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In the Video Game Review system the games are represented by two separate, yet equally
important groups, CGRUndertow who play the games and tell you what they think about them
and the YouTube community who persecute the reviews... These are their stories.
What’s up Undertoads, another game here from our friends at Telltale Games, it’s
Law & Order Legacies Chapter 1 Revenge.
So as you might guess, this game is about taking on the roles of the detectives and
lawyers from the hit show Law & Order, essentially you’re playing the show. You start off as
Detectives Curtis and Benson investigating the *** of a hotel maid.
But you’ll soon be questioning witnesses and suspects which is the meat of the game.
Unlike other Telltales games, there’s not as much point as there is click meaning you
won’t be going from location to location as the story moves along itself and stops
to let you to ask the questions and decide if people are telling the truth or stories
are matching up, etc, you know detective stuff. Answer correctly and you’re awarded a star,
miss and it’s a strike against you. Get enough stars to move on, don’t earn enough
or miss too many times and you’ll have to replay
the scene.
You can also find “red herrings” which award you extra points.
There was also a part where you had to look for clues at the scene of the crime. You did
this by looking around with the mouse and circling clues or things in the way of finding
clues. This only happened once though in chapter 1.
Once you’ve investigated enough and made some arrests it’s time for “order” to
step in and now you’re now playing the counselors in the court room. The game play is similar
in this mode, but now you’re trying to get the jury to side with you by asking the right
questions and objecting at the right time when it’s not your witness.
Throughout the game there’s a lot more cut scenes adding a bit of the behind the scenes
storytelling and connecting the dots so to speak. The game follows the format of the
show with the white text on black with the time and place and the familiar “dun, dun”
iconic to the show. The Characters resemble the actual actors, but with a bit more of
a cartoony look to them, also common to Telltale games. Unfortunately for die-hard fans, the
original cast did not do the voice acting in the game, but the understudies do a decent
job of letting you forget that pretty quickly.
Overall it’s a fun little game. It lacks a lot of depth as far the game-play goes,
but for what it is it does it well letting you experience the show which fans should
get a kick out of. I’m not really a regular watcher of the show myself, but I was still
able to get into it and had fun interviewing suspects, trying to solve the *** seeing
the story through from the first crime scene to the sentence of the criminals. You can
play Law & Order Legacies on PC/Mac, iPhone and iPad. It’s episodic so there will be
a bunch of different cases and lots to experience in Law & Order Legacies...