Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper is a adventure, rpg and detective game
developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on December 23rd 2009 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 1,131 reviews of which 908 were positive and 223 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam and has a 90% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP/Vista
- Processor: Celeron 2Ghz or AthlonXp 1900+
- Memory: 512MB
- Graphics: 128MB Graphics Card
- DirectX®: DirectX 9
- Hard Drive:3GB of free space
- Sound: DirectX 9 compatible
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The final Sherlock Holmes game in this engine and it's almost sad to see it go. It's been a super janky ride playing through all these games again, but quite interesting at the same time. There were definitely features in this game that left me scratching my head - as did all the previous games in this engine - but I generally like this the most due to the QoL improvements. I can't say I fully agree with Frogware's opinion on who Jack the Ripper was, but the way it's presented in this game makes it logical at the very least. The game also does a little bit of fan service by showing us Holmes meeting a reoccurring character in the earlier games, as this is actually a prequel to most of the series. Watson also finally gets a proper looking room! Interestingly, I'd say that despite not including the in-game walkthrough the other games had, this one was easier to play.
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This is my first of frogware's sherlock holmes games but I instantly a fan! It can be abit too hard times but that's what sherlock known for, And the horror atmosphere and accuracies of horrible and terrible living state of victorian england with the poor and desperate having to somehow live in the horrible enviorments even the children just a errie feel. Espically with the main villain being history most notorious serial killer
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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper is the 5th of the main line Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes games. This is actually the first chronologically of the original run of games. This was one of the games in the series I was really looking forward to due to the famous subject matter. It does cover that brilliantly and the conclusion is very clever to avoid mucking with reality. It is interesting having Holmes investigating real murders. It manages to approach the gory subject matter in ways that aren't gratuitous but do give you all the facts. I know that the next game is more gory but I wonder if as these were real crimes they decided to pull back. Many of the familiar aspects since Earring are back. Baker Street is the same, although sadly we do not get to explore outside the flat as previously. We do get a short visit to the book shop with what seems to be Holmes' first meeting with Barnes. As promised we do become regular visitors in the future. Although we lose the area around Baker Street we gain Whitechapel which is a larger area to explore with plenty of grimy detail. The games have always done well conveying interesting locations and each one visited in this game keep up that high standard. The graphics overall remain the same as the previous few titles and I think are still interesting and hold up to this day. The regular Holmes and Watson voice actors return and do their brilliant job bringing the characters alive. Overall all the audio is great immersing you in areas with music and incidental sounds. The gameplay this time did seem more focused. I always knew where I needed to go next or what I needed to do. Often Sherlock or Watson would repeat where I needed to go on entering a new area. Some mechanics are developed further in the game from previous attempts. The deduction process is clear allowing you to string evidence together and then draw conclusions from them. You can't proceed from these till you are correct and each conclusion goes green when it is correct. It's a great system and stopped me getting frustrated a few times. New to the game is a few timeline constructions, piecing together events to try to work out when murders must have occurred. These seemed to get easier as the first had you sifting the evidence for the times but the later ones told you the times on the timeline. I think it's a nice mechanic but needs a little more work to make it a little challenge. This game did feel light on the classic puzzles but generally they were all fun and only a couple had me checking the guide to see if I was off. Apart from one. There is a puzzle where you have to put in dates of battles, match the flags of who fought and the uniform. But this information is not in the game. I don't know if this is an oversight and a book on the battles was meant to be somewhere but I think it is an error to have a puzzle that requires knowledge the game does not provide. (If I missed the clue with this information then that's on me, but all the guides I checked with just had you look it up online) The best puzzle involves pigs and knives and was really clever. Overall the puzzles were pretty good, a few standouts but I think not as good as the previous few games. In terms of getting the game to work, I used the methods from the previous 3 titles, using dgvoodoo2 and the 4g address aware patch to ensure stability. I had no crashes and no save errors. There is an issue getting graphic settings to save. If you want most of the graphic options then dgvoodoo will do it. To get shadows for characters was more involved but there is a forum post explaining it. It worked for me and I had no issues. Overall this was a really fun games to play and an interesting experience. It continues the high standard of the series, building on the mechanics. It is the last of the classic games which I hadn't played as the next Testament was the first I ever player. But at the end of this game Holmes suggested a story about a spectral dog and as it happens that is my next stop. 8/10
