CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (Game Review + Walkthrough)

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CSI is one of the most popular American TV show franchises in history. But can the excitement and popularity of this CBS TV show make a good video game? We were skeptical but decided to give CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder a try.

In CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder, you work alongside the Las Vegas TV cast and help them solve intense cases and investigate crimes using cutting-edge techniques and real-world forensic equipment. Just like in the CSI TV show, you visit the scene of a crime, interview suspects and collect and analyze physical evidence. But the video game also has you using puzzle-solving and interrogation skills to establish a relationship between the suspect, the victim and the crime scene.

Usually, video games based on TV shows or movies, suck. But CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder is particularly well done. The cases are fun, complicated, and full of the same kinds of plot twists and surprises that you would expect from the TV show. Graphics, writing, and voice acting are all first rate as well.

If you are a parent, take the “Mature” rating seriously. The game isn’t scary, just gory with lots of adult situations. There’s also a case where you have to take a sample of sexual fluid. Great gritty stuff for fans of the show, but not exactly appropriate for young kids.

In case you get stuck, here’s a walkthrough for each level of the game.

1. Pictures of an Execution
2. First Person Shooter
3. Daddy’s Girl
4. Rough Cut
5. The Big White Lie
6. Poor Mom, Rich Mom

NERD NOTE: CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder, like the previous CSI games, CSI Crime Scene Investigation, CSI Miami, and CSI Dark Motives, follows a distinct pattern of 5 cases, with the fifth case tying together the previous 4

Case #1: Pictures at an Execution

A rich out-of-owner is bludgeoned to death in a posh art gallery the day before her wedding. The suspected murder weapon? An expensive hawk statue that’s missing. You work with Warrick Brown on this case.

Art Gallery:

• Talk with Nathan Ackerman and ask him all the questions. After you talk to Nathan, you should get the following Patrick Milton’s phone number, fiancee’s name “Mark Stock”, victim’s name “Rachel Maddox”, as well as Nathan’s fingerprints.
• Look around the gallery. A sculpture is missing. Take a closer look at the name-plate. Dust to find a fingerprint.
• There’s a body on the floor. Snap a photo.
• Zoom in on victim’s face and get a blood sample.
• The victim is wearing a ring. Take the ring.
• Take a picture of the bloody footprint near the victim.
• Take the purse.
• Snap a photo of the blood splatter on the wall and get a blood sample.
• Zoom in on victim’s left arm, get the piece of fiber.
• Talk to Nathan Ackerman again. There are new questions. He will now give you a photo of the missing sculpture. It’s a hawk.
• He has a blood on his shoe. Get a sample.

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins to recover the body.
• Ask all questions.
• He’ll give you a small fibrous material sample, victim’s fingerprints, and a body fluid sample.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to select fingerprints.
• Compare Nathan Ackerman’s prints with the fingerprint from the pedestal. Then confirm match.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to select Shoe prints and tire treads.
• Compare Nathan’s shoe with the smudged print. Then confirm match.
• Use DNA Analysis Computer to compare the swab of victim’s blood with the blood on Nathan’s shoe. Then confirm match.
• Compare the victim’s blood sample with the blood splatter sample. Then confirm match.
• Add semen from victim and search. Compare it to the 5 samples, one will match. Sample D.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to select the fiber. Compare it to the 5 samples. Sample D is a match!

Brass Office:

• Ask Brass all the questions.
• Brass will take you to Mark Stock. Ask him all the questions.
• A new location will get added – Hotel Room.
• Go back to Brass Office: Ask all new questions.
• A new location will get added – Artist Studio.

Hotel Room:

• Take the letter from the table.
• Take phone number from the desk drawer.
• Go into the bedroom, use the flashlight on the bed.
• Take shirt. Look for blood on the shirt and take a swab sample.

Artist Studio:

• Chat with Patrick Milton and ask all possible questions. He will give you a cassette tape and a can of paint brushes.
• Zoom in and take a paint sample and fiber from the paint can.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the shirt and compare it to the victim’s blood sample. Then confirm match.
• Use Chemical Analysis Machine. Add paint stain and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to choose audio/visual, add cassette tape and click play.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to compare the two fibers, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions.

Crime Scene:

• Ask Nathan Ackerman new questions. He’ll give you the keys to the Art Gallery
• Zoom in and get a blood sample.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer to compare victim’s blood with the blood sample from the keys. Then confirm match.
• A warrant will be available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Get the search warrant for Nathan Ackerman’s back office.

