaster of a game. I will give them one thing, the stories are somewhat descent, but they all seem to be very cut-corner.
The graphics are nothing to praise either, the game is virtually IDENTICAL to CSI: 3 dimensions of murder. Brass' office is the same, Grissom's office as well and the lab does not look much different either, except the HP computer branding everywhere.
Overall, this game was half descent, but the lack of difficulty left me wanting more, a lot more. I think that if i go to the store and claim that i cant play this "demanding" game on my computer so that i can get my money back, having only beaten the game in 8 hours.