The Game consists of a Crime Scene that users explore to gather clues, a Crime Lab where users analyze clues and narrow suspect lists, and the Aftermath where the game presents a compiled list of statistics about the user's performance. Help Menu and the Game. The Help Menu has HTML links to the Tutorial and Training Facility. Both of the components of the Help Menu are text based web pages. The Game begins with a menu listing links to the available crime scenes with a brief description of the type of scene.
All crime scenes adhere to the following structure.
The Game begins with the Crime Scene which displays the crime and assists the user in gathering physical evidence. Users will be able to explore the crime scene, freely picking up clues to be passed onto the next component, the Crime Lab. The Crime Lab is where users classify the clues they gathered from the Crime Scene and examine the results of clue analysis. As each clue is examined, a list of suspects will be continually narrowed until one suspect is left. This prompts the the Aftermath screen which consists entirely of text displaying statistical data generated while the user was playing.