Description

Circle of Blood is the first part in the Broken Sword series. It is a third-person point-and-click adventure entirely in 2D. The player controls George Stobbart, an American tourist spending his autumn vacation in Paris. He barely escapes a bombing of a café and decides to investigate the clues left behind by the killer. This eventually leads him to a mystery dating back to the legend of the Knights Templar.

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. George gets help from Nicole Collard, a French journalist.

The story has been divided into eleven chapters and takes place in locations such as Paris, Ireland, Syria, Spain and Scotland.

Alternate Titles

  • "Сломанный Меч: Тень Тамплиеров " -- Russian spelling
  • "Slomannyj Mech: Ten' Tamplierov" -- Russian title
  • "Les Chevaliers de Baphomet" -- French title
  • "BS1" -- Common abbreviation
  • "Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars" -- US GBA/PSX title
  • "Broken Sword: La leyenda de los Templarios" -- Spanish title
  • "Broken Sword: Il Segreto dei Templari" -- Italian title
  • "Baphomets Fluch" -- German title

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Merchant Title Platform Price  
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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Game Boy Advance $4.07  
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars PlayStation $9.97  
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User Reviews

An extremely well-executed adventure for the Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Advance Ruben van der Leun (11)
A strangely ordinary adventure Windows Sam Jeffreys Bronze Star Contributing Member (3561)
Learn about the Templars while searching for the café bomber Windows Black Wolf (37244)
Mediocre in every way Windows Unicorn Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (72406)
The great game that might have been. Windows PCGamer77 Bronze Star Contributing Member (3026)
Jones!? You've got some nerve... Windows MAT Bronze Star Contributing Member (36838)
Shadow of the Templars is best described as a "diet coke" of the Adventure genre, only with much better aftertaste. Windows Gonchi (3546)
one fine adventure game... and it's not from lucasarts ! Windows Xa4 (257)
One of the last true adventures of the 90s Windows Depth Lord (950)
Absolutely Wonderful!!! Windows Sylven (8)

The Press Says

PC Games Windows Dec, 1996 A 100
Adventure Lantern DOS Mar, 2006 95 out of 100 95
Coming Soon Magazine Windows Nov, 1996 93 out of 100 93
Game Over Online Game Boy Advance Jun 06, 2002 92 out of 100 92
GameSpot Windows Oct 03, 1996 9.2 out of 10 92
Playback Windows 2006 9 out of 10 90
PC Player (Denmark) Windows 1996 88 out of 100 88
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Windows Dec, 1996 83 out of 100 83
PC Player (Germany) DOS Sep, 1996 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Yiya DOS Aug 20, 2005 11 out of 15 73

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Trivia

The Game Boy Advance version does not use the Virtual Theatre game engine.


This entry was contributed by Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9905), Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (126942), Kabushi (51988), Ummagumma (73), Scaryfun (5838), Grant McLellan (554) and MAT Bronze Star Contributing Member (36838)
 

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