[h1][b]Sherlock Holmes: the mistery of the mummy * 6/10[/b][/h1] I decided to try the whole Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogware And I chose to start specifically from their very first adventure. It started in windowed mode and there's no option ingame. I had a few crash loading the 3rd level, the 5th level, and the menu after final credit rolls but everything seems to be solved by setting the Win XP SP3 compatibility, or by skipping the cutscenes. This game takes you inside a mansion where you can see in First person view and you may freelook simply pointing your cursor to the sides of the screen. You move and interact with the classic Point and click system, so nothing particular or new in the gameplay, actually it's pretty minimalist, as you only use your mouse with its left button. Unfortunately there's no way to examine items unless you pick them up from your inventory as nothing shows when you hover on them through the inventory, nor there's a specific function. It's no...

I dont think this was considered good in 2002, which means its definetly not good now. The game is just littered with pointless impossible puzzles that dont make any sense and defy the laws of physics, and when your not doing those you are going on a wonderful pixel hunt with the thing your looking for being a tiny black dot in the bottom of the screen. The world is literally a panorama shot where you 'look around' for things to infuriate you more. The only way I actually managed to somehow finish this was by watching another person suffer on you-tube as the final puzzle will take around 40mins to solve (Correctly) and the first time you do it correctly it will fail you anyways. If you are getting the Sherlock Collection (Which I would highly recommend as every other Sherlock game is Fantastic) then by all means give it a go, but as a game by itself.......dont.

This game hasn't aged well, and I doubt it was ever much fun to begin with. Moving around and picking up evidence is a total pixel hunt, and the game as a whole handles poorly. It's incredibly easy to get stuck because the game wants you to do some random illogical interaction to move on which you usually find by just clicking on everything until something happens. Dying and end of level cutscenes crash the game on windows 7. The voice acting is so bad it's actually pretty funny. The story was almost acceptable, but Holmes' customary explanation of the mystery at the end was badly done and I couldn't understand it. I wouldn't play this unless you really want to beat the whole Holmes series, or you bought the bundle and feel like you might as well try it.

Released back in 2002, Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy hasn't aged well. The pseudo-3D environments having been design for smaller monitor resolutions are pixelated on today's larger and wider resolutions, this results in making the already hidden objects in the game harder to find by being unable to clearly see them. Also it is not stable on modern systems as I had several crash to desktop's while playing the game. Thankfully they are predictable as they usually occurred during cutscenes and with saving before solving a puzzle little progress would be lost. The puzzles in the game are very challenging and added the fact there is timed segments and puzzles that result in Sherlock Holmes death if you get them wrong. This game is a real challenge and should only be reccomended to adventure game fanatics. Everybody else just skip this one and go for the more recent Sherlock Holmes games.

An interesting story severely hampered by technical problems and some obtuse puzzles I'll say this right off the bat: I do not recommend this game unless you are extraordinarily patient and forgiving. I finished this game to completion and I enjoyed the story overall, and some of the puzzles were fun, but playing this game in 2020 I encountered some severe technical problems that made actually playing the game a painful chore. First off, [url=https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/6799c1e043/?page=0]consult this thread[/url] for how to properly set-up DxWind to play this game properly, as the included version is old and pretty much broken on Windows 10. The game may launch, but your mouse movement will be all sorts of messed up. Through some tinkering with DxWind you can get the mouse back to being functional, but it will be inverted, and so the linked thread will tell you how to replace the outdated DxWind version included in the Steam install as well as how to im...

I like the Sherlock Holmes games, but not this one. It's definitely the worst of the bunch. First of all, you can't change the resolution. The entire game looked blurry. Sherlock's voice acting is passable, but everyone else's is laughably bad. (Also, Sherlock mispronounces "laudanum," which bothers me more than it should.) This game commits the worst adventure game sins: pixel hunting, puzzles that are either mindless busywork or completely inscrutable, and unintuitive use of inventory items. The game doesn't explain the rules or objectives of many puzzles. For instance, one puzzle requires you to place exactly four liters of water on a depression. You're not told that's the amount you need, which, considering there's no earthly reason that putting more weight on it wouldn't work, should really be included. One puzzle is a nonogram, something I had never seen before, and the game gave no instructions. The final puzzle is solved by randomly clicking things in your inventory, with n...

I picked this game up during a sale awhile ago because the series seemed interesting. I figured I would start at the beginning. On it's own merits though this is a pretty terrible game. In it's defense it's also a really OLD game. And it's not like it was easier to make them back then either. A good adventure game should be reasonably intuitive. At some point it's going to degenerate into click everything in your inventory on every object you can, but it doesn't have to be that way all the time. Mystery of the Mummy on the other hand has objects that are very easy to miss. Sherlock himself would have trouble uncovering the mystery of the missing item in the inventory. The dialog is so cheesy that I almost want to call it a feature. At some point I should finish this, but I didn't really feel like it engaged me.

sorry but this game is scrap ... the graphic, an insult for your eyes and the gameplay, confusing

I didn't beat this game, but if I did, I bet I'd be very impressed with myself for the intricate and puzzling puzzles. I admit that I only got maybe 60% of the game's plot done and then I gave up, because I really suck at some puzzle games, this one definitely killed me. The writing was great though, and I ended just watching youtube videos of the game online, since I got lazy. But the point and click gameplay first person gameplay isn't impressive or gamechanging. 7.5/10 Edit: Three years later and I decided to actually beat the game myself. Would recommend a walkthrough, lol.

Humble, yet rough start. Story: You play as the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. After the death of Lord Montcalfe his daughter Elisabeth has called in a request to figure out the circumstances of his death, but when you arrive you find that the case is a lot more complicated and sinister than first thought. The storyline overall is fine enough, but it's rather rough at places. There's generally not much interesting stuff going in the plot until the final few sections of the game when the revelations start creeping in. The first half of the game feels very poorly paced and doesn't do enough to make they mystery entertaining even though it has a really interesting opening level. Graphics: The graphics aged about as gracefully as milk left under a radiator. The environments look very rough although there's a good chunk of variety, from personal museums, basements and even tombs. However nothing looks particularly pleasing to look at, there's a lot of blurry environments and the...