Last year’s CSI: Deadly Intent was a bit of an ugly duckling, and something many of us would easily scoff at if we saw it in a store. Yet even though it was just a CSI version of Ace Attorney with a crime lab -- without a courtroom or anything in-game to object to -- there was something special about finding the killer’s DNA on a pair of undies. Not to mention some of the ridiculous cases you had to solve.

For this year’s CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, already their fourth CSI game, Telltale Games changed a few things and not necessarily for the better. But is this game really a crime against gaming?