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 tried when it was given on ps plus like 8 years ago for the same reason. I promise you, it's not worth your time
This site is toxic for anything besides lurking. I've been coming here for years and this is probably my first comment in five years.
I'm pretty sure that they down-voted you because you said that the game "looks interesting". Didn't you know, there's no positivity allowed on N4G... particularly when talking about anything related to Xbox.
It's sad but, true. It's not just Xbox related. I said "Ghost wire looks interesting. I hope it's good" and got a bunch of downvoted. Smh
I’m sorry but this is pathetically bad. I defend Xbox sometimes but what is this crap??? Lol
“Just get Gamepass and stfu” - my sentiments exactly. What’s the point of game for gold now.
Can't have GWG looking good when they are pushing game pass. Eventually people will get tired of the garbage games and switch
The only good thing about Games with Gold is you own the games forever even if you discontinue paying for live. You don't have to worry about it being cycled out like you do with GP. You actually own it.
Plain and simple this is how they push people into Gamepass ... one turd after another on GWG !!
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
Exactly just let it die and save some money for Game Pass deals.
It shocks me every month that they can still find games that I have never heard of before.
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.