Circle of Blood

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Broken Sword series
• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre

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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 (3021)
Learn about the Templars while searching for the café bomber	Windows	Black Wolf (37274)
Mediocre in every way	Windows	Unicorn B. Lynx (53164)
The great game that might have been.	Windows	PCGamer77 (3051)
Jones!? You've got some nerve...	Windows	MAT (34845)
Shadow of the Templars is best described as a "diet coke" of the Adventure genre, only with much better aftertaste.	Windows	Gonchi (3510)
one fine adventure game... and it's not from lucasarts !	Windows	Xa4 (257)
One of the last true adventures of the 90s	Windows	Depthlord(Es) (950)
Absolutely Wonderful!!!	Windows	Sylven (8)

The Press Says

Adventure Classic Gaming	Windows	Nov 24, 1997	5 out of 5	100
PC Games	DOS	Dec, 1996	A	100
PC Games	Windows	Dec, 1996	A	100
Adventure Lantern	Windows	Mar, 2006	95 out of 100	95
GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Game Boy Advance	Apr 27, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Playback	Windows	2006	9 out of 10	90
GameZone	Game Boy Advance	Mar 27, 2002	8.9 out of 10	89
Jeuxvideo.com	Game Boy Advance	Apr 02, 2002	14 out of 20	70
GameSpot	Game Boy Advance	Mar 28, 2002	7 out of 10	70
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Sep 11, 1997	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

The game's animations and artwork were done by former animators and artists from Bluth Studios, makers of The Secret of NIMH, An American Tale, The Land Before Time, and the Dragon's Lair and Space Ace interactive arcade laser games.