Gallery Office:

• Zoom in on the notebook on the desk, swab slippery substance.
• Click the scissors on the desk.
• Go to the right of the screen, get close-up of the roundtable, take a sample of the powdery substance.
• Take eagle sculpture from the stand.
• Examine the safe.
• Take shredded paper.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add slippery substance and search. Compare it with the 5 samples. Sample C will match.
• Use the Chemical Analysis Computer to add powdery substance and search.
• Use the Assembly Table, add the shredded letter and put it together.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins about the eagle sculpture.

Brass Office:

• Get the search warrant for Nathan Ackerman’s safe.

Gallery Office:

• Take bank records and a bag of powder.

Lab:

• Use the Chemical Analysis Computer to add the bag of powder and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to go to search links/special
• Add Ackerman’s bank records and search.

Brass Office:

• Get the warrant for Nathan Ackerman for questioning.
• Ask Nathan all the questions. Will get phone number for a bookie.
• Go back to Brass Office: Ask about the alibi.

Artist Studio:

• Ask Patrick Milton new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask for the warrant for Mark Stock for questioning.
• Ask Mark all the questions.
• Go back to Brass’ office. Ask about the murder weapon.
• Get hawk sculpture and go to the lab.

Lab:

• Zoom in on the hawk sculpture from the dumpster. Get a sample of blue oily substance on the chest and a blood sample from the beak. Rotate to hawk to see all areas.
• Use the Chemical Analysis Computer to add oily blue stain and search.
• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood sample from the hawk’s beak and compare it to the victim’s blood and confirm.

Brass Office:

• Get the search warrant for the Artist’s Studio.

Artist’s Studio:

• Chat with Patrick Milton. Enter studio.
• Look at painting, take it. In the close-up of painting, take a sample of the blue paint.
• Go to the file cabinet, take the bag of powdery substance.
• Click on the statue of the woman.
• Go up the stairs, look in the opened box and take ripped tickets. In close-up, turn the tickets over to get a fingerprint.

Lab:

• Use the Chemical Analysis Computer to add a sample of the blue paint and powdery substance and search.
• Trace Analysis Computer, add the fingerprint from tickets and victim’s fingerprints. They match.

Brass Office: Ask for the arrest warrant for Patrick Milton. Ask Patrick all the questions.

CASE CLOSED!!! 

Case #2: First Person Shooter

You are working with Nick Stokes to uncover the truth behind what occurred at a video game expo gone wrong. The CEO of a video game company on the verge of a high-profile release is shot dead at the biggest gaming trade show of the year. Life imitating art, or something more sinister?

This case is a dramatic, humorous send-up of the cancellation and subsequent fan reaction surrounding Sam & Max Freelance Police, a game many Telltale employees had worked on pre-cancellation.

NERD NOTE: The CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder demo features a portion of this case.

Game Booth:

• Chat with Maya Nguyen and ask all possible questions.
• Take a picture of the victim.
• Zoom in on the rifle and take it. Get fingerprint off of the rifle.
• Look at the blood near the head, take the sample.
• Get the sample of the gunshot residue from the forehead.
• Swab the blood from the chest.
• Take wallet.
• Look at the Gut Wrench III poster. Get bullet from the wall next to the poster.
• Click on the left speaker. Go left of Maya. Zoom in on the shirt on the chair, take it.
• Go to weapon case, take .45 automatic gun. Find a fingerprint near the lock.
• Chat with Maya. Ask new question. Will get her fingerprints and GSR (gun shot residue)

Mobile Analysis Unit:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the rifle and search, compare to the 5 samples, no match.
• Add Maya’s fingerprints and compare them to the rifle print. Then confirm match. Warrant available from Brass.
• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the floor, compare it to the victim’s DNA, confirm match.

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins to recover the body. Ask all questions. He’ll give you a bullet from the body. Ask the rest of the questions.
• Zoom in on the victim’s chest, look at the bruise and take a picture.

Brass Office:

• Ask Brass all the questions. Will add a new location.

Motel Room:

• Chat with Andy Penmore and ask all possible questions. Will get Andy’s fingerprints and GSR (gun shot residue).
• Look at the salad on the table.
• Look at the bag on the edge of the bed and near the pillow.
• Zoom in on the nightstand, take the business card.
• Look to the left near the pillow, take scorpion.
• Go to the laptop and click on it, it’ll bring you closer to it, then click it again. Click on the globe icon. Click on the white envelope icon. Then click the open envelope, it will say its encrypted. Click on the computer again, this time the cursor will be green. The collection/detection tools will pop up. take the flash drive and click it on the laptop.
• Look at the poster over the sink, take the promotional picture.
• Chat with Andy. Ask new questions.

Morgue:

• Look at the victim’s left foot, take a picture.
• Ask Doc Robbins new questions.

Lab:

• Go to the Search links/special, add Stan’s business card and search.
• Add encrypted email and search.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add bullet from the wall and the bullet from the body, turn one of the bullets until they line up, click confirm match.

