Broken Sword II (PS)

Broken Sword 2 is everything a sequel should be and more. All that needs to be different in a sequel to a point and click adventure is the storyline (including location and, when appropriate, atmosphere) and the puzzles. This is what BS2 has done, and it has done it with style! I use the term sequel (this term is used liberally in gaming- Perfect Dark?), although perhaps a more accurate term would be follow-up games, as the plot picks up from 6 months after where Stobbart left us in BS1, and you come across some familiar faces too (I strongly suggest that you finish BS1 before playing this game!). The adventure expands to Mexico (the main setting), keeping ...  Read the complete review

You take the role of George Stobbard, a lean american tourist, with the amazing abillity to store object larger than himself in his coat pockets. After solving the case of the Knights templar the year before George has t return to America, months later he comes back to France to see his girlfriend Nico, who invites him to come with her to meet a famous French archieologist. Sadly for George all is not how it seems, and soon Nico is captured and George finds himself tied to a chair, with a deadly spider walking towards him in a burning down house! Bad luck doesnt even come into it. This is where you begin. You have to rescue Nico, and as the plot unfolds you end ...  Read the complete review

Playing Broken Sword II is pretty much very like taking part in a cartoon adventure. You play either George or Nico, switching between the two characters throughout the game in a quest to save the world. George discovered Nico in South America after she was kidnapped by some strange guy. She revelas to him a plot to take over the world which is being atched by a drug baron who has found a way to unleash an ancient Mayan deity upon us all. George and Nico must travel the globe hunting out various artifacts to stop him before its too late. Its a point and click adventure very much in the style of the Monkey Island games and with an interface and graphics ...  Read the complete review

Broken Sword, is the best series of point n' click adventures of our time, period. They blend humour, mystery and puzzle almost seamlessly and they make the best games I have played.... ever. The second one, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, is no exception and makes for an amazing experience from start to finish. You play as the main protagonist, George Stobbart, an upbeat American who seems to have a knack for getting into trouble in relation to historical artifcats. You start the game in a dock in Marseille and end up in an aztec temple, solving puzzles along the way. You don't need to have plaed the first one to enjoy this, but ...  Read the complete review

Very entertaining game filled with brain teasing puzzles and funny story lines. in the game you are playing and swapping between two characters George or Nico both have the ability to put unlimited amount of objects in to their pockets Idea is you use every day objects to help you unlock doors climb things and basically get out of trouble and dangerous situations in the game. Some of the puzzles towards the end of the game can be quite hard if you don't understand what they are asking you to achieve luckily you can now pop online to find helpful hints and tips to help you achieve your goals in the game. Graphically the game is a bit cartoony but then all the series of ...  Read the complete review