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- Platform: Windows XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
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.
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.
44 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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.
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I bought Broken Sword The sleeping Dragon first and enjoyed it so much I looked for more of the same and discovered Broken Sword 1 and 2 on Amazon.Other reviewers have given these games a glowing report so all I shall do is endorse every good thing they,ve said. At this giveaway price you will be getting a real bargain. Go ahead and buy in case supplies dry up.
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cant get it to work!
i cant get this game to work on windows xp, it installs ok but then as i try to run the game it says THE APPLICATION WAS UNABLE TO START CORRECTLY(0XC0000142) CLICK OK TO CLOSE THE... Read more
Published 5 months ago by liam
O DEAR
Couldn't play this one as I got a virus warning.I had read good reports on this so I thought I would give it a try but it was not to be. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. W. Moore
Broken Sword 1
I haven't actually completed this game yet and I'm quite new to point and click games such as Broken Sword. It is quite good (and love the old fashioned dialogue! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Karen Miller
Best games I have ever played!
This review is simple... the best games I have ever played!! I can play these over and over and never get bored!! I have nothing bad to say!! I will never get rid of these! Read more
Published 14 months ago by LJ
Does this work on windows 7?
Not really a review, but i have played these games on the PS1 and i loved them so much! Storylines are brilliant and the voice acting is something else! Read more
Published 17 months ago by CypriotGeeza
Adventure
Excellent story line , great adventure that parents can be relaxed with their children playing a comical and adventurours game . Read more
Published 21 months ago by Q
Fantastic! Brings back memories.
When I was younger, my brother used to own the first game of the Broken Sword franchise and I would have a go on it, completing a few levels. Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2010 by M. Hines
Still here
OK! Broken Sword! Who doesn't know the legendary series, but most of all the first one. The adventure game that played a significant role for the creation of a whole new school of... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Vasileios Kiltidis
Broken Sword rules
I'm not one to give long decriptive speeches so I'll just say this...the Broken Sword duo are excellent games. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by Mastergaijin
Great Value
At the price this is selling for it provides excellent value for money. Although not the best graphically by today's standards this is still an excellent game. Read more
Published on 9 April 2009 by I. M. Knight
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