Broken Sword: 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 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, Marseilles, London, Quaramonte, the jungle, a Caribbean environment, and a zombie island. Certain locations from the previous game make a return.

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.

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Alternate Titles

"Сломанный Меч 2: Дымящееся Зеркало " -- Russian spelling
"Slomannyj Mech 2: Dymjascheesja Zerkalo" -- Russian title
"Les Chevaliers de Baphomet II: Les Boucliers de Quetzalcoatl" -- French title
"Circle of Blood II" -- Working title
"BS2" -- Common abbreviation
"Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror" -- European title
"Broken Sword II: Las Fuerzas del Mal" -- Spanish 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

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Merchant	Title	Price
	Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror
	Broken Sword 2: Remastered + The Original Game	$5.99
	Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror
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User Reviews

The second game is twice as good as the first one.	B14ck W01f (37398)
More fluent than the first game, but equally unoriginal	Unicorn Lynx (132767)
Great, but doesn't beat the original	MAT (47009)
Broken Sword 2	Edward Brown (228)
From the Templar Knights to even crazier Mayan prophecies	Depth Lord (949)
More of the same as the first game, but better	Grant McLellan (546)	unrated
A little on the simple side, but with a brilliant script.	Vance (98)

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The Press Says

PC Player (Germany)	Sep, