Focus Home Interactive has released a new gameplay trailer for Crimes & Punishments in which Sherlock Holmes reveals some of his skills, talents, and abilities. Crimes & Punishments is powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 and is currently scheduled for a late September release.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments Release Date: Focus Home Interactive announced today that Crimes & Punishments (also known as Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments), the new investigation game developed by Frogwares studio, is now set for release on consoles and PC on early September 2014.

In order to celebrate the announcement of the game's release, the publisher has also released three new screenshots from it.
These images feature Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigating some of the crime scenes from the 6 exceptional cases the game asks you to solve.

There are two camera views to be available - a first person point of view and a static third person camera. The player is able to change between them at any time. Sherlock can also draw evidence from autopsies and scanning the people he meets. For the latter, players will enter a first-person view for an up-close inspection of a character's face and emotions, clothing and belongings, where he'll find everything from scars and bruises to the quality of an outfit.

The game takes place in London and its suburbs in the 19th century; it resonates with the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky focusing onto finding the right culprit and making the moral choice of absolving or condemning him. The game is the first in the series to use the Unreal Engine 3, and was inspired by both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories and the ITV's Sherlock Holmes television series.

The game is split into seven cases such as murders, disappearances, thefts, etc. written in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle's novels.