Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror (1997)

Revolution Software

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation

3.97 from 392 ratings

1742 members have it in their collection · 8 playing now · 982 backlogged · 71 wish listed

How long? · with extras 7h · 100% 11h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

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 … Read 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. Read less
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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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agurczuk

Review agurczuk 5/5 · Mar 4, 2019

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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Guran

Review Guran 3/5 · 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.