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Test your sleuthing skills in this Sherlock Holmes mystery adventure!
The Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened demo contains roughly one hour of gameplay, providing a taste of what it's like to be the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his able assistant, Doctor Watson. As you face off against a sinister cabal, you’ll be challenged to investigate a crime scene, interview witnesses, search for clues, and use various tools to examine them.

In the full game, players will solve deeper and more complex mysteries as they work their way to a final showdown with a dark cult, followers of the elder god Cthulhu made popular in the fictional writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened will ship to US stores September 4, 2007.

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41 Comments

  • tRiPoUt_shroomz

    Posted Dec 30, 2007 1:30 pm GMT

    I am downloading now.... I hope its a cool game. It looks alright... Download sure is slow though. Over an hour for less than a gig, that is sad.

  • DarkMat12321

    Posted Aug 26, 2007 12:38 pm GMT

    The sherlock holmes series is one of the best book series the world will know

  • Crystall3d

    Posted Aug 18, 2007 9:35 am GMT

    gues gamespot servers are not as fast as they used to be... even for subscribers.... Ç

  • supermongie

    Posted Aug 18, 2007 1:38 am GMT

    I can not install it. I get an error message after the setup begins saying:

    "The current version of the application could not be determined. The setup will now terminate"

    Any suggestions?

  • 401225

    Posted Aug 14, 2007 2:20 pm GMT

    There are two more in the backyard: The wall next to the little house, and other on the ground..... ill hope this can help u mememe11 XD....

  • mememe11

    Posted Aug 8, 2007 4:35 am GMT

    I need a clue / help!

    - Found 5 Items: Knife: Box of matches, Small lump (???), Ladder, Piece of cloth.
    - Now, I keep getting this message: "I don't have enough information, I should return and investigate further".
    - Any spoiler? ...oops! It's just a demo. What am I missing?

    The environment could have been rendered more spooky, if it was on a starry night, to compensate for the lack of animate activity on the streets at daytime. Good work though.

  • ekabas

    Posted Aug 5, 2007 11:34 am GMT

    Why can't I ever download this file? It keeps timing out!

  • warfighter172

    Posted Aug 2, 2007 12:59 pm GMT

    Smood that’s not a nice thing to say to Mrcooler. I think your very much mistaken. This is an old game.
    I remember playing 'Deja Vu' on the commodore 64 which was brilliant in the 1980’s, but ‘Sherlock Holmes The Adventure’ plays just the same, only 20 years on.
    You must be able to see the lack of imagination, along with the liner game play. Just imagine a street full of character and movie like scenes, this is what we should demand for the price we pay.
    You say to Mrcooler go back to your ps2 well this has never been more than a ps2 game, out of date before it started!

  • Smood

    Posted Aug 1, 2007 10:50 am GMT

    You must be a console gamer MrCooler... or maybe just... nevermind. The graphics are pretty good, the gameplay is well... methodical detective work, not God of War 2. Go back to your ps2 noob.

  • MrCooler

    Posted Jul 31, 2007 2:42 am GMT

    The game's sure pretty dead. Bad graphics, slow gameplay... I think it won't be highly recomendet by most of the users. My opinion: This game sucks a big one.

  • GamerErman2001

    Posted Jul 30, 2007 2:13 pm GMT

    I can't wait for this game to be released! It's gonna be awesome!

  • mencel

    Posted Jul 30, 2007 2:12 pm GMT

    The graphics are messed up on my demo. I have good computer specs, but the menus and title screen are so blurry they are unreadable. When I began the game, everything seemed fine until Watson walked into the room, all the characters have messed up models, eg Watson has a face which stretches out like a traffic cone, and the newspaper man has all these spikes coming out of him like he is some sort of human porcupine. It's quite funny, but unplayable.

  • grandpierre

    Posted Jul 30, 2007 12:57 am GMT

    I haven't completed this game, because it is too boring and, yeah, the locations are too dead

  • MrCooler

    Posted Jul 29, 2007 11:17 am GMT

    Xeonz, did you saw a Scarecrow in this game?

  • warfighter172

    Posted Jul 29, 2007 8:21 am GMT

    I refuse to play a game at this point with such rubbish graphics. The town is dead with little atmosphere could have been quite different. Should have come out 7 years ago!

  • Hurricane6

    Posted Jul 27, 2007 11:31 am GMT

    I haven't played yet, but seeing as my last name is Watson, i better like it. Grr... lol

  • jbstark720

    Posted Jul 26, 2007 2:16 pm GMT

    seems ok.

  • Xeonz

    Posted Jul 26, 2007 4:21 am GMT

    That guy with the mask over his face looks like the guy from Batman Returns who had this medicine dust to cause hallucinations to his victims.

  • RonBorG

    Posted Jul 25, 2007 7:37 pm GMT

    Beam me up Watson......I'm in a world of @$#%. errr Scotty

  • eagle0

    Posted Jul 25, 2007 2:37 pm GMT

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, a merge of Conan Doyle and Lovecraft. "Quick Watson, the game is afoot!"

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Release Date: Mar 1, 2007 (more)
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