When you think of detectives and lawyers, the thought of boring work might come to mind. If
Pursuit of Justice is any indication of it's real life counterparts, you might be right. The reason why someone would make a game about the most tedious and difficult jobs on Earth eludes me, as does the gameplay elude this title.
If you have never dabbled in law before, (and I doubt you have), then have no fear. Inside the game is a Law Library filled with so much information about the judicial system that reading any bit of it might make your head explode. The only ones who might be vaguely interested in this option would be law majors, although studying the in-game materials probably wouldn't get you through Law School.
You play a newly appointed District Attorney that has to collect evidence, suspects, and put together a case that will hold up in court. Pursuit of Justice centers around the cases you have to deal with, which number a whopping three. That FMV must have taken up all that space on the CD's. You have to do them in order, so if you can't beat the first one, there's no point in continuing with this virtual torture.
Each case starts you out with a summary of the crime, and leaves you to do the rest. Visiting various places on the map will give you clues and suspects, and it's up to you to decide which are useful for different parts of your argument. It's really just finding the right combination of items to win the jury over. For those with patience, trial and error will get you through this game.
Each case has a time limit, and every action you take uses a certain amount of time. Waste too much time and you go to court prematurely. Once you have your case together, it's off to put the bad guys behind bars. In court, you bring your witnesses and suspects to the stand for questioning. Ask the right questions about the right things, and you're good as gold. Ask the wrong questions and get objected. At times you can fight this by choosing some legal mumbo jumbo to feed to the judge that he may or may not accept.
If you're worried about being proficient in the way of the law, there's a quiz game at the DA building that will tweak your legal knowledge to its limits. Don't play this game too long, though, as it might drive you insane.
Once your finished with your material, rest your case and see what happens. You get a percentage depending on how you did, which simply translates to what order you did everything in. If you did what the game wanted you to do, you pass. Otherwise, you fail. If all of this sounds extremely boring, it is. There's no way around it.