Motel Room:

• Ask Andy new questions.
• Get the receipt for a rented movie.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions.
• Get Stan’s cell phone.
• There’s a partial fingerprint on the back of the phone.
• Talk to Brass again.

Lab:

• Go over to the Assembly Table
• Add .45 automatic gun.
• Click on the barrel and slide it left.
• Click on the handle and slide it down.
• A bullet will come out of the chamber.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to compare bullet from the .45 to the one from the body. They don’t match but at least you ruled it out.

Motel Room:

• Talk to Andy.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Maya Nguyen.
• Ask all the questions.
• A new location will get added – Convention Center Parking Garage.

Convention Center Parking Garage:

• Ask Craig Landers all the questions.

Motel Room:

• Ask Andy new questions.

Convention Center Parking Garage:

• Ask Craig Landers new questions. You’ll get a ring from him.

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins new questions.

Brass Office:

• Talk to Brass.
• A new location will get added – Gun Club.
• Ask Brass to talk to Maya and ask her all the questions.

Gun Club

• Ask salesperson all the questions.
• Take the firing range target from the first lane. Use the control box.

Convention Center Parking Garage

• Ask Craig new questions.
• Warrant available from Brass.
• Get fingerprints and GSR (gun shot residue) from Craig.

Brass Office:

• Ask for the search warrant for Craig Lander’s SUV.
• Ask to speak to Maya and ask all possible questions.

Convention Center Parking Garage

• Tell Craig about the warrant.
• Take the .22 handgun out of the back of the SUV.
• Look on the floor in the back seat area and take the box.

Lab

• Use the Assembly Table.
• Add Craig’s .22 handgun.
• Remove the barrel and cartridge.
• Go to the Comparison Microscope and analyze Craig’s .22 bullet and the bullet from the body.

Gun Club

• Ask new questions.
• Get bullet from the wall.

Lab

• Use the Assembly Table.
• Add adapter from the CSI Reserves.
• Take the gun apart and put the adapter on it.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to compare the bullet from the gun club to the bullet from the body.
• Compare bullet from the .45 automatic gun with the CSI Reserves adapter and bullet from the body.
• Line them up and confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask new question. Ask to talk to Maya. Ask new question.

Motel Room:

• Ask Andy new questions. He will let you use a flash drive on his PDA.
• Zoom in on the bag on the edge of the bed.
• Click the PDA, then click the file’s icon, use the flash drive.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the weapon case and Craig’s fingerprints. Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to Search Links/Special, add the encrypted file from Andy’s PDA and search.

Brass Office: 

• Ask for a warrant for Craig Landers for interrogation. Ask all the questions.

Brass Office: 

• Ask to speak to Maya and ask all possible questions. She’ll give you her flash drive.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to search links/special, add Maya’s flash drive and search.

Brass Office:

• Ask new question. Will get the adapter from the gun, found in the dumpster.
• In the close-up view, find the fingerprint.

Lab:

• Use the Assembly Table, add adapter from the dumpster.
• Take the gun apart and add the adapter from the dumpster. Will get the bullet.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add bullet shot with the adapter from the dumpster and bullet from the victim’s body, line them up and confirm match.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the adapter found in the dumpster and Andy Penmore’s prints. Then confirm match. Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Andy Penmore. Ask all the questions.

CASE 2 CLOSED. 

Case #3: Daddy’s Girl

A casino heiress has been victimized in her apartment. The crime scene is crawling with blood spatters, fibers, and fingerprints – all that’s missing is the body. In this CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder case, you work with Sara Sidle.

Crime Scene:

• Chat with Michael Dubois and ask all possible questions.
• Zoom in on blood in front of the kitchen counter, swab it.
• Zoom in on the blood on the wall to the left of Sara, take a picture.
• Zoom in on the floor just in front of Sara, find neck chain, take it.
• Take picture of the blood on the floor, in front of the vase.
• Zoom in on blood on the floor, in front of the vase, get swab of blood smear.
• Get notepad from the kitchen table, in close-up, find imprint from message.
• Go right of screen for close-up of the couch, get semen sample from the pillow.
• Go towards the table in front of the window, find footprint and take a picture.
• Look at the window, to find a piece of plastic.
• Zoom in on the desk between Sara and Michael, find indentation on middle drawer.
• On the right side of the desk, find a fingerprint.
• Go to the front door, snap a photo of footprint.
• Find keys on the doormat, while in close-up of the key, find waxy substance.
• Chat with Michael. Ask new questions. Get his shoe, while in close-up, get blood sample from the sole. Will also get DNA sample. Will add 2 new locations.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the floor and blood from Michael’s shoe. Then confirm match.
• Add blood from smear and blood on the floor. Then confirm match.
• Add semen sample and Michael’s DNA, not a match.
• Chemical Analysis Machine, add residue from the key and search. Add the piece of plastic and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe prints/tire threads, add Michael’s shoe and photo of bloody footprint. Then confirm match.
• Trace Analysis Computer, add fingerprints from the desk and search, compare the 5 samples, one matches (result D). Then confirm match.
• Try to add the photo of the blood on the wall and the photo of the blood smear on the wall, the response will be, maybe Doc Robbins will be able to help with this.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add neck chain to see a cutscene.

