Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
The Awakened's box cover
Developer(s) Frogwares
Publisher(s) Focus Home Interactive
Designer(s) Jalil Amr
Series Sherlock Holmes series
Version 1.3
Platform(s) Windows
Release date November 24, 2006
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) PEGI: 12+
ESRB: M (Mature 17+)
Media DVD (1)
Input methods Mouse

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and published in 2006 on DVD for Windows. The game follows an original plotline as Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John H. Watson investigate a series of strange disappearances related to the Cthulhu Mythos.

The third in the Sherlock Holmes series of adventure games developed by Frogwares, The Awakened was preceded in 2002 by Mystery of the Mummy and in 2004 by Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring. This is the first game in the series to tackle supernatural elements such as the Cthulhu Mythos, the previous two games having fairly traditional (albeit original) Holmesian plots.

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[edit] Plot

As the game begins, it is revealed that Sherlock Holmes is discontented because he lacks a case worthy of his talents. However, this mood quickly changes when Holmes learns of the disappearance of a young Maori manservant who worked for one of Watson's patients, Captain Stenwick.

Upon further investigation, Holmes deduces that the manservant did not simply go missing but was kidnapped. His search couples the manservant's kidnapping with other kidnappings as reported by certain interrogated individuals. It quickly becomes apparent to Holmes that so many kidnappings could only be carried out by a powerful group of individuals -- who are later discovered to be followers of Cthulhu.

Holmes and Watson's investigation takes them all the way to Switzerland, New Orleans, and the western Scottish coast in a desperate race against time to not only solve the case, but to prevent Cthulhu from being reawakened once more.

[edit] Gameplay

Unlike the fixed third-person perspective of the previous Frogwares title Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring, The Awakened's gameplay takes place in an entirely real-time 3D landscape and from a first-person perspective, losing the pre-rendered backgrounds of its predecessor.

Although the game has adopted the view popularized by the first-person shooter genre, it retains the point-and-click aspect of most adventure games, giving the player the ability to complete the game using the mouse alone (except for answering typed "quiz" questions).

[edit] System requirements

  • Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
  • Pentium III 1.3 GHz or higher
  • 512MB RAM
  • 3GB free hard disk space
  • 4x DVD-ROM drive
  • DirectX 9 compatible 64MB video card
  • DirectX 9 compatible sound card

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