Charles Cecil of Revolution Software talks about 'Broken Sword 5' and adventure gaming's return to mainstream popularity.
Revolution Software's Charles Cecil told us many stories of the ups and downs the Broken Sword series has faced over the years.
From GI.biz: "A beautiful, innovative, fulfilling, challenging, satisfying, mysterious game. Not only a game, but a story, an experience. It got a lot of components right and was one of the best games back then and it still is. It's worth saying that the series is still very much alive, as the fifth instalment was released in 2014 and there are rumours of (and a lot of fans craving for) the sixth game. Yes, you may have guessed it (or read in the title) - we are talking about Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. But let's talk about why such an opinion would form in the first place.
My brother and I started playing PC games right before 2000 and very quickly got drawn into the world of adventures. Of course, we had played NES games like Super Mario, Battle City and Adventure Island. However, adventure games were something else: they had a story, they had amazing art, voice acting, beautiful animation and music.
One of us got our hands on a demo of Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror and couldn't stop talking about it. Our screen time was limited and it was summer, so we spent a lot of time outside and out of town, but the demo left such a big impression on a teenage brain that a lot of that time was spent analysing the puzzles, animation, story and other aspects of that amazing demo (no wonder demos had a revival in the last decade -- it's a very good way to attract players to buy the full game!)."
On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, join in an epic adventure in Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse, and speed run to a tight soundtrack in Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, use your wits and the water to fight your enemies in Hydrophobia, and test your strategic skills in Band of Bugs.
I’m sorry but this is pathetically bad. I defend Xbox sometimes but what is this crap??? Lol
Another terrible month.
They should either improve it or just kill it already and tell people GamePass is where you go to get games via subscription.
GWG hasn't been a factor since GP has been available, it's almost insulting now
Just cancel it at this point, don't think anyone will even care, saves ms money and everyone basically uses gamepass now anyways
we are still getting broken swords every now and then, we got a remaster of grim fandango. now all i need is a full collection remake of the monkey island series. obviously 3/4 and 5 as one and two have been done.
I wish all the Broken Sword games were on PS4. Always been interested in playing the series.
Adventure games? RPGs have been telling better stories since NES days.
I will put my foot down on this one, there has never been a sheety video game that has came in the same stratosphere of the best Hollywood movies.
However, there are many video games that easily beat the many crappy movies made.