Frogwares studios, the developer, has decided to change its engine to Epic Unreal Engine 3 as to the previous in-house engine, so the new series will be an important testing round for the company.
Even though the new engine will allow the developer to create an open world, due to its detective characteristics, the game will not be an open world. Rather than traveling from world to world, cities to cities, the incident will take place in one place, so if you were expecting a diverse world compacted in one area, this won't be the game of your choice.
The game does introduce some improved graphics and 14 new game mechanics. Thanks to the rich rendering from the new game engine, the player will now be able to investigate the key features of the crime scene, induce how the victim lived and what caused his/her death. The player will also be able to observe the behavior of the culprit, guess how he lived and reconsruct the past events that led to the crime incident.
The series was inspired from the recent BBC Sherlock series: BBC TV series that started in 2010, placing the Sherlock Holmes stories in the present day The series is known to show the protagonist's thoughts to the views in the form of texts. This is what Crimes and Punishments try to convey.
Players will have to look for clues and match all the puzzle pieces to solve one case. The result, however, may not always be the truth and may have accused an innocent person as some aspect of uncertainty has been added to the new series. For example, there might be three case scenario for the death of a single woman. She might have committed suicide, died of an accidental death or been killed by some one. Whatever the decision the player makes, the player will have to bear with the consequences.
The detective will have the power to release some of the real criminals back into the society if the detective sees it as no importance for the moment.
Most of the females portrayed in the former series were prostitutes and criminals. This may be changed and some normal female characters may be brought to life.
There is also the issue of the eerie Watson, Holmes faithful assistant from the former series as he follows Holmes where ever he goes. He would suddenly disappear and suddenly appear in front of or at an unexpected location. This feature has been added to the Crime and Punishment series.
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