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins all the questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask all the questions. Take Carrie’s glasses from the couch.
• While in close-up, find a strand of hair.
• Zoom in on glasses again, turn them around to get a sample of a creamy substance.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add hair strand and blood on the floor. Then confirm match.
• Then compare the hair strand DNA to each of these blood on wall, blood from smear and blood from Michael’s shoe. Confirm match with each sample.
• Chemical Analysis Machine, add creamy substance and search.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Lucy’s Office:

• Ask all the questions. Will get DNA sample.
• Continue with the questions. Will add new location.
• Zoom in on the letter opener on the desk, take it.
• While in close-up, find blood and swab it.
• Look at the calendar and notice appointment with her sister.
• Go to the left of the desk to find torn paper in the garbage.
• Ask Lucy new questions. Will get speeding ticket.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add Lucy’s DNA and blood on the floor.
• Add Lucy’s DNA and blood from the letter opener.
• Use the Assembly Table, add torn paper and put the pieces together.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions.

Skyler Hospital:

• Chat with the nurse, Alex Porterson. Ask all the questions.

Lucy’s Office:

• Ask all the questions. Will get a note and Lucy’s shoe.
• While in close-up, get a sample from the shoe.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis Machine, add stain from Lucy’s shoe and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe prints/tire treads, add Lucy’s shoe and the photo of partial footprint near window, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions. Will get Carrie’s phone records.

Lucy’s Office:

• Ask new questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Skyler Hospital:

• Ask new questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Skyler Hospital:

• Ask new questions. Zoom in on the cup, take it. Get saliva sample and fingerprint from the cup.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add coffee cup print and search.
• Compare the 5 samples, one will match (result C). Then confirm match.
• DNA Analysis Computer, add saliva sample and semen from the sofa, confirm match.

Skyler Hospital:

• Ask new questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new question.

Skyler Hospital:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask new question. Talk with Michael. Ask new questions. Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant, to search Michael’s Apartment.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Go to the kitchen counter, to find a knife.
• While in close-up get a blood sample.
• Zoom in on the cabinet to the left of the refrigerator, find a folder. While in close-up, turn the folder over to find a fingerprint. Zoom in on folder again, to find and take screwdriver.
• Go outside to the balcony and find a trash can near the BBQ. Take some plastic from the plastic bag.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the folder and search. One will match (result D). Then confirm match.
• DNA Analysis Computer, add blood from the knife and blood from the floor. Then confirm match.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add screwdriver and tool indentation from the drawer, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask to speak to Michael. Ask new questions. Warrant available from Brass. Ask Michael more questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for Lucy Cannelli’s office.

Lucy’s Office:

• Look on her desk and take keys.
• Look in the desk drawer, take bookmaking operation document.
• Go to the file cabinet and find a box of needles. While in close-up, get a blood sample.
• Get close-up again to find a fingerprint on the side of the box.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the needles and blood from the floor. Then confirm match.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the box of needles and search. Will match (result E). Then confirm match.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add the key from the victim’s apartment and the key from Lucy’s office, confirm match.

Morgue:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask to talk to Michael. Ask new questions.
• Ask for a warrant for Lucy Cannelli for questioning. Ask all the questions.

Skyler Hospital:

• Ask new questions. Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for Alex Porterson’s locker.

Skyler Hospital:

• Enter the door to the left of Alex. Go to Alex’s locker and take the photo of Carrie. Take shoe and get blood sample.
• Find trash bag, take it.
• Take bloody dress and get blood sample.
• Take juice bottle and get blood sample.
• Chat with Alex. Ask new questions.

Lab:

• Chemical Analyzer Machine, add trash bag and search.
• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the floor and blood from the sneaker. Then confirm match.
• Add blood from the floor and blood from the clothing. Then confirm match.
• Add blood from the floor and blood from the jug. Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for an arrest warrant for Alex Porterson. Ask all the questions.

CASE 3 CLOSED. 

Case #4: Rough Cut

The son of a prominent real estate developer is found dead in a remote campsite in the Nevada desert. Is he a victim of poison, politics, or promiscuity? You work with Greg Sanders on this case.

