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Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

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Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

Oct 17, 1997

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3.97 average rating based on 393 ratings

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Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands, while Nicole Collard is also a playable character in selected portions of the game. The player controls George's movements and can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. He also have to collect objects that can be used with either other … More
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands, while Nicole Collard is also a playable character in selected portions of the game. The player controls George's movements and can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. He also have to collect objects that can be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery or with other people in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. By right-clicking on an object, the player gets a description and clues. The player character's death is possible if he makes a wrong decision. Less
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
Crave Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Series
Broken Sword
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation
Genres
Adventure, Point-and-click, Puzzle
Themes
Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Thriller
Steam
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Release Dates
Oct 17, 1997 (North_America)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 17, 1997 (Europe)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Nov 14, 1997 (Europe)
PlayStation
Nov 30, 1999 (North_America)
PlayStation
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User Stats
1732
In Collection
71
Wish Listed
8
Playing
976
Backlogged
How Long Is Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror?
Main + extras: 7.3 hours
100% completion: 10.6 hours
Total completions: 3
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agurczuk
agurczuk gave Mar 4, 2019
agurczuk gave Mar 4, 2019
agurczuk's review of Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

The first two Broken Sword games are like Indiana Jones movies for me - classic and great.

Broken Sword 2 Smoking Mirror (remastered) is a great point and click adventure game. Great story, great humour, beautiful graphics, cool game play. It's all there and I'm happy to say that this game is not affected by it's age at all.

The story in The Smoking Mirror evolves around a Mayan prophecy and the end of the world scheme. Sure, it's not as good as the templars story line from the first game but it's still pretty good and will lunch you on a world tour before you can conclude the story.

Graphics are great with varied locations all around the world. Everything is voice acted which is a nice thing and for the most part the choice of voices is spot on.

Compared to the first one - the puzzles do tend to be a little more constraint. There's no traveling between different locations to solve a puzzle - once you're on a spot the story will not progress further until you solve the puzzle. Personally I like that as I've never been super good with those games but it makes …

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The first two Broken Sword games are like Indiana Jones movies for me - classic and great.

Broken Sword 2 Smoking Mirror (remastered) is a great point and click adventure game. Great story, great humour, beautiful graphics, cool game play. It's all there and I'm happy to say that this game is not affected by it's age at all.

The story in The Smoking Mirror evolves around a Mayan prophecy and the end of the world scheme. Sure, it's not as good as the templars story line from the first game but it's still pretty good and will lunch you on a world tour before you can conclude the story.

Graphics are great with varied locations all around the world. Everything is voice acted which is a nice thing and for the most part the choice of voices is spot on.

Compared to the first one - the puzzles do tend to be a little more constraint. There's no traveling between different locations to solve a puzzle - once you're on a spot the story will not progress further until you solve the puzzle. Personally I like that as I've never been super good with those games but it makes the game feel a bit more linear. The puzzles do make sense for the most part though there were times when it dependent too much on pushing certain conversations. Luckily a really nice hint system is present which at first tries to push you in certain direction before giving you the solution.

Overall enjoyed the game almost as much as the first one and it's worth definitely picking up if you're into the genre.

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Gunkaloo
Gunkaloo gave Feb 14, 2024
Gunkaloo gave Feb 14, 2024
Very enjoyable and short (good thing) animated game
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version

Very enjoyable and short (good thing) animated game. Same pitfalls as most point-and-click: Pixel hunting and crazy puzzles (2 times to do something.) kept it from 90%.

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Guran
Guran gave Jun 16, 2015
Guran gave Jun 16, 2015
Slighly disappointing sequel

A good game, but the first Broken Sword is better. The humour, excellent graphics and music is still there. But the story is not as good. Anyone who likes old school adventure games will still appreciate it overall. NOTE: The remastered edition does not offer any new story content like the Directors Cut of Broken Sword.

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Sheldipez
Sheldipez updated their status Jan 26, 2022
Sheldipez updated their status Jan 26, 2022

Played through the PS1 emulated version to completion as I have been messing with an emulator that supports RetroAchievements.

It's been ages since I touched the playstation version and to make things worse there was some emulation issues that caused bugs (I had to slow down emulator speed as it was causing timing issues preventing certain puzzle solutions).

Unlike the Director's Cut version of the first Broken Sword (which is not recommended) the remastered version of BS2 is the way to go. So unless you are a masochist there's no reason to touch the console version of this classic.

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