Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4217 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sold Out Software
• Released on: 2005-12-02
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Windows XP

Customer Reviews

Paris in the fall...
The Broken Sword saga kicks off with the best you can get in point 'n' click adventure. You play George Stobbart, an American tourist who's visiting Europe. After a stop off for a coffee at a French cafe, George finds himself chasing after an international assassin dressed as a clown, gets dragged into a global conspiracy with roots going back to the 11th century, travels the world in trying to find pieces of a puzzle to a mysterious document and to top it all off he gets continuously heckled by a French journalist.

Although this sounds like something Dave Gorman would end up doing by accident after getting drunk, the game itself is a supurb piece of entertainment. The puzzles take you in gradually - there's nothing here that is so quirky and so abstract you'll hurt yourself thinking about it -and the first half an hour is probably the most fun I've had on a computer game. Revolution had a go at the adventure genre with Lure of the Temptress, improved upon it with Beneath the Steel Sky and ended up with creating one of the most likeable characters to grace a computer screen, with no small thanks to Rolf Saxon who plays him.

BS 2 goes off on a tangent with more quirky humour and slightly harder puzzles. Indeed, at one point George himself states that "I scare myself sometimes" when trying to work out one in a particular. This makes out that the creators are self-aware and know how other games can very nearly be impossible to work out unless you use the old "try everything with everything else" technique which gives no sense of enjoyment - just relief that you can get on with your life. The second - and the rest of them - are enjoyable, but the first will never be beaten.

American hero, French heroine, British humour. Supurb.

Pure Genius
This is perhaps the greatest point and click saga ever made and in my opinion the greatest games period. The humour, action,puzzles and voice work is superb. Believe me when I say YOU MUST OWN THIS GAME!!!! You wont regret it.
p.s I'd advise buying this with the third game Sleeping Dragon, the best of the series.
p.p.s A new game will be arriving soon called the Angel of Death.

Excellent series
The whole Broken Sword series is excellent. Lot of puzzles to keep your brain going. The earlier ones are slightly easier than the newer series so you may wish to try these first before progressing but I would certainly recommend them