User Rating: 7.2 | Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon PC
By jwells | Review Date:
This game is only OK for an adventure game. The story, to me, seemed stilted. George, for example, is faced with death and destruction at all times and maintains a flat affect that would make that little girl in the Adam's family proud. Nico is mostly along as a sidekick, and in some areas is nothing more than a pretty person for George to talk to. In fact, both George and I seem to prefer the blond pycho-killer. At least she had some life in her. OK, I have read in another review that controls are not the place to innovate. I read it in a review of the game Gothic. My trouble is that in Gothic I actually became fond of the controls, and wish more games of its nature would adopt something like it. On the other hand, the weird control scheme of Broken Sword I never grew to like, and found to be an annoyance all the way to the end of the game. For games like Gothic, innovate; for games like Broken Sword, please do not. The puzzles ranged from simple (the pushing boxes thing became a little played) to ridiculously hard (the wine bottles). There were some really weird inventory ones. In general they were good and well integrated into the environment. I play adventure games for two reasons: the characters and the story. This game is a little weak on both, which is why it gets only a mediocre rating for me. Others can speak about the graphics (which I didn't think were that great). If you are a very serious adventure fan (like I am) this is worth buying and playing through, just to help keep the genre alive. If you are only a passing adventure fan, don't buy this, it might make you not buy any more adventure games down the road...

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