Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
- OS: Windows 2000/XP with DirectX 7
- CPU: 350 MHz
- RAM: 64 MB
- 130 MB hard disk space
- Graphics card with 8 MB
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is a 2002 published point-and- click adventure game from Frogster. It is the first game developed by Frogwares games series based on Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.
Action
After the British archaeologist Lord came Montcalfe under mysterious circumstances to death, to his daughter Elizabeth turns for help to the private detective Sherlock Holmes. As his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson is on a vacation trip, Holmes decides to investigate the alone since his death uninhabited property of the Lord. There he has to apply his skills to solve the mystery that surrounds this case.
Gameplay
The game is played in first person view, where you. Acts in the role of Sherlock Holmes and moves in rendered backgrounds, which gives the impression of a three-dimensional environment Possible Change of scene are represented by a special cursor in hand shape and completed with one click. Also by clicking bulk objects can be collected, used and combined. Two icons are used to call the inventory and a notepad that contains all the documents obtained in the course of history as well as Sherlock Holmes's notes on the progress of the story. In addition, the loading and saving the game on the notepad is possible.
The challenge of the game is the main thing in finding and combining different items and solving of classic logic based puzzles.
Background
The Mystery of the Mummy was published on 29 April 2009 for Nintendo DS.
The game differs significantly from the following titles of the series. It is particularly striking that it contains almost no interaction with other people. Also, it is not really about the strips detective work, but the release of classic mystery.
Reception
Although the website Adventure-Treff praised the coherent storyline and the beautifully rendered cutscenes, but criticized the blurry graphics, the almost complete absence of music and animation as well as detached from the history puzzle. They came to the conclusion that the game is " only recommended to all those who describe themselves as avid Sherlock Holmes fans. " Summary score was 59 %.
In the magazine PC Games, the game received a rating of 23%. They complained that the story " as little charm [ sprayed ] as the wooden recited dialogues " and comes to the conclusion that the game is " really just for hobby puzzler who have already plundered the puzzle book - stock of their magazine shop" suitable.