Sherlock Holmes The Awakened Remastered

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
OS: Windows 2000/XP (only)
Processor: 1 GHz Pentium and AMD Athlon
RAM: 512 MB
Video Card: 64 MB DirectX 9-compliant video card (NVIDIA GeForce 4Mx and above; ATI Radeon 8000/9000 families and above)
Hard Drive Space: 3 GB free

More than sixty characters that you can interact with will spice the investigation. Hundreds of clues need to be revealed in a certain order and than combined or studied to make up the terrifying story behind the events. Think like Sherlock and you'll do great. Miss out on anything and you're doomed to wonder around helpless. Fortunately the game helps you out a lot as once everything is uncovered at the crime scene this becomes inactive, unlocking the next place to search. The map that enables the detective to fast travel to a certain (already visited) location sometimes proves to be more of a setback than a help. This way you may miss out on a clue on the way or fail to trigger a cutscene. Just keep in mind that the game is all about logical deductions and don't ever try to skip a few steps - it doesn't work that way when you're Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock has its brilliant mind. You'll be granted with even more. Aside from Sherlock's comments on different discoveries, you can also take advantage of an extremely functional inventory. There's a place for the usual items and map from all adventure games, but there is also a place for a dialogs history, documents that you have come across during the investigation and also Sherlock's reports on every found clue. But don't open the champagne just yet as the developers thought of a way of increasing the difficulty of the game even more. In an attempt to allow a more movie-like (or realistic - I'm not sure yet) approach they even eliminated completely the cursor from the view except for the times that you can actually interact with something. Unfortunately there were plenty of situations where I had to wonder along what seemed like miles of plain walls in search of a clue.

The interesting aspect is that there are times when you'll also have to get in control of Watson's actions. The characters interchange manages not to seem artificial or unnecessary in any way, providing you in fact with a more adequate sense of what you always imagined a detective's work would be like. Frankly, Holmes is at times way too observant and seems to get the story right with a lot less clues than you ever imagined so Watson seems like a more appropriate character to play.