Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper – Xbox 360
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 9:22 am
Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper – Xbox 360
In the game take on the role of
both Holmes and Watson in the late summer and fall of 1888, the season
of Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel. The master detective and his chubby
biographer hit the streets the day after the discovery of Mary Ann
Nichols’ body in Buck’s Row and continue their investigations until the
murderer is “identified” following the infamous butchery in Miller’s
Court. Gamepad controls are smart and intuitive to the point that you’ll
never miss a mouse-and-keyboard setup, and a lengthy list of
achievements sees you earning an award every time you solve a
puzzle. Sherlock vs. Jack is superb when it sticks to the meat and
potatoes of the actual Ripper crimes. You get to examine the body of
Annie Chapman with Holmes’ trusty magnifying glass less than an hour
after her death, experiment with butcher knives to see what sort of
weapon is being used in the murders, and even get caught up in the
Leather Apron frenzy. The game is also quite truthful, if a bit linear,
immersing you in the real murders and letting you deduce the answers to
questions about what hand the killer used when cutting, how strong he
was, his knowledge of anatomy, and so forth.
Along with playing detective at the
Ripper crime scenes, Holmes and Watson roam around Whitechapel doing
the delivery-boy shuffle. Everybody you run into wants a favor before
helping you out, so you find yourself analyzing perfumes for a madam in a
brothel, trapping a snake in a pet shop, stopping a gas leak to
liberate a satchel of stolen jewels, tracking down a stolen cane and so
on. At least the item puzzles have enough internal logic that you can
figure them out without resorting to a walk-through.
If you’re a true crime fan in adventure games
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