Paradox Games: Cyber Crime Unit

The unique thing about this game was that one player was the inspector, and the rest of us were the crime lab people, and we didn't see the same things as the inspector.  So that is cool, because it forces us to communicate.  However, the puzzles didn't really foster the right kind of teamwork - they were almost all what we call "barrier games", where one person describes something to someone else who can't see it.  This fosters a lot of talking back and forth, but the puzzles were so easy, we didn't really need to work together to solve them.  It was basically a competition among the lab people to shout out the correct answer first to the inspector.  There were two good puzzles that needing thinking to solve, but the rest of the game didn't provide enough of a challenge.  Also, a couple of the puzzles didn't work right until you reset them.  That wasn't really a problem though.  Respect for trying to force more interaction among players, but the concept could be improved some.

This was overall a good game.  My complaint would be that (the 2 players see different information) as detective it seemed that I had more information than the lab did, and there was a lot of material to read.  I spent the game reading out loud, and that got tiring.  My partner's role didn't seem to have much to do.  The puzzles were good, though.