Crime Scene:

• Click on the body and take a picture.
• Click on the body again for a close-up. Find syringe on the sleeping bag.
• Zoom in on the left hand. Click the victim’s face for a close-up and take a picture.
• Click on the victim’s nose, get blow flies larvae.
• Click on victim’s boot and get boot print.
• Find cigarette near the left leg.
• Go to the tent to find an empty medicine bottle in the back.
• Get boot print near the opening, inside the tent.

Mobile Analysis Unit:

• Chemical Analyzer Machine, add cigarette and search.
• Add medicine bottle and search.
• Add syringe and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe print/tire treads, add victim’s boot print, no match.
• Add boot print from the tent and search, will match (result C).

Morgue:

• Ask Doc Robbins to recover the body. Ask all questions. He’ll give you Jimsonweed seeds.
• Ask more questions. Will get victim’s fingerprints and DNA.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis Machine, add Jimsonweed seeds and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add victim’s fingerprints.
• DNA Analysis Computer, add victim’s DNA.

Brass Office:

• Ask questions. Will add two new locations.

Condo:

• Chat with Carla and ask all possible questions. Will add a new location.

Emily’s Estate:

• Chat with Emily Hanson. Ask all questions. She’ll give you a cigarette butt.

Contractor’s Shop:

• Chat with Lou Astor. Ask all questions. He’ll let you look around.
• Look in the back of the truck. Look at the box and find a jar. While it’s in close-up, turn the jar forward to get a sample of a white residue.
• Go to the table and find a poker chip on the floor. While in close-up, get a fingerprint.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis Machine, add white residue from the jar and search.
• Add Emily’s cigarette butt and search.
• Trace Analysis Computer, add the fingerprint from the poker chip and search.
• Compare to the 5 samples, no match.
• Add poker chip fingerprint and victim’s fingerprint, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Emily’s Estate:

• Ask new question. Will get a memory stick.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, add memory stick and search.

Condo:

• Ask new question. Will get hiking boots.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe prints/tire treads, add Carla’s hiking boots and footprint from the tent, confirm match.

Contractor’s Shop:

• Ask new questions.

Crime Scene:

• Zoom in on the sleeping bag, to find a note. Find a hand-rolled cigarette. While in close-up, get a sample of a white powder.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis Machine, add white powder and search.

Morgue:

• Ask new questions.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Emily’s Estate:

• Ask new question. Will get a receipt.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, add angry note and handwritten estimate. Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for search warrant for Lou Astor’s shop.

Contractor’s Shop:

• Go into the office and find a cell phone on the table near the telephone.
• Go to the desk, find a ripped document.
• Go to the file cabinet, find a tub of pesticide on top of the cabinet.
• To the right of the file cabinet find a broken handle and take it, find a strand of hair.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add hair from broken handle and victim’s DNA. Then confirm match.
• Chemical Analysis Machine, add tub of pesticide and search.
• Use the Assembly Table, add ripped paper, put it together.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions. Will get three voicemail recordings from victim’s cell phone.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, listen to the three recordings.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Morgue:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Lou Astor for questioning. Ask all the questions.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Emily’s Estate:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask to talk to Lou Astor. Ask new questions.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Crime Scene:

• Find tire tracks near the rock, take an impression of it.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe prints/tire threads, add tire track and search.
• Compare it to the 5 samples, one will match (result C), confirm.

Emily’s Estate:

• Ask new questions.

Condo:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions. Will get tire tread.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe print/tire tread, add desert tire track and truck tire thread. Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for Emily Hanson’s house.

Emily’s Estate:

• Ask new questions.
• Go to the garage, find an opened book about pesticides, get fingerprint.
• Go to the shelf and find a jar of powder. While in close-up, find a fingerprint.
• Go to the second shelf to the left of the door, find memo’s.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis Machine, add jar of powder and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the book and search.
• Compare it to the 5 samples, will match (result C). Then confirm match.
• Add fingerprint on jar from Emily’s house and compare to the 5 samples, will match (result C). Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Get warrant for Emily Hanson for questioning.
• Ask all the questions. Will get a receipt for tobacco.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions. Ask for a search warrant for Carla Mitchell’s house.

Condo:

• Go to the coffee table, find a pair of men’s briefs, get a semen sample.
• Go towards the window in the kitchen, look at the outlet on the wall, get fingerprint.
• Look under the counter, to find a jar lid.
• In close-up find brown flakes, take sample.
• Zoom in on the lid and turn it over to find a fingerprint.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add semen from Carla’s condo and search.
• Compare to the three samples, will match (result A). Then confirm match.
• Chemical Analysis machine, add brown flakes and search. Warrant available from Brass.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the condo and the fingerprint from the book, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Carla Mitchell for questioning.
• Ask all the questions. Will get fingerprints.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add Carla’s fingerprints and the fingerprint from the lid, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask for an arrest warrant for Carla Mitchell. Ask all the questions.

