Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3774 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2006-09-15
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
When the forces of ancient worlds, and past forgotten myths battle against the power of old friends. When current emotions clash with past regret, and when some guys in York design cunning puzzles, write funny scripts and orchestrate the type of music to make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, it can only mean the fourth instalment of Broken Sword has been born.

After reluctantly battling dragons, Mayan gods and becoming a Knight of a long lost Holy Order, unwitting hero George Stobbart settles down to a life of mundane 9-5 office work. Who would have thought that a mysterious and beautiful woman would enter his life; a woman whose sudden disappearance draws him into a desperate search for a nefarious artefact of great and terrible power. (Well apart from those guys in York, that is)

Emotion, humour, time pressure and puzzling combine for the latest Broken Sword Adventure and unfortunately for George, it looks like the world needs saving one more time.

Customer Reviews

Broken Sword: The Angel Of Death (PC)
Having just completed the game I am left feeling the whole thing was one big practical joke and I wish I could get those hours of my life back.
I loved the first two in the series but this failed on every aspect.
The graphics were bad but the animations were awful.
The puzzles were mostly very linear and boring.
The story was pretty disjointed and never actually went anywhere.
The characters were all extremely dull other than being so annoying you wanted to bash them all to death with that rather handy golf club you solve every second puzzle with.

THis is the official end to Broken Sword, they messed it up again.
After being a huge fan of Broken Sword 1 & 2, and replaying them many times, I was let down by this game, after having high hopes for it.

The game mechanics are not well defined and feel slightly random.

The scene's are boring to look at.

The story isnt gripping or exciting.

Failure.

Nope, Sorry.
I wanted to love this game. I LOVED BS1 and 2. I have played them so many times over the years and they never get old. BS3 was more disappointing, all those box puzzles and sneaking around. If adventure games wanted sneaking around, wouldn't we go and buy lara croft or something?

I had hopes for BS4, especially because I naively believed the developers would listen to the fans after 3, but this is the worst. That Anna Maria I could strangle, the game is far too dark, the story is under-developed, the locations are few, didn't like the PDA was (done better in moments of silence), no one except George (naturally, there'd be uproar) has their original voice actor and the ending... dear god it was awful!! I could cry.

Now I hear tell there will be a movie. They are going to have to tread vvvvvvvveeerrry carefully with this one. I think sometimes, that the movie makers should just leave some things alone y'know?