Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
A number 1 game inside the series was freed in 1996, promulgated by Virgin Interactive Entertainment worldwide. George Stobbart is an U.s. holidaymaker around holiday in Paris in the autumn. A story opens by owning George's quietly coffee at the coffee bar impolitely interrupted per explosion of the bomb implanted by the human dressed higher as a clown. He sets off investigation a explosion &, step by step, he & photo-journalist Nicole ("Nico") Collard come drawn into a earth-trotting escapade involving conspiracies, cults & slaying, entirely revolving around the Knights Templar.

Despite a demise & cults a game occurs as lightsome & amusive game, by having high-quality h&-drawn animation and graphics. the game features a musical score composed by Barrington Pheloung, and the cast of voice actors led by Rolf Saxon as George Stobbart.

a game wwhen a critical & commercial profits, & is typically in todays world cited as the better game in the Broken steel series.

A game wwhen freed as Circle of Blood (America), Baphomets Fluch (Germany), Les Chevaliers de Baphomet (France) & La leyenda first state los Templarios (Spain) as much as the world.

Ports of a game were freed on the Sony PlayStation & Game Son Advance platforms, however the latter is cited as a lesser version of the game. a GBA port experienced a bug that manufactured completing the game impossible.

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
the 2nd game inside the series, freed within 1997, opens using George Stobbart witnessing the snatch of his today girlfriend Nicole Collard, followed by existence attached to the chair in a burning home by using a fatal spider escaped. From either on this text follows an additional exciting globetrotting adventure, this period involving an evil Mayan god and a conspiracy revolving as much as the forthcoming Eclipse.

Again a music is composed by Barrington Pheloung and Rolf Saxon returns to lead the cast, sustaining the different actress swimming Nico Collard. Graphics come of the equivalent high standard seen in the number 1 game, by owning two or three pinch to the engine to include smoke results so in.

A game wequally typically described as "rushed" citing reasons like an graceless plot line & linear gameplay (no freedom of movement from either either location to location, however from 1 a second fallowing certain tasks come completed). Yet, a game was the critical & commercial profits, however in a little shell than the games prequel.

Discharged when Les Boucliers de Quetzacoatl (France), Baphomets Fluch II: Die Spiegel five hundred Finsternis (Germany), & Broken Sword: Las Fuerzas del Mal (Spain). A game was known as Broken Sword II: A Smoking Mirror in all English speaking countries exceptA United States, in which it was retitled Broken Sword: A Smoking Mirror.

The port of Broken Sword Two was freed for the Sony PlayStation platform.

Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
George & Nico link to in the third Broken Sword game, freed inside October 2003 by THQ (Europe) and The Adventure Company (USA). This instance a game is fully 3D, unlike them last games which are then extra traditional 2nd Point and Click games. A Knights Templar return in another globetrotting adventure, taking a protagonists to Glastonbury, Paris, Cairo, Prague and the Congo.

the game has been extremely criticised by fans & critics, the bit of for the introduction of 3d graphics, & others for a far-implausible & gauche plot line, & from either either others for a similar linear swimming models from Broken Sword II.

Rolf Saxon leads the cast, reprising his role when George, & Sarah Crook will require on the role of Nicole Collard.

It wwhen freed as Baphomets Fluch Three: 500 schlafende Drache (Germany), Les Chevaliers de Baphomet: Le manuscrit de Voynich (France), Broken Sword: El sueño del dragón (Spain), and Broken Sword: Il sonno del drago (Italy).

Ports of Broken Sword: A Sleeping Dragon were freed on a Microsoft Xbox & Sony PlayStation Two platforms, nonetheless, the PlayStation Two version might sole exist as uncovered inside Europe.

Broken Sword 4 (Working Title)

In 17th August 2005, a 4th game in the series was announced by THQ and Revolution Software. Super little of a story has been revealed and so far, otherwise the fact that it features George falling smitten by using a mysterious woman, globe health organization disappears leading to George uncovering an additional ancient plot which may put the entire world within danger. Despite this recently love interest, Nico may likewise go to in the game, although it's non clear whenever she'll become the playable character. Broken Sword Four might over again feature 3D graphics however it has been hinted that a gameplay may differ from either Broken Sword: A Sleeping Dragon. Therefore far, Broken Sword Four has just been announced for PC by having an potential release date of Summer 2006 (Northern Hemisphere).

Tech info
Broken Br& One and Two apply an enhanced version of Revolution's around-home Virtual Theatre engine. When these games were originally produced for Windows, these are okay, conceivable to play the children in the kind of Operating Systems applying ScummVM. Broken Sword Three is according to an engine by Renderware.

See Also
George Stobbart Characters from Broken Sword 1