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Law & Order: Justice Is Served

Publisher: Legacy Interactive
Developer: Legacy Interactive
Year: 2004
Platform: Windows

The final installment by Legacy using the original Law & Order series, they finally cleaned up all of the annoying little design problems present throughout the first two games in the series.  Sadly, they failed to clean up all of the glaringly large design problems I outlined in my reviews of Dead On The Money and Double Or Nothing. In fact, they managed to get worse.

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Law & Order II: Double Or Nothing

Publisher: Legacy Interactive
Developer: Legacy Interactive
Year: 2003
Platform: Windows

I can nearly copy and paste my review from Dead On The Money.

Only two things were essentially changed in the second episode. One, there is blissfully no longer a time limit, giving you ample time to search the environment without the nagging (and unrealistically fast) clock. And, of course, the plot has changed. We’re still dealing with a murder, but this time it’s over a scientist and his breakthrough research and various interest groups involved with him.

Law & Order II: Double or Nothing Windows Getting started

The story line is slightly more engaging than that in the prequel, but the remaining flaws are still present. There are still lock-and-key puzzles that shouldn’t exist in a cop’s world. And, if it’s possible, this adventure is even easier, giving the beginner only a few obstacles over what amounts to a couple of days of play.

If you like the show or the first game, you’ll likely enjoy Double Or Nothing as well. But don’t look for any breakthroughs. At least the money on the actors wasn’t wasted.

Law & Order II: Double or Nothing Windows The preliminary hearing

Law & Order: Dead on the Money

Publisher: Legacy Interactive
Developer: Legacy Interactive
Year: 2002
Platform: Windows; Mac

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two, yet equally important, groups: the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.  These are their stories.

This premise for a one-hour television show has produced countless episodes, many Emmy awards, and two spin-offs. It was only a matter of time before it was transported to the PC. The flow of each episode is fairly linear (i.e. almost never is there a subplot) and is divided into concise chunks of time with few locations, thus making a port fairly simple, as opposed to, say, L.A. Law.

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