This game is the first of its kind in giving CSI fans the opportunity to enter the series and become a CSI themselves.
You play a newly hired CSI, and are trained by Grissom and his team, which remarkably resembles their TV series counterparts, taking into account the otherwise mediocre graphics of the game. You have a full range of tools at your disposition when you are out in the field, helping you to detect and collect evidence. You can swab liquids, detect bloodstains, take fingerprints, and many other things.
The story is interesting enough, and some of the chapters play into each other, and you are at one point even able to go back to a previously solved case and right a severe mistake you've done. However, it is sadly lacking in when it comes to the player being able to choose for himself what to do. The game forces you to follow a particular line of action, rather than being flexible enough to allow you to try solutions of your own. As a consequence, you will spend an unproportionate amount of time running around searching for the miniscule piece of evidence that will enable you to bring in a suspect for interrogation. This could have been interesting, if only this tiny piece of evidence sometimes doesn't seem to be relevant at all to solving the case.
To enjoy this game, you must be a fan of the series, or have an extraordinary ability to ignore glaring faults in the gameplay. However, if you do have one or both of these traits, then you will probably have some fun. For about 2-3 hours or so, which is the time it takes to play the game through.