Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Wii) Reviews

Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars is a Wii port of the original Broken Sword game. Anyone who's familiar with the original games, or indeed any of the early 90s Point 'n' Click games will love this game. As I said, it's a point 'n' click, in a similar vein to Monkey Island or Day of The Tentacle, but somewhat more serious. You ...  Read the complete review

In the late 80s and early 90s one genre of game dominated my play time. An era before the likes of Doom made FPS all powerful. Way back from GTA3 and its sandbox gaming. The genre was the humble Point 'n' Click (PnC). On consoles the genre was all but forgotten left to PC gamers to pick up the odd title that was until the Wii came. With its ...  Read the complete review

Having been a huge fan of the original I was most excited when I heard Broken Swords was being re-made for the wii and DS platform. The type of gameplay and script are ideally suited to the interactive features of the nintendo consoles. The storyline is the same winning formula as before. You start the game playing an unwitting George, ...  Read the complete review

As a fan of the broken sword series from plastation1 through to playstation 2 I was soooo excited to hear that they were releasing Shadow of the Templars for the wii and pre-ordered it straight away. When I first put it on I was a bit dismayed at the quality of the graphics but think this may have had something to do with the fact that I had only ...  Read the complete review