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.
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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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