CASE 4 CLOSED.

Case #5: The Big White Lie

A sleazy private investigator has been shot to death in an alley. Retracing his final steps reveals a web of deceit, lies, and corruption. Who, and how many people, pulled the trigger? You work with Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows on this case.

Crime Scene:

• Chat with Doc Robbins and ask all possible questions.
• Go to the dumpster behind Gil, look on the lid to find keys.
• Look at the lower right windshield and snap a photo of VIN number.
• Look inside the SUV.
• Go to the back of the SUV. Find blood near the gas cap, take sample.
• Look in the back of the SUV and find a fingerprint on the edge.
• Go back to the front of the SUV and go towards the crate. Click on the crate and take a picture.
• Go toward the crate and find the body, take a picture.
• Look at the body and get a blood sample. Look at tire tracks to the right of the crate, take a picture.

Morgue:

• Ask all the questions. Will get fingerprints and a bullet.

Crime Scene:

• Go back to the crate, find a powdery substance, take sample.
• Get close-up in the crate again and take pottery shards.

Lab:

• Chemical Analysis machine, add powdery substance from the crate and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add victim’s fingerprint, exit.
• Add fingerprint from car gate and search.
• Compare the 5 samples, no match.
• In shoe prints/tire treads, add tire tread from the alley, exit.
• DNA Analysis Computer, add victim’s DNA and search. Compare the 5 samples, one will match (result B). Then confirm match.
• Add blood from the fender and compare to the victim’s DNA. Then confirm match.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add bullet, exit.
• Trace Analysis Computer, add photo of the victim’s position near vehicle, exit.
• Search links/special, add photo of VIN and search.

Morgue:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask new question. Will add new location.

Victim’s Office:

• Look at the door, get an impression of the marks.
• Enter the RV, go to the keyboard on the desk, get the fingerprint.
• Take the camera from the shelf, above the desk. Look at the surveillance equipment.
• Go to the back of the RV and find account statements.
• Go to the front of the RV, find a piece of paper with a phone number. 

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the desk and search.
• Compare the 5 samples, no match.
• Compare fingerprint from the car gate and the one from the desk, no match.
• Search links/special, add bank records and search. Will add new location.

Brass Office:

• Ask new questions. Will automatically go to the interrogation room with Lucy Cannelli.
• Ask all possible questions. Will add new location.

Brass Office:

• Ask new question.

Gallery Office:

• Chat with Nathan Ackerman and ask all possible questions.
• Chat with Gus Clein and ask all possible questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask all the questions.

Carrie’s Apartment:

• Ask all the questions. Will get photo of Nathan with a crate at the gallery.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, add the photo of Nathan and photo of body position near the vehicle, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for the Gallery Office.

Gallery Office:

• Look at the desk, take accounting records. Go to the crates, find damaged pottery, take it.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to search links/special, add account records and search.
• Use the Assembly Table, add ceramic urn, click and drag the 10 cracked pieces (the 10th piece is where the cursor is), to reveal a bag of powder. While the bag is in close-up, turn it to get a fingerprint.
• Chemical Analysis Machine, add a bag of powder and search.
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from the bag, search and compare the 5 samples, one will match (result D). Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Nathan Ackerman for questioning.
• Ask all questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Gallery Office:

• Ask new questions.

Lab:

• Use the Assembly Table, add ripped photo from Lucy.
• Put photo together.

Gallery Office:

• Ask new questions.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Go inside. Ask new questions.

Carrie’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions. Will get a crowbar.

Lab:

• Use the Comparison Microscope to add crowbar and impression of marks on the RV’s door. Then confirm match.
• Warrant Available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for Michael Dubois’ Apartment.

Michael’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.
• Go to the painting behind Michael, take it.
• Go to the entertainment center, find a memory card, take it.
• Look in the open cabinet, find microphone and recorder, take it.
• On the shelf to the left of the television, find the audio tape, take it.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, add audio tape and play it.
• Add memory card. Audio/visual, add the photo of Warehouse. And the photo of Nathan at the gallery. Then confirm match.
• Search links/ special, add microphone and recorder and search.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Carrie’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Michael Dubois for questioning.
• Ask all the questions.
• Ask for a search warrant for Gus Clien’s Warehouse. Will get a new location.

Warehouse:

• Chat with Gus and ask all possible questions.
• Go to the drain, find blood.
• Look in the drain, find a white chunk.

Lab:

• DNA Analysis Machine, add fluid from the stain at the Warehouse: and victim’s DNA.
• Add white chunk and victim’s DNA. Then confirm match.
• Warrant available from Brass.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a search warrant for the interior of the Warehouse.

