Posted on: December 28, 2020

piteog

Games: 6 Reviews: 1

Crashes frequently

The game is not surviving the progression of technology. I've had multiple crashes. It's from the era where everything made the jump to 3D, before we realized that not everything needed to make that jump. As such, the controls aren't great, and there's puzzles that are more physics based than logic based. Like pushing crates around. Apparently there's a bunch of those. I wish, like the previous entries in this series, you could skip through conversations. When the game crashes and you have to replay a fair chunk, it would come in handy. Save often.

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Posted on: November 7, 2010

maartenm

Verified owner

Games: 32 Reviews: 1

A story of missed opportunities

Three stars is a bit harsh but the reputation of the series calls for some amount of harshness. All in all, BS III is the least one out of the three. Unlike what I expected, it wasn't the graphics or the controls or anything like that. The story starts out really good, with a nice murder investigation, and some great locations. Midway the game falls completely flat on its face, with a ridiculous repetition of create-moving puzzles and way-too-simple adventuring. The game also isn't "snappy" enough to push those slow-moving and tedious parts of it into the background of the experience. Although it has to be said that backtracking is never really demanded of the player so solving the puzzles isn't too frustrating. In fact, the puzzles are often too easy. It's a nice adventure game, but somehow you can feel that things were either too ambitious and never fully developed, or not ambitious enough, during the development.

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Posted on: October 16, 2011

RaivokasMagma

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Games: 478 Reviews: 4

Great game (with one hell of a climax)

I found this game to be great. Better than the BS2. It had it's flaws like crate puzzles and awkward controls, but otherwise story was great, jokes were good, music was good and graphics were nice. It is worth playing, just for the climax. I highly recommend this game, altough it isn't point and click game like first two Broken Sword game.

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Posted on: June 19, 2010

colanzo

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Games: 50 Reviews: 1

Great move to 3D

If you enjoy a good story, quality voice acting, enjoyable cut scenes and don't mind the occasional action element (which in any case reverts to just before you fail until you get it right), then I highly recommend this episode. I immediately sought out a copy of the next in the series after finishing it as both my wife and I enjoyed it so much.

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Posted on: December 31, 2023

EwigWandernd

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Games: 739 Reviews: 263

I wanted to like it

I'm a big fan of Broken Sword 1, 2 and 5. But this one? Nope, sadly I can't really recommend it, the controls are mediocre, the amount of crate pushing is atrocious and even the writing falls short of the charme and humour of the originals. 1 of the two Stars is for having nice representation of a goth though

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