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Stalin
03-24-2007, 02:16 AM
Today i was browsing the Frogwares website( Check it out it has a new design - www.frogwares.com ) and i clicked on the games section.There I saw a new Sherlock Holmes game in development.It is said Q3 2007 for release.The present name of the new Sherlock Holmes game is "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes against Arsene Lupin"
Here it is the description:
Adventure PC game - release Q3 2007 - under development

In the fourth chapter, our favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes, receives a strange letter signed "Arsene Lupin", the famous gentleman thief. The latter challenges Holmes to prevent him from doing the incredible robberies that he has planned to do here, in London, with the purpose of humiliate England itself. With patriotic fervor, the English detective decides to stop the Frenchman but the task will not be easy: Lupin's skill, his numerous disguises, and his audacity transform this chase into a matter of honour and integrity for the two men. Two wits are fighting together in 19th century London where even the Queen Herself could have cause for concern!

Also i scrolled the page down and found that Frogwares are working on a new Dracula game.Here is what they say about the game and why they are going to make it: "Encouraged by our successes in problem-solving and adventure games, as well as our passion for the fantastic world of the 19th century, we have started to work on Dracula".
The name of the new Dracula game is : "Dracula:Origins" .
Here is the Description:
Adventure PC game - Release in 2008 - work in progress

How did Dracula become a vampire? He was a passionate, deeply religious man, but was broken by his wife's suicide; the soul of the woman he worshipped was damned! Crazy with grief and rage, he damned himself by choosing the Devil. He hid the profound suffering of the loss of his love and became an immortal monster, devoted to destruction. His inconsolable sorrow and his infinite hate carry him to search eternally for revenge; thus, he discovers that there exists somewhere an antediluvian manuscript with the details of a ritual , a ritual that would show how to awaken the infernal souls. At last, Dracula thinks he has found the way to bring back to life his love from beyond… for starters. You are Professor Van Helsing, and your life is devoted to the elimination of Dracula. You must prevent Dracula from finding and using the manuscript; you must help everyone who crossed paths with the count and refused to serve him; you must eliminate Count Dracula. The inquiry leads you from London to an Egyptian necropolis, from a Viennese palace to a cursed monastery, to finish in the famous lair of Dracula. A delightfully gothic adventure game.
Another great news from them is that the first Sherlock Holmes game - The Mystery of the mummy is going to be released for the Nintendo DS handheld console.According to me DS is a great for adventure games.There are several adventure games that are out now and several that are going to be released this year - the two PR games , Ankh , Nancy Drew , Sherlock Holmes(i think that in another interview i read that maybe other Sherlock Holmes games made by Frogwares could find their way to the DS too , and their other games too.) , Sinking Island , etc.I see a great possibility for other adventure games released in the past to be released for the DS too , but the time will tell.
That is for now.Browse Frogwares's games section page and see at the bottom.There is another game in development right now , but no info about it.
:devil: Stalin

Stalin
03-24-2007, 06:12 AM
Just to put the thread back up so people could see it.
:devil: Stalin

Nautilus
03-25-2007, 08:41 PM
Dracula deserves a third title! Perhaps this time it will not be a panorama game. Here in Brazil the first two games were released in newstands and bookstores, fully translated in Portuguese and featuring professional dubbing actors.

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ATMachine
03-26-2007, 05:10 AM
Looks like Frogwares is having translation troubles again. "The Awakened" was originally the nonsensical "The Awaken" and now there's another blunder. The French word "contre" in the title of the source material, the play "Arsene Lupin contre Sherlock Holmes," is best translated into English as "versus," but Frogwares translated it literally as "against," which sounds rather odd to English-speakers.

Also, how well-known is M. Lupin outside France? Does his name justify being put in the title? I know the English-speaking reading public, for one, doesn't know much about him.

jacog
03-26-2007, 05:19 AM
Hey I am definitely not in France but know Arsene Lupin. Personally I think a Lupin game where you played as him would make a better adventure game.

Kurufinwe
03-26-2007, 05:20 AM
Looks like Frogwares is having translation troubles again. "The Awakened" was originally the nonsensical "The Awaken" and now there's another blunder.
You think it makes more sense now? It may be grammatically correct, but, even after completing the game twice, I have no idea who or what the titular Awakened was/were. :crazy:

Also, how well-known is M. Lupin outside France?
Not very well, obviously, since some people seem to believe that Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès is a play. :P

jacog
03-26-2007, 05:31 AM
There were a few of those short stories where Maurice Leblanc stuck Sherlock Holmes into Lupin tales. He had to call him Herlock Sholmes though since AC Doyle complained about the crossover.

I still think Lupin deserves a game of his own.

ATMachine
03-26-2007, 11:30 AM
You think it makes more sense now? It may be grammatically correct, but, even after completing the game twice, I have no idea who or what the titular Awakened was/were. :crazy:


Not very well, obviously, since some people seem to believe that Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès is a play. :P
Shows what I get for a hasty Wikpedia read. :)

Edit: A quick Google found this (http://www.amazon.com/Arsene-Lupin-Vs-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/1932983163), which may be the source of my confusion. Not by Leblanc though.

And I dislike "The Awaken" mostly because it's completely grammatically incorrect.

AdrianWerner
03-26-2007, 10:46 PM
Nice. Awakaned has it's problems, but it did have potential. It seems frogwares is improving their 3d adventures, slower than I would have wished, but they definitly are on to something there

Fop
03-27-2007, 05:35 AM
Dracula doesn't seem to be faithful to the source material at all.