NEED TO KNOW
RELEASED 1996
DEVELOPER Revolution Software
PUBLISHER Virgin Interactive
LINK revolution.co.uk
Broken Sword is a game that knows every great mystery needs a killer premise to hook you in. It begins with an American tourist on vacation in France, sipping coffee outside a Parisian cafe. Then a guy dressed as a clown blows it up. Most people would fly home and try to forget about it, but George Stobbart is not most people: he’s an adventure game protagonist. You know what those guys are like. Vacation be damned, he wants to know who tried to kill him – and he’s going to find out by picking up a bunch of random objects and solving puzzles with them.
Developed by UK studio Revolution Software and released in 1996, is one of the best point-and-click adventure games ever made. It’s beautiful to look at. The puzzles are great. The music is sublime. The characters are memorable. The story is full of twists and turns.
