Buy Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

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its excellent. 'nuff said.

+ Gameplay
+ Cases
+ Graphics
+ Characters
+ Choices

- Story

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is the first real interest I had in the character as a whole. Despite it not reaching the heights of games like L.A. Noire, it's nonetheless a very enjoyable experience.


Story: As the title suggests, the game follows Sherlock Holmes and his ever faithful assistant (and secret best friend) Dr. Watson as they solve 5 seperate cases, some strange, others grounded in logic. The voice work on almost all the characters is superbly done, as are the graphics which take good advantage of the next-gen technology to produce beautiful enviroments and a stunning amount of detail when examining the suspects and witnesses.


Gameplay: Gameplay depends on you, controlling Sherlock most of the time, to walk around various crime scenes and examine evidence and collect statements from witnesses. Getting to potential evidence may require you to solve a puzzle such as picking locks. Sometimes a witness will withhold information from you, or outright lie to you. Although, if you gathered evidence, you are capable of challenging these claims in a quick-time event to potentially uncover the answer. You are also able to take advantage of Sherlock's superhuman powers of deduction and imagination to piece together ideas to make a conclusion, which, depending on how you structure them, can lead to either a right or wrong end to the cases. At the end of each case, you can choose to either arrest or absolve the possible culprit, which can change the type of letters you receive.


Downsides: While Crimes and Punishments is a fun game that requires you to think, there are still a few problems with it. One problem is that the cases can be rather short and have a low amount of replayability after you arrest the right culprit.

8.6/10

Final Verdict: If you're into solving mysteries and making tough choices, Crimes and Punishments is the game for you, and is a good alternative to L.A. Noire.

great game

one of the most amazing games i have ever played ejoied it so much

7.9/10

I enjoyed the game. I like the voice-acting and the English setting. The writing is decent and I learned a lot new words and phrases like ensconse, "Vox populi, Vox Dei", "acting intelligently sometimes requires more than intelligence"... The first 2 cases are a bit slow and a lot of the game is figuring out what the game wants you to do rather than figuring out the case (i.e. Did I click on that random mostly irrelevant thing in the corner of the room so the game knows I'm ready for the next cut scene?). But overall it's entertaining enough that you will finish it, which is more than I can say for 98% of my steam library.

The best frogware Holmes by miles because it allows you to make mistakes in the cases. There are still a few ease of use issues, like loading between areas, but don't let that put you off. Great sale purchase for me.

The gameplay is quite slow and very predictable. If you like obvious and forced game play, then this is the perfect game. The depth/rendering gave me an instant headache and a bit of nausea. I think I’ll have to go consider wasting money while trying not to vomit.

It's a great game! But I have a few comments:
1.Very strong color saturation and high contrast in scenes.
2. Constant flashing of many textures (some parts of the objects are black, and some parts are normal), perhaps due to my graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series.
3. Poor quality of many textures. Tree textures, picture frames, furniture, most Kew Gardens textures are terrible! Often the texture of high quality and low quality are located next to each other. In the excavations in Saint Albans, some standing next to the each other textures differs in brightness.
The graphic style of this game reminded me of No One Lives Forever 2. Textures need the "Bump Offset". The game needs pastel colors. The color palette of British homes and gardens are more complex and refined. It needs a subtle color harmony (here can help Adobe Kuler).
4. You do not need to prompt the player every time he need to press the "T" or "F". It's enough to make it one time in the beginning. The player must guess when he need to press the button. In such places enough to show a quite small glare on objects, flashing dots or Holmes might say "hmm ...". In any adventure game should be the "pixel hunting".
5. The game need "inventory" with items. The player must guess which of them need to be combined. There may be unexpected combinations, which are difficult to guess.
In any quest there must be the moments when you need to apply a certain item at a certain place in a one second. The player must catch the moment.
6. Dialogs are too simple. The player must choose the right words to make the suspect to cooperate. There should be a specific sequence of replicas.
Not many people with whom you can talk. It facilitates the process of investigation. It may be better to make more people with whom you can talk, but they should not help. The player must choose the right person from a crowd.
7. All cases in the game are too simple. Everywhere there are hints, clues and evidence. This is a job for an ordinary detective, but not for a Sherlock Holmes!

For example, a difficult case for Sherlock Holmes (!I saw this story in Russian movie!): naked body of the man was found in a closed inside an empty room in the apartment house. No evidence, no clues there. Sherlock and the police are confused! In an empty room there is nothing that could catch the trail of the killer. This room was not rented for a long time. How this man appeared there- it's a mystery! An autopsy showed that the man was not poisoned, not been shot. But he drank some coffee shortly before his death.
Sherlock is looking for cafes, in which he could drink coffee before death. There are many cafes around this place. After some time of searching, intuition tells Sherlock to pay attention to a man who differ from the crowd of people in this quarter, in one of the cafes. Suspicious man drinking coffee in the cafe and looks like a scientist. Sherlock decided to follow him. The waiter in the cafe does not know anything about this person. In pursuit of this scientist Sherlock gradually learns that the victim had taken a wife of this scientist. The scientist was professor of psychiatry, an experienced hypnotist. The wife of the scientist was in love with the victim.
When the doctor found out about it, he called opponent on a conversation in an outdoor cafe, where they together drank coffee and arguing who gets the beloved woman. The doctor hypnotized his opponent and tells him about a hired killer. Doctor said, that a killer is chasing this man! Killer knows how the victim looks like. In addition, the doctor persuaded the poor guy to hide himself from the people and lock in the room, otherwise he will be in extreme danger!
The poor fellow was so frightened that he quietly stole the key from a room in the nearest apartment house, locked himself in this room, undressed and threw the clothes in the window where it was successfully stolen. A few days after lying on the floor with a wild sense of fear, despair, hunger and thirst, the man died. A few days later the body was found.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigates a case of mafia cartels. On the way from the crime scene to the Scotland Yard the cab flips and breaks up. Holmes and Watson knocked out by three murderers. When Sherlock waked up, he saw a huge pit from which it is difficult to get out. Watson tied to a chair and waiting for interrogating from a strange man, trying to find out what they know about a crime scene, where they have been earlier. Finally have not ascertained anything from Watson, the man goes to the window to see where Holmes are. During this short time Watson should find on the table an acid or something sharp to cut the rope. When the offender is moving away from the window and fills a syringe with some substance, Watson unties the rope. The man brings syringe to Watson, and Watson knocks the syringe from the hand of criminal. Then he strikes a bottle on the man's head and knocks him out. In this case, player need to quickly perform actions, cleverly hide from offenders and maybe even shoot.

In addition, the game needs a mission on the London Eye or Tower Bridge.

The game needs a mission with encrypted letters or inscriptions on the wall.

Thank you for your attention and wish You good luck!