Meet George Stobbart. An American tourist in the wrong place at the wrong time. While sitting outside a cafe in a Parisian side street George notices a clown go in and come out of the cafe and then he disappears. Seconds later....BOOM! The cafe windows shatter and the cafe is blown to bits. Luckily our hero escapes unscathed and after giving his statement to the police he meets with the gorgeous Nico, a french journalist who is covering the story. That's it! George now wants to get to the bottom of this criminal act, and with Nico's contacts he decides to start digging for clues. What's this got to do with a sword that's broken? Well this is no ordinary terrorist attack. It is much deeper and mysterious than that. George's travels take him not only around Paris, but also all around Europe in search of clues to further his investigation. And the further he gets, the more mystical and mysterious the adventure gets.
The game is a point and click adventure with some very nice graphics and animation. There are a lot of brain taxing puzzles to be solved and although some are very obvious, others require the strangest of objects to fulfil certain tasks. George can interact with every character that he meets, some crucial to the development of the story, others just passers-by. Apart from being very nice visually, the sounds not bad either but the thing that hooked me was the sense of humour deployed. Not only is it funny when you converse with other characters, but when George examines objects or tries to use the wrong object he usually comes out with some amusing comment.
Broken Sword is an extremely enjoyable game and will keep you captivated throughout the whole story, but sadly with adventures like this being so linear I doubt if it will ever come out it's box again once complete.
The cartoon like graphics work very well and it looks very similar to the old "Dragon's Lair" arcade game. The attention to detail is excellent and the full cartoon animation sequences at certain points are also very good.
With a specially composed music score by none other than "Barrington Pheloung" (who?) the sound compliments the visuals very nicely and the humorous dialogue makes it that little bit extra special.
I don't usually play adventure games but this was different. It had a captivating storyline, excellent visuals, a nice music score and a good sense of humour. I was actually a little sad when it ended as I really enjoyed playing it. Bring on the the sequel.
