Had this been the first in the CSI game series, it would have been OK. But as the newest of the series I was extremely disappointed. I was expecting much much more from this. Gone is the toolbag where you choose what to use to test a finding. Most of the graphics have become cartoons rather than more realistic scenes. When you turn up at a scene you have to collect a number of items, but don't know what they are until a fuzzy black and white picture appear below. Most are completely irrelevant to the game. Unlike previous games, you don't take everything back to the lab to check it yourself. A couple of items are checked and the method is quite boring. For example, if you find a finger print, you get a screen with the print on and have to find three separate pieces of it out of a possible nine. Collecting blood is not merely getting a swab, you have to draw a line around it - if you are not accurate enough, you have to start again. In the lab, to check the DNA, you end up sorting out strands into separate boxes with a pair of tweezers leaving only one which is different from the others. Same with any fluids. Checking addresses is boring. You just draw a line from the company logo to the name typed out. I miss being able to search a crime scene, test everything for fingerprints or fluids.
Highly unsatisfying and comes across as cheaply made.