Developer Frogwares have been trying to get the experience of being Sherlock right for years, and they've finally nailed it - letting you play as the World's Greatest Detective in all his Victorian England glory. Coming across perfectly as someone who's hungry for the next clue, this version of the character takes cues from both the newer Guy Ritchie movies and the BBC show by recreating the violin/bees scene, and letting you look over suspects as labels denoting things like 'Recently married' or 'Works with plants' pop up to form a profile too. By mapping out thought patterns as interactive synapses inside Holmes' brain, you then connect up clues to form 'Deductions', eventually choosing to point the finger at any number of people that can end the extremely detailed cases in a variety of ways. The best moments come as you build up your own idea of what happened, only to trigger Sherlock's imagination and have a vision of the crime realised. You can change assumptions on the fly and review your conclusions afterwards to find out if your ending was the one the developers intended, but if you're content locking up someone you're convinced is the bad guy, the game happily lets you live with that too. Sure the animation could do with being a bit more polished, but in terms of graphics and overall ambition this is the perfect Sherlock game we've all been waiting for - providing the experience many thought L.A. Noire lacked overall.
