Lovecraft meets Conan Doyle

[Urlik]

Sherlock Holmes - The Awakened

In this terrifying adventure you play the part of Sherlock Holmes, the great detective himself. Assisted by your loyal friend, Doctor Watson, you must investigate a series of strange disappearances. The discovery of grisly clues soon reveals that something more sinister is afoot, and in the shadows there lies a sinful and disturbing sect of Cthulhu worshippers.

The meeting of Sherlock Holmes with the myth of Cthulhu results in a startling confrontation between the rational and the supernatural. Apply your own logic and reasoning throughout the investigation and pursue the final unravelling in the purest style of a Conan Doyle novel.

this could be interesting

gamespot revue
http://http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/sherlockholmestheawakened/review.html?sid=6168180

IGN revue
IGN: Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Review

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Sounds like they took their cues from the anthology, Shadows Over Baker Street!

Although I am hardly a video game afficionado, I must admit that this review compels me to play it if the opportunity arises.

One bone of contention though: Based upon the screen shots provided, the physical design, modeling and texture mapping on the characters is exceptionally weak as are the environments they interact in. As far as a sense of brooding atmosphere goes, it's utterly devoid of such.

Lovecraft's writings have retained their power over the years because the concepts that animate them are a part of his distinctive weltanschauung. However, in a visual medium like video games or movies, a stronger visual sensibility will be neccessary if this game hopes to captivate its audience and to translate Lovecraft's vision of cosmic terror to the small screen.

 

[Urlik]

One bone of contention though: Based upon the screen shots provided, the physical design, modeling and texture mapping on the characters is exceptionally weak as are the environments they interact in. As far as a sense of brooding atmosphere goes, it's utterly devoid of such.

for a computer game which does manage to convey the full brooding atmosphere, try "Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth"
a few historical inaccuracies but the sense of mounting fear definitely makes up for that

link for Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Hi Urlik:

Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'll be checking this game out.

 

[Urlik]

I have been playing PC games since the Commodore PET came out and Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is the first that has really scared me

when an FPS starts you off with no weapons and the setting and atmosphere is in the true Lovecraft style, the point at which you are finally given a weapon begs the question "what on Earth is coming up next?"

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Well, I'm old school. I'm also something of a hypocrite I suppose as I've made a living working in that industry (I started my career by creating the character Goro from Mortal Kombat), yet I'm not an enthusiast or even a regular player of video games.

However, your recommendation does strike my interest though . . . .

 

[Connavar]

Haha this sounds so wierd mix.


Hope they make an interesting game out of it

 

[clovis-man]

Haha this sounds so wierd mix.

Well, it's weird and not weird at the same time. Doyle's Holmes character always looked for rational solutions to problems/mysteries. Even the late Holmes stories did not deviate from this. But in much of Doyle's other late writings (even the Lost World series) and in his obsessive pursuit of spiritualism and faeries, he personally wandered into Lovecraft's domain.

I feel that the great detective would have chided Doyle on his gullibility. But I have no idea how he would react to the "un-nameable".

Regards,

Jim

 

[ravenus]

Heh yeah, I remember having to plod through this dull and obvious plug-piece for spiritualism called The Land of Mists in the Professor Challenger series by ACD. Doyle's real-life persona really reminds one of his first-person characters like Watson and Malone, curious about things and just that bit gullible to be taken in by a half-decent scheme.

 

[Joel007]

Well, I'm old school. I'm also something of a hypocrite I suppose as I've made a living working in that industry (I started my career by creating the character Goro from Mortal Kombat), yet I'm not an enthusiast or even a regular player of video games.

However, your recommendation does strike my interest though . . . .

Goro eh? My friend says you created a "well hard boss", and congratulates you

 

[j d worthington]

There's also the fact that HPL was a great fan of S.H. when he was young -- and several of his stories have detective elements to them (characters that piece together various clues to mysteries, etc.)... so it's really not that far-fetched.....

 

[Lobolover]

Uh,seems odd.Much like the pastiche cross between Doyle and Robert W. Chambers