I'm of both minds, as I indicated a couple of pages back. Without getting into the issue of how to express these opinions, I'll just say that, yeah, this movie doesn't seem particularly true to the Holmes mythos, but it does look like great fun, too. I wish it just had a different title. Frankly, if I were going to make a satirical trailer about Hollywood-izing the character, it would be an awful lot like the one they've released.
Crapholes to it!
An upcoming XBox game looks more interesting actually.
The sometimes used fact that Holmes was around during the time of The Ripper murders has turned up explicitly in "Murder by Decree" and danced around in "A Study in Terror"...But there is now going to be a "Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper" game.
Looks interesting, even if the voices for Holmes and Watson are less than stellar. Should have got Clive Merrison.
Is it a port of this PC version, do you know?
If it is, I played it a few weeks ago, and
loved it. It was reasonably challenging, but not impossible, and pretty well written. It uses real facts and suspects from the actual Ripper murders, and forms a pretty coherent, plausible theory as to the identity of the killer. It also weaves all this seamlessly into the conception of Holmes as a real detective, even going so far as to formulating reasons why the things you discover in the game do not affect the real history of the case.
You also have to recreate crime scenes, test possible murder weapons, and lay facts out in front of you in the proper order to draw logical conclusions. It's one of the best adventure-style games I've ever played. Can't recommend it enough, at least as far as the PC version goes. I don't know if the X-Box version is going to be a direct port, or something else entirely.
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