Planet Bob

Holmes?

It really is a hint, but not as in Sherlock

 

Don't think you can guess it, just another C64 game time forgot...

 

Hm... shall I stay up another 40 minutes and see if Mega Man 9 arrived in Europe, or go to bed?

I'm rereading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I love it, but every Sherlock Holmes game I've ever seen reviewed has looked astoundingly boring. Never played one, though.

 

Seems like it would be hard to do a detective game as a detective game: gather clues, interpret them, follow leads, etc. Seems like you'd need a game world as rich and alive as GTA3+, but they seem to have put that game engine to, um, 'other' uses...

I'm rereading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I love it, but every Sherlock Holmes game I've ever seen reviewed has looked astoundingly boring. Never played one, though.

 

I thought the mid 90s point'n'click ones from EA where supposed to be very good:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/lost-fil...errated-scalpel

 

Never played one of the series though.

 

I think one of these is is currently being ported to the Wii:

http://www.sherlockholmes-thegame.com/en/sh/

 

Seems like it would be hard to do a detective game as a detective game: gather clues, interpret them, follow leads, etc. Seems like you'd need a game world as rich and alive as GTA3+, but they seem to have put that game engine to, um, 'other' uses...

 

I don't remember ever playing a detective game that was fun. Most seem to require being at the right place at the right time or making cross-conclusions out of long dialogs, both of which usually requires to make notes on paper, which isn't what I like to do in video games.

 

I know later installments of the Tex Murphy series were quite popular detective games, but I didn't ever get into them either.