Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

Description

The Smoking Mirror is the sequel to Circle of Blood and the second game in the Broken Sword series. The player alternately controls George Stobbart, the protagonist of the first game, and Nicole Collard, the French journalist he met in the first game and who has since become his girlfriend.

The game is entirely in 2D and gameplay is in typical point-and-click fashion. The player moves the character around using the mouse, examines the environment, talks to other people and collect items stored in an inventory. These items need to be used or combined with other items to solve puzzles.

The game starts with George witnessing the kidnapping of Nicole. This event eventually leads to an investigation into a conspiracy revolving around a forthcoming solar eclipse and the evil Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. The locations visited throughout the game include Paris, Marseille, London, Quaramonte, the jungle, a Caribbean environment and a zombie island. Certain locations from the previous game make a return.

Alternate Titles

• "Сломанный Меч 2: Дымящееся Зеркало " -- Russian spelling
• "Slomannyj Mech 2: Dymjascheesja Zerkalo" -- Russian title
• "Les Boucliers de Quetzalcoatl" -- French title
• "Circle of Blood II" -- Working title
• "BS2" -- Common abbreviation
• "Broken Sword: Las Fuerzas del Mal" -- Spanish title
• "Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror" -- European title
• "Broken Sword II: La Profezia dei Maya" -- Italian title
• "Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror" -- GOG.com release title
• "Baphomets Fluch II: Die Spiegel der Finsternis" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Broken Sword series
• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre

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User Reviews

The second game is twice as good as the first one.	Windows	Black Wolf (37231)
More fluent than the first game, but equally unoriginal	Windows	Unicorn B. Lynx (60371)
Great, but doesn't beat the original	Windows	MAT (35183)
From the Templar Knights to even crazier Mayan prophecies	Windows	Depth Lord (950)
More of the same as the first game, but better	Windows	Grant McLellan (555)
A little on the simple side, but with a brilliant script.	Windows	Vance (97)

The Press Says

PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Sep, 1997		100
Adventure-Treff	Windows	Nov 22, 2003	86 out of 100	86
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Aug 22, 2009	17 out of 20	85
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Sep, 1997	85 out of 100	85
CyberJoy	Windows	Apr 01, 1998	4.2 out of 5	84
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Oct, 1997	84 out of 100	84
GameZebo	Windows	May 15, 2009		80
GameSpot	Windows	Nov 25, 1997	7.9 out of 10	79
Absolute Playstation	PlayStation	Jan, 2000	76 out of 100	76
All Game Guide	Windows	1998		40

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Trivia

When in the abandoned Subway station, after picking up the coin from the vending machine, use the coin on the vending machine. Then pick up the bar of chocolate from the machine and walk to the right to find a ghost. It will disappear when you get close to it, but then walk to the left and a secret exit will appear. Enter to unlock a scene from Beneath a Steel Sky, an earlier game by the same developers.