The title might sound interesting to Sherlock Holmes fans like myself, but this game is really disappointing.

User Rating: 5 | Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis PC
When I first saw the poster of new Sherlock Holmes game, "Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsene Lopin", I was really excited. But somehow I knew that it wouldn't be really great. Because The Frogwares was the same developer of "The Awakened", and it was a real disappointment. Everything was terrible, graphics, sounds, gameplay, and I still don't know how it could obtain such a great score (8.3)!
Anyway, I decided to try this new Sherlock Holmes game. It wasn't that bad at first. Graphics had improved and was better than The Awakened, and I was starting to like the storyline, but then after a while I found out that ruining the good ideas is the only thing Frogwares is good at. This game has a really linear or better to say extra-linear storyline and you have to follow Arsene Lopin and his absurd puzzles, in the exact way that he wants. You really don't have any freedom in the game and there's almost only one thing you can do at a time, and this not the way a good adventure game works.
The graphical bugs are lessened in this version, but you still can't enjoy it and everything seems just artificial. For example watching the first scene of the game, where Sherlock Holmes is playing violin is enough to show that this is not a game made by professional hands.
Characters' voices don't really suit them and the music gets repetitive after a while. I don't know why every different character pronounces "Lestrade" in a different way, and I don't know why it really gets on my nerves like this.
I don't think that playing "Nemesis" is a good idea and right now there are a lot of better adventure games to play in the stores (after all I believe that it depends on your taste). I'm not a new adventure player and I know what I'm talking about. I've played a lot of adventure games and I'm telling you, this is not a neat and professional adventure that makes you enjoy playing it. You can try other adventure company's games, but not this one.