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It's a mixed bag but it's passable. Coming straight off playing Sherlock Holmes Nemesis, I started this title feeling highly dubious and mostly sceptical that I would actually finish it at all. And so I surprised myself. Between running around and losing focus on what I was meant to do, a strange mix of good and bad puzzles, in addition to getting the feeling the pace was dragging in places, I somehow ended up finishing the game. Almost everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper, so perhaps this title was always going to drag me in. I've also touched on the subject in another game, Shadowman, as well as having read a (fictional) book written up as a conspiracy involving the royals, so I guess I have a morbid fascination with this still-unsolved case. Here it is fictionalised again, but only insofar as weaving it into a Sherlock tale. Most of the information is surprisingly on par with the facts as you can find on the internet these days - even if some of the more sordid facts are not illuminated completely. There are some disgusting aspects to the murders but the worst of it is kept to a minimum. I'd still caution against younger gamers from playing it, simply because the murders are real. _________________ As it is based on a real event from history, it can be predictable. Parts of the game are better than the Nemesis title - the atmosphere is darker, the human population is a little improved... but consider the period and the facts as listed on wikipedia: Whitechapel supposedly had around 62 brothels and over a thousand prostitutes. There were around 8500 people in 233 common lodging-houses. This in addition to events like Bloody Sunday (1887), frequent demonstrations, Antisemitism, crime, nativism, racism, social disturbance, and severe deprivation... it was hell. When you try to picture this, then start playing the game, you see just how short of reality the game is. It doesn't scratch the surface. Still, one feature I am glad to see is the Deductions and Conclusions. It can be fun to pick the correct facts from a short list, to see if you are correct (according to the game). I think there is some confusion as to left and right in terms of neck slashing actions though - I may also have just rushed it without thinking it through properly. Other minigames and puzzles are not so successful. The puzzle involving flags and hats and year dates is highly criticised as something people get stuck on, simply for the lack of the game cluing you up on it. Other puzzles can be trial and error. Still further, the game gives you the freedom to interchange between first and third person perspectives, making it confusing to figure out where you are supposed to be looking for clues. The first time I got stuck was while playing as Watson, and I ended up having to look up the answer online - it was a sooty footprint inside the clinic I was missing, and it wasn't exactly anywhere you'd expect to look. There are no clues in the menu to say where you are meant to be, except when it forces you out of fast travelling sometimes, so getting lost is something you just have to get used to. The third time I got stuck, was when I had no clue you could combine items in the inventory. Again, there are no clues to suggest this. Don't even get me started on Sherlock's bizarre instruction on how to draw up the ellipse. When you look at the game as a whole, it just seems rushed, like nothing was tested properly and it was just thrown out there to the world. ______ I love listening to Sherlock's voice, I think it's the same voice actor in various Sherlock titles, but even this game is on the fence for me. I never finished Nemesis but I did finish this game, so it wins out over that game. Despite the improvements on Nemesis, Whitechapel feels like a shell of what it should have been - it should have been bustling, overcrowded, packed with crime and protests, the lowest of the low, disgusting and unsanitary. So it is that I only recommend it tentatively, and only if you haven't played Crimes and Punishments, and The Testament of.
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It's my first online game (at age 63!) and I loved it. I thought the characterizations were quite good, and the deduction/conclusion is absolutely logical. I learned some things about the case of which I wasn't aware--and I actually know a lot about Jack the Ripper. I did get hung up on some of the puzzles, and since it was my first game, I cheated a bit with guides. If those hadn't existed, I might have been frustrated.
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Online players
12
Developer
Frogwares
Publisher
Frogwares
Release
23 Dec 2009
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