Warehouse:

• Enter Warehouse.
• Go to the right of the screen, go towards the bottle and look to the right to find tire tracks, take a picture.
• Click on the hose, on the wall. Click back twice.
• Go to the crates, find a first aid kit on the wall, find a gun. While in close-up, get the fingerprint.
• Click back and go to the left, passed Grissom.
• Click on the video slot machines, on the red one, take a picture of the serial number.
• Go to the laptop behind the slot machine, click the file icon, get the encrypted file.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to shoe prints/tire treads, add tire tread from the Warehouse and tire tread from the alley. Then confirm match.
• Search links/ special, add an encrypted file from the laptop and search.
• Search links/ special, add slot machine serial number and search.
• Add fingerprint from the gun and search. Compare to the 5 samples, will match (result D). Then confirm match.
• Use the Assembly Table, add the gun, click and slide the barrel and the handle, will get a bullet.
• Use the Comparison Microscope to add bullet from the handgun and bullet from the body, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask for a warrant for Gus Clein for questioning. Ask all the questions.
• Ask to talk to Nathan (gallery owner). Ask new questions.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to add fingerprint from gun and fingerprint from the bag of powder, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask to talk to Nathan. Ask new questions.

Lab:

• Go to the lab, then go to Carrie’s Apartment.

Carrie’s Apartment:

• Ask new questions. Will get Michael’s watch.
• While in close-up, get the blood sample.

Lab:

• Use DNA Analysis Computer and add blood from the watch and victim’s DNA, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask to talk to Michael again. Ask all questions. Will get the audio tape.

Lab:

• Use the Trace Analysis Computer to audio/visual, add audio tape from Michael and play.
• Add audio tape from Michael’s Apartment, confirm match.

Brass Office:

• Ask for an arrest warrant for Gus Clein.

CASE 5 CLOSED.

NERD NOTE: CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is the first CSI game to feature six cases.

Case #6: Poor Mom, Rich Mom

(PC version only)

A pregnant woman is stabbed multiple times, but she survives. Every suspect has a motive. You work with Catherine Willows on this case. This case is also on CSI Hard Evidence, where it is called “Double Down.”

NERD NOTE: The PC version of CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder has an addition of a sixth case. The PlayStation 2 version only has 5 cases. The sixth case is from CSI Hard Evidence.

CRIME SCENE

Use the LEUKO CRYSTAL VIOLET then the INTEGRISWAB on the blood on the floor near the front door to collect blood FROM APARTMENT”.

• Use the TWEEZERS on the wall under the window by the cow skull to collect “BULLET FROM WALL”
• Collect a “PHOTO OF CRIME SCENE” by using the CAMERA on the bed.
• Use the INTEGRISWAB on the bed to collect “blood FROM BED”
• Use ADHESIVE LIFTING TAPE on the bed to “FIBERS FROM BEDSHEET”
• Use LATEX GLOVES to collect “PHONE FROM APARTMENT” off of the floor next to the bed.
• Sara will call to inform you that the victim is at the hospital. ***LOCATION HOSPITAL ADDED**
• This one is hard to spot because the screen is so dark but it is there.
  At the foot of the bed in the dark area, there is a dresser, you need to use the HIGH POWERED FLASHLIGHT to light up the area so you can use the LATEX GLOVES to collect the “PHOTO OF COUPLE”
• Time to process what you’ve collected so go to the Lab.

Lab:

• Look at the Nokia phone you collected and use an INTEGRISWAB on the blood on the back to get “blood FROM PHONE”
• Look at to bullet and use an ADHESIVE MOUNT on the tip to collect “MATERIAL FROM BULLET”
• Use the Trace Analysis Computer-Search Links/Special on the phone and it will cause Sara to look for leads. This will come into play later.
• Use the computer again on the photo of the couple to get a new location. ***LOCATION SPHERE-HIGH ROLLERS’ ROOM: ADDED**

HIGH ROLLERS’ ROOM:

• This whole section is pointless. Shane should have already been in the hospital room.
• Talk to Shane and ask all questions and he will tell you that he has to go so you offer to take him.
• **LOCATION SEARCHED**

HOSPITAL

• Talk to Shane again and ask all questions until Sara calls to tell you about Everett.
• ***LOCATION SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE ADDED**
• Talk to Shane yet again and you will eventually get “SHANE’S DNA”.

SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE

• Talk to Everett and ask all the questions.
• Talk to Nicole and ask her all the questions.
• Check the piano bench and use LATEX GLOVES to collect a “GREEN HANDKERCHIEF”.
• Check the bar and test the blood on the knife. Use LEUKO CRYSTAL VIOLET then an INTEGRISWAB to collect the blood from steak knife.

