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Sherlock Holmes is taking on Cthulhu again in a remake of 2007’s The AwakenedWill Creepy Watson return though?
Will Creepy Watson return though?
Name’s Sherlock: Prologue Trailer | Sherlock Holmes Chapter OneSherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an Unreal Engine 4 remake of Frogwares' 2007 original, but there’s no trailer yet.Watch on YouTube
Name’s Sherlock: Prologue Trailer | Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
The developers have been thinking of remaking The Awakened for a while now, but felt this was the perfect time. Frogwares say that the case will serve as the catalyst for Holmes to become the person we all know and find slightly irritating. For Watson and Holmes, it’ll prove to be “a profound and haunting experience that essentially brings them together”. Bad boys for life, dear Watson.
Young Sherlock is back in Blighty for Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening’s remake.
This version of The Awakened isn’t the game you may have played years before, even if it superficially resembles it. None of the earlier game’s code or assets are being used. Instead, Frogwares say they’ve been able to “cleverly rework” some of the assets from Chapter One for this Unreal Engine 4 remake. Although the story and cases from 2007’s The Awakened will mostly remain intact, feature designers team lead Jaroslav Martyniuk says that they’re “adding entirely new gameplay mechanics while reworking the original ones to expand the ways players will be solving the cases”. There’ll be entirely fresh voice-acting too, plus changes to the third-person camera and – yay – extra side-quests.
Frogwares have announced they’ll be funding part of The Awakened remake’s development through a Kickstarter campaign. Like otherUkrainian developers, Frogwares have been through some difficult realities this year. They’ve also had to contend with publication issues around 2019’s similarly LovecraftianThe Sinking City, which arose from adisputewith publisher Nacon. It got to the point where Frogwares actually asked peoplenot to buythe game on Steam.
Alice Bee enjoyed her time playing the previous entry in the series for herSherlock Holmes: Chapter One review. “This is a game in which I made an inflatable sex doll for an elephant!” she said. “Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is somehow both the best game that I have ever played while also being as smart as a bag of rocks.” Typical Conan Doyle with his elephant sex dolls.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened doesn’t have a release window just yet but you can expect to play it on PC, although it’ll be coming to Xboxes, PlayStations and Nintendo Switch too. I’ll let you know when the first trailer awakens. If you fancy checking out the original then you can find it onSteamandGOGfor £9/$10/€10.
