Even though the third and fourth entry into the series received some negative reviews due to the change to 3D, the stories still manage to entertain and the praise goes to the writers for making the series so interesting. From the cobbles on the ground to the wallpaper and layouts of the buildings, everything has such an intricacy to it. Revisiting the game now, it’s clear the visuals have aged, but it still holds up in detail and design. Thanks to a PlayStation demo disc, I was able to walk around the streets of gay Paris and experience a world so beautifully crafted, finding clues and meeting characters that had lots of depth and intrigue. I remember being introduced to Revolution when I played Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars at the age of 13 and up until that point I’d seen nothing as engrossing before. Although the older games in the collection haven’t been remastered or improved, they still show in abundance, all the hard work Revolution has put in over the last 25 years. Not only do you get the entire Broken Sword saga in this collection, you’ll also receive debut title Lure of the Temptress, cyberpunk adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, and their first 3D game, In Cold Blood. The Broken Sword games set precedence in storytelling, with their point-and-click mechanics putting great emphasis on player choice and involvement, but there are other great titles in Revolution’s colourful legacy definitely worth playing. The blood was removed in the Director’s Cut.Revolution has made some of the best adventure games over the last 25 years, so it seems only fitting that the York-based developers celebrate all of their hard work with a wonderful collection featuring everything you could ever want. They even thought of putting a gun in Rosso’s hand.ĭirectly after Eklund, Rosso has to kick the bucket. In the original, Eklund is being stabbed, in the DC shot by Rosso. The blood from his face was removed here. Otherwise.įitzgerald is being run over by a sports car and obducted in Lochmarne. Once more, one has to act quickly and throw the torch at the black powder. On trying to escape the templar hideout, Guido blocks the exist. Again, this happens automatically in the Director’s Cut. George is getting shot if he doesn’t pull the emergency break quickly enough. If you are stupid enough to go there, you are being grilled and fall of the roof. There is an electricity box on the train’s roof. In the Director’s Cut, George automatically jumps aside. After pressing the stone lion’s tooth, you have to jump away quickly, otherwise George is being squashed. George finds a secret well in the Villa de Vasconcellos. Right answers also lead to getting shot, but George can quickly use jump down the cliff. Wrong answers lead to George getting shot. Khan asks George about what he found in the cave. Again, only the original version allows the player to disturb the meeting. A meeting of the templars is taking place here. The Director’s Cut proceeds automatically so you don’t get busted.īelow the church court in the Montefaucon, George discovers a subterranean secret entrance. There is only little time to evade the two in the original. There is a tripod to steal in the museum, but Guido and Flap join in. The director’s cut has made it impossible to leave the hotel with the map. Shame that Guido and Flip are waiting just outside the hotel for somebody to come out with the map. George finds an old templar map in the hotel Ubu which he has to retrieve from there. The censored Director’s Cut(PC-version) was compared to the uncensored original (PSX-version). The Director's Cut is also included on the Wii-Version. The rest of the censoring is strange: The blood was removed only at two spots, for the rest of the game, the Director’s Cut is as "bloody" (e.g. The first part of the report therefore deals with George's eight ways of dying. Whatever you do to make George kick the bucket, it just won't work any more. The Director's Cut has made it impossible to die. The PC-version of the Director’s Cut is, at the time, only available via download. conversations were shortened, some objects are not accessible any more, a search help was added etc., but those things are irrelevant for this report. A lot of things have been changed altogether, e.g. It now contains playable scenes with Nico. The Director’s Cut was released on Nintendo DS and Wii in 2009. The dialogue is funny, the story engaging and the game itself has cult status. He meets the reporter Nico at that, and the two reveal a Templar conspiracy.īroken Sword is a classical point-and-plick-adventure. George joins the investigation because a man was killed by that explosion. An explosion in the café, initiated by a clown, destroys his plans, though. George Stobbart really only wanted to go on a holiday and relaxedly enjoy the day in a café in Paris.
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