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass and ask him the only question you can.

LAB:

• Sara will now give you a little background on the vic.
• Use the DNA Analyzer to compare Shane’s DNA with the blood drops from the apartment.
• ***WARRANT AVAILABLE****

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass to bring in Shane, then interrogate him. Ask all the questions until Sara calls to tell you Connie is now awake.
• Talk to Shane and ask the last question.

HOSPITAL:

• Talk to Connie and ask all the questions until you get a warrant.
• ***WARRANT AVAILABLE****
• Talk to Connie some more and you will eventually get “CONNIE’S DNA” and you will also get “PHOTO OF WOUNDS”.
• Finish talking to Connie until she lets you look at her belongings.
• Look on the table next to the bed and use ADHESIVE LIFTING TAPE on her dress to collect “FIBERS FROM CONNIE’S DRESS”
• Then use LATEX GLOVES to collect “PREGNANCY DIAGNOSIS” from the table also.
• **LOCATION SEARCHED**

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass to get the warrant to search the Luxury Suite.

SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE:

• Talk to Everett to collect “EVERETT’S DNA”
• Go upstairs and look in the case and use LATEX GLOVES to collect “EVERETT’S REVOLVER”.
• Look on the bed at the coat there and use ADHESIVE LIFTING TAPE to get “FIBERS FROM NICOLE’S OVERCOAT”

CRIME SCENE:

• Look behind the nightstand to find… nothing. Guess we need to talk to Connie some more.

HOSPITAL:

• Talk to Connie again and she will eventually give you her gun.

LAB:

• Look at the photo of wounds on the Trace computer-Audio/Video.
• Compare fibers from the bed sheet with the fibers from Nicole’s overcoat.
• ***WARRANT AVAILABLE****
• Match Connie’s DNA with the blood from the bed sheet and the blood on the phone.
• Use the Assembly Table and select Everett’s revolver to get “BULLET FROM EVERETT’S REVOLVER”.
• Use the table again with Connie’s gun this time to get “BULLET FROM CONNIE’S GUN”.
• Now compare the bullet from the wall with the bullet from Connie’s gun.

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass to interrogate Nicole. Ask her questions until Sara calls again to tell you that Connie lost the baby.

HOSPITAL:

• Talk to Connie until you eventually get “BABY DNA REPORT”.

LAB:

• Match the baby DNA report with Everett’s DNA.

SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE:

• Talk to Everett and ask all questions.

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass and ask to talk to Shane again. Talk to Shane and ask all questions.

HOSPITAL:

• Talk to Connie again and you will eventually get the “TESTIMONY IMPLICATING EVERETT”.

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Ask Brass to talk to Shane again to get the “RIPPED PHOTO”.

LAB:

• Sara brings the photos you asked Brass about a while back. Told you it would come into play later… They are the “SECURITY PHOTO OF EVERETT” and “SECURITY PHOTO OF NICOLE”.
  ***WARRANT AVAILABLE****
• Use the Assembly table to put the ripped photo back together.

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass about getting the warrant.

SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE:

• Go to the table next to the bar and use the LATEX GLOVES to get the following: “PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT”, “PRINTED EMAIL”
• Check out the pill bottles
• Next look at the computer and use the SCANDISK CROSSFIRE FLASH DRIVE to collect the “ENCRYPTED FILE FROM LAPTOP”. **LOCATION SEARCHED**

HOSPITAL:

• Talk to Connie and ask all questions.

LAB:

• Use the Trace computer-Search Links/Special to look at the encrypted file. ***WARRANT AVAILABLE***

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass to interrogate Everett and ask all questions.
• Talk to Everett one more time and ask the last couple questions.

SPHERE-LUXURY SUITE:

• Go upstairs and use LATEX GLOVES to collect two things from the rack in front of you:1- “GREEN BLOUSE”2- “USB MEMORY DRIVE”

LAB:

• Look at the green blouse and use ADHESIVE LIFTING TAPE to collect “FIBERS FROM GREEN BLOUSE”.
• Look at the blouse again and use LUMINOL on the stain on the front the use the INTEGRISWAB to collect the “LUMINOL REACTION FROM BLOUSE”.
• Compare fibers from the blouse and match it with the material from the bullet under the microscope.
• Use the Trace computer-Audio/Video to look in the USB drive. ***WARRANT AVAILABLE****

BRASS’ OFFICE:

• Talk to Brass to get the warrant for Nicole. Then talk to her.
• That’s it, you just solved the case and you should get a master rank because you didn’t use any hints and you should also have all the evidence there is.

CASE 6 CLOSED.

That’s it! Congrats, you just finished CSI: 3 Dimensions Of Murder!