Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (PC Games)
- User-Friendly Interface – Scour stunning environments and interrogate suspects with a click of the mouse
- Total Immersion – Striking audiovisuals and gripping encounters will send shivers up your spine.
- Intuitive Puzzles – From physics-based mindbenders to logical conundrums, solutions are elementary
- Living World – Interact with over 60 mysterious characters and hundreds of clues and objects
- Live the Legend – From Deerstalker cap to magnifying glass, become the world’s most sought-after detective
Product Description
Discover the adventures of Sherlock Holmes with a gripping atmosphere, for the first time ever delivered in a thoroughly intensive and wholly immersive real-time 3D world. Throughout your investigation you will meet more than sixty characters with whom you can interact freely. Hundreds of clues and objects will need to be scrutinized and utilized in order for the investigation to be solved…. More >>
Graphics:
For an adventure game, the graphics are average and acceptable. The textures are good for the most part; however, some of the scenes are overly dark and appear washed out and bland.
Gameplay:
Painfully bad. The voice acting is stiff, unimaginative and absolutely annoying at several points. Hearing Sherlock Holmes’s line “I have no reason to go over there” is the single most annoying line I’ve ever heard out of an adventure game. The characters are also flat and one-dimensional; the developers chose to be WAY TOO LITERAL in their take on the Sherlock Holmes storyline. If this character was derived back in the 1890’s, it certainly shows in this game.
Controls:
Buggy. At times, the character will begin to drift aimlessly and one will have to hit the ‘Esc’ key and the directional keys to have him move in the proper direction.
Value:
This game should be no more than $15-$20 dollars MAX. If you paid more, you got screwed. Unless you enjoy hearing annoying dialogue, bland graphics, unresponsive, buggy controls and flat, boring characters, there’s almost NO REPLAY ABILITY WHATSOEVER.
OVERALL:
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is a boring, flat, tedious game with terrible dialogue, one-dimensional characters, and a buggy controls system hosting bland graphics. Stay away.
P.S. The Sherlock Holmes thing needs to be spruced up a bit. Time for he and Watson to get modern. I’ve never been so annoyed by a video game before playing this one. If you are seeking interesting, well-done adventure games, see Jane Jensen’s Gabriel Knight series under Sierra On-Line.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this game and installed it on my computer (Vista) that usually has no problems running games. However, the game refused to run, it did not even contained the exe file. Downloaded the patch. Did not help. This time the stupid game could not recognize CD in the drive. That is not the first time, by the way, that Frogware games did not install properly. I could never run Silver Earring on my computer either because of the drivers issues. Looked at the cover. In the tiniest font possible it stated that the game will not work with “old” or Intel graphics cards, which work perfectly well for any other game. Overall, very disappointed.
I did not like Nemesis at all but rather liked Jack the Ripper and hoped the Awakened would be more of the same sort. But it seems I just wasted my money. Games with such sloppy design should not be allowed on the market.
Rating: 1 / 5
Once I figured out how to play the game I was able to get into it. I really enjoyed the graphics. It was suppose to be guesome but that didn’t bother me because its just a game. You just follow the clues to solve the mystery.
Rating: 4 / 5
I love this game; I don’t understand how it averages 3-4 stars on most reviews I’ve seen here and there. Excellent graphics, dialogues, and storyline. If you are a fan of games like monkey island and broken sword, then pick this one up right away, you won’t regret it!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I like Sherlock Holmes and H P Lovecraft, this game could have been excellent given competent design. As it was, it is the most tedious “game” I have ever attempted to play. The graphics and story were okay, except the extreme frustration of feeling along for clues eventually just made me pissed about what could have been. A TOTAL waste of money.
Rating: 2 / 5