Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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 1,179 reviews of which 953 were positive and 226 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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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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I'm playing Frogwares games in release order and this is the first game I can wholeheartedly recommend. - Atmospheric, grim, gritty, exactly what is expected from Jack the Ripper story - Puzzles mostly make sense and are just difficult enough, I've opened the guide only out of laziness - Many features that make you feel like you truly do detective work Also, interactable zones highlight is the best thing that happened to Point&Click genre since ever, but unfortunately, the button is not listed in controls. It's Space, use it, and good luck, detective.
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If you're looking for a decent entry point to the Frogware Sherlock franchise, start here Unlike the previous games in the serie, this one doesn't have a too outdated engine (although the framerate is choppy even on modern cards), and doesn't force you into tedious pixel hunting puzzles, or a really random literary crossover that doesn't work. Of course that doesn't mean the game is perfect. It has all the jank you can expect from a semi casual 3D detective game from 2009. Some of the puzzles don't make sense or are only solvable with a walkthrough. Although I must say I did manage to solve most of them by myself, which is a good thing. There are a few annoyances like for example a certain door that will only be open after you've gone through a dialog with an unrelated character. But thankfully, this sort of problem only happened once at the begining of the game. There is also an ellipse puzzle that is broken on widescreen monitors, so you'll have to use the guide available here on Steam to know how to solve it. Another problem is that the game doesn't display your current objective anywhere and you can feel lost, especially after you've loaded a save. Globally though, the QoL aspect is rather satisfying, the option to use the space bar at any time to see the interactable objects saves the day, and the game was rather comfy to play. The story is the best aspect, they made a torough serious work on the Ripper story, most of the documents presented are real documents from that era. It will leave a bit of a sour taste at the end of the game. The story leads you through several intertwined leads with just the right amount of complexity. I found it had a better story than most of the movies about Sherlock or the Ripper that I've seen so far. The devs have chosen one of the theories about Jack as their one, and they were brave enough to notice the "coïncidences". Lots of "coincidences" living in that borough. The puzzles are varied across the game which doesn't fall into a gameplay routine. The game sometimes makes you feell ike you're being led by the hand, but this is a good thing for the immersion. The most annoying aspect of the game was the voice actor for Sherlock, who reads his lines like he doesn't care, in a very robotic way, and seems to be recovering frop throat cancer. It was really hard to listen. (follow my curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33882793/]GenXPlayers for more retro and indie reviews)
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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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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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