Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper Reviews

cant open. game won't open. unplayable

Very nice. I don't have any words to describe it. Really enjoy the storyline and the puzzle.

While this game's premise could be very interesting, and certainly the title excited me enough to purchase it, unfortunately it has little to recommend it. The atmosphere in first-person mode is good, particularly when wandering the streets of Whitechapel. You get a good sense of the squalor that many poor people lived in. I also applaud the use of stills and outlines to represent the women's bodies so that there isn't the opportunity to gawp at the horror - they are still people, after all. There are also some good dynamics such as having to use evidence collected to be able to solve puzzles, and assemble the case. And there are some believable characters, at least in their initial premise. All of that said, I can't recommend the game as much fun to play. The movement in third-person is horrible, the mouse loses movement from time to time. The puzzles are also not much fun, either. There is some variety and some made me think, but a lot of the time it's a case of trying to work out what on earth Holmes just said as a clue to what you need to do, and working out what exactly the game requires of you. There is a help button most of the time (but not always) but the instructions don't always match what the puzzle actually is. And the deduction pages are terrible - some of the clues lead to reasonable deductions, but some you're left just trying all the different combinations to find the 'right' one. The final puzzle is also one where you could just click and drop to see what you get right, rather than requiring you to collect all of the facts. The ending video is also just bizarre - we are treated to a silent mime of the crimes with no real explanation (I checked on Youtube to see if something had gone wrong with my graphics or sound, but nope that's how it's meant to be). I did eventually complete the game, but it's not much fun. There are much better puzzle games out there.