Broken Sword 2.5, capriciously called The Return of the Templars, is a promising and apparently still ongoing fan-project from Germany, that will hopefully recapture the cartoon quality and quirky spirit of the first two Broken Sword games. Obviously, for free, as a) the developers are kind and generous people, and b) they are quite afraid of lawyers.The game, another epic adventure of the not-particularly-bright American George Stobbart, will be a classic point-and-click PC adventure (left click to interact/use/talk, right click to examine) sporting top production values and a splash of humor. Judging by the demo (the 2nd one released no less), background graphics, character animation and music are superb, while the puzzles seem to be coming along nicely too. The voice over is in German -also wisely subtitled in English- and is pretty much okay, as are the few jokes present. All in all a most promising of fanadventures, really.
Better though, trust no gnome and do take a look for yourselves. Follow the link and download the latest (late 2006) Broken Sword 2.5 demo for free. Enjoy.Related @ Gnome's Lair: Monkey Island Stuff (MIS), those fecking text-adventures, Broken Sword 4 demo
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ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much everything summed up in one little smiley.
Thanks for the link Gnome - I am downloading it as we speak!
I loved Broken Sword 2, especially the cabbage guy (we kept saving and replaying that bit just so we could hear him say cabbages again).
Well, guess you'llenjoy this one then... Mind you, it's quite short though. Ah, yes Broken Sword 2... what an outrageous finale!
ReplyDeleteThe first broken sword got on my damn nerves. I got stuck right near the start and just couldn't be asked with it. *lol*
ReplyDeleteWhich brings us to the walkthrough solution. Nice!
ReplyDelete...all these years and they still haven't mended it..... tut.....
ReplyDeleteWhich one would be the one we should mend?
ReplyDeleteWhy the broken sword of course! The soiled sabre! The damaged dagger! The ravaged rapier!
ReplyDeleteThe knackered knife! The scabby scabard! The spoilt spear! The lacerated lance! The stifled stilhetto! The wanky weapon! The...
God I need a drink...
..I though the police arrest that ravaged rapier on the m4 last week.....?
ReplyDeleteROFL @ FK. You need one? Whaddya mean? Haven't you already had enough?
ReplyDeleteAh, poor ravaged rapier. Any news on the scabby scabard Mr. Elderly?
no word on the scabby sabbard but i beleive the police are picking at the pieces as we speak
ReplyDeleteUHm, whose pieces would these be then?
ReplyDeletepicking the pieces of the scabby scabard...
ReplyDeleteerm ....as in picking scabs, what our mommies told us not to do..
well, it was late... and the two brain cells that were awake refused to speak to each other..
I see... Get it all the time really... Damn.
ReplyDeleteIs that similar to broken sword the shadow of the templars!
ReplyDeleteQuite a bit, really.
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