Posted on: December 15, 2010

Fedgit

Games: 975 Reviews: 1

Cool.

Conspiracy, secret society, world domination, etc are essential for good thriller. Broken Sword, though deal with those elements, are not dark or gloomy but funny. Quite hilarious mood flow naturally through its plot. Also, if you stuck with some point, you can access hint and do exactly what required current situation(That's the best point in this game. 'cause I always stuck while playing other adv game, waste time for solutions :) ). Although you must play puzzle almost every scene of game(plus repairing something), and whole plot of antagonists are broken off by just mere American tourist is littile bothersome and bizarre :). But this game is cool, fun, and worth playing.

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Posted on: July 11, 2012

CaptainHayashi

Verified owner

Games: 86 Reviews: 1

Still an excellent experience

Broken Sword has always held a special place in my heart, especially because it was Revolution's follow up to my favourite adventure ever, Beneath a Steel Sky. It's great to see Revolution go back over one of their classics and add more to it, and even better to find the result bundled with the original here on GOG. Broken Sword (both versions thereof) feature the mixture of involving setting, well-approached mystery plot and the same subtle but excellent British humour that made BaSS a classic, and the characters' responses and depth of plot make each playthrough worthwhile and rewarding. The game has it all- drama, comedy, history, danger, and even pixies. Moving onto the remastering, and unfortunately the Director's Cut is a bit of a mixed bag. The new sections are nicely written and help to develop Nico's character, and the new puzzles add a bit of variety to what is otherwise a point-and-click through and through (except one puzzle that actually became a lot easier in the DC!), but as previous reviews have pointed out the presentation is a bit of a sore point; the issue here is that 2010 and 1996 don't mix very well. The new scenes have been created with a different voice cast from the rest of the game, and it's obvious. The new sound doesn't suffer from the compression artefacts of the original game's (which hasn't been re-recorded or remastered for the DC) and the result is jarring (you can literally tell what lines they've changed in the DC at times). The artwork is the same - 2010 Nico is smoothly rendered and well-animated in all the places where 1996 George looks blurry and blocky. The new scenes are, on the whole, quite good (if a bit too sparing and too concentrated towards the start). The new plot steals the show away from the excellent original intro, so I'd recommend playing the original first, but seeing the beginning from Nico's point of view is a welcome change and one that sets George's adventure into a bit more context. My one regret is the change in George at the start of his part from someone who's nearly been killed (and rightly wants to know why) to someone who has an innate and somewhat ill-fitting belief that justice *must* be served and *he* MUST be the one to serve it. I'm giving this a 5 stars mainly on the merits of the game itself, rather than the DC (which would get about a 3 or 4 from me), but it's still worth playing through the remastering. (After seeing the original intro, that is.)

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Posted on: December 12, 2019

niklasboelter

Games: 179 Reviews: 2

No German original

For German speakers: Note that the original German version is not included, you need to buy from a different store for that. The German voice acting in the original is absolutely brilliant and much better than the English version.

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Posted on: June 16, 2015

UthersonL

Verified owner

Games: 1033 Reviews: 23

Templars vs Assassins before it was cool

One of the more intuitive point&click adventure games (like Syberia or Sam & Max: Save the World). Average length, quite a few chuckles along the way. More than solid - actually pretty good, but not brilliant like Broken Sword 2. The content added in the Director's Cut feels a little redundant. The message decoding puzzles (they are new, if memory serves) are a welcome addition, but the other puzzles (slide-puzzle locks, chess piece placement, etc.) are the typical out-of-place contraptions. The game also comes with the soundtrack you'd otherwise have to pay for on iTunes.

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Posted on: May 19, 2023

Svenos

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 14

Original version

I prefer the original version, so thanks for providing it. I can't talk much about the director's cut edition as I found it pretty superfluous and not much of interest. I have no nostalgia bias toward this game as I did not had the luck to play it as a child. This game has it's own place in the golden age of point & click . It's different but interesting at the same time, while still bringing some subtle references to other games of that time. You become some sort of detective in the character of George Stobbart (stubborn). He is quite the annoying kind of person, but he has his ways and a good sense of answering people, despite always being on the offensive. There are many elements in this game that gives a sens of immersion. Paris like other places are beautifully drawn. The creator has really dig into history and french people, and a good culture of the world. Many characters are often looking like cliché, but are in fact anti cliché and kind of break the usual cliché an american could have arriving in foreign places. You really feel involved in the story, and there are few elements in the game that reinforce this feeling, that no other point & click brought. As for the enigma I found them quite logical, and not so complicated. I had pleasure trying all possible dialogues, even if surprises are rare, some are quite iconic. The only point & click I could compare it to is Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis, but way more simple and polished. It has it's own distinguishable flavor, it's kind of cinematic point & click, with a good background story, that feels smooth and satisfying to evolve into. The only downside maybe is that it would have been cool if George could run, sometimes it takes quite some time to walk from one place to one other. A top point & click of the 90's, that stands in it's own fashiong along the lucas arts/sierra and other top titles of this golden age.

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