Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an adventure mystery video
game in the Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares in 2014 and
distributed by Focus Home Interactive from 2014 to 2019 for Microsoft
Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. In
October 2019, Frogwares announced it regained the publishing rights to
the title on Steam and the game reappeared on other platforms in the
start of 2020.The game takes place in London and its suburbs in 1894
and 1895 with gameplay focused on finding the right culprit and making
the moral choice of absolving or condemning them. The game is the
first in the series to use the Unreal Engine 3, and was inspired by
Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. The game is split into six
cases of murders, disappearances and thefts written in the tradition
of Doyle novels. Its title is a play on the title of the Russian novel
Crime and Punishment by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Sherlock Holmes is
the main playable character with Dr. Watson, Toby (a Basset Hound) and
Constable Marrow playable briefly. The majority of the game involves
exploring crime scenes and examining clues. Once discovered, clues are
added to a "deduction board," a gameplay mechanic which involves
linking pieces of information together. It will lead to possible
different deductions. Once deductions are connected together, player
will have a full tree of deductions. Depending on how players
interpret the clues, they will have different conclusions. Therefore,
the player can fail or succeed in finding the culprit. He also decides
whether he wants to absolve or condemn the criminal. The moral choice
the player makes will influence the further gameplay. Each case will
have 3-5 possible solutions; in total there will be 6-10 different
endings for each case. In total, the game offers 14 investigation
mechanics, including Sherlock Holmes' skill to deduce many details
about someone's life simply by glancing at them or to imagine and
reconstruct the course of event by carefully observing all the key
details of a crime scene.
game in the Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares in 2014 and
distributed by Focus Home Interactive from 2014 to 2019 for Microsoft
Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. In
October 2019, Frogwares announced it regained the publishing rights to
the title on Steam and the game reappeared on other platforms in the
start of 2020.The game takes place in London and its suburbs in 1894
and 1895 with gameplay focused on finding the right culprit and making
the moral choice of absolving or condemning them. The game is the
first in the series to use the Unreal Engine 3, and was inspired by
Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. The game is split into six
cases of murders, disappearances and thefts written in the tradition
of Doyle novels. Its title is a play on the title of the Russian novel
Crime and Punishment by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Sherlock Holmes is
the main playable character with Dr. Watson, Toby (a Basset Hound) and
Constable Marrow playable briefly. The majority of the game involves
exploring crime scenes and examining clues. Once discovered, clues are
added to a "deduction board," a gameplay mechanic which involves
linking pieces of information together. It will lead to possible
different deductions. Once deductions are connected together, player
will have a full tree of deductions. Depending on how players
interpret the clues, they will have different conclusions. Therefore,
the player can fail or succeed in finding the culprit. He also decides
whether he wants to absolve or condemn the criminal. The moral choice
the player makes will influence the further gameplay. Each case will
have 3-5 possible solutions; in total there will be 6-10 different
endings for each case. In total, the game offers 14 investigation
mechanics, including Sherlock Holmes' skill to deduce many details
about someone's life simply by glancing at them or to imagine and
reconstruct the course of event by carefully observing all the key
details of a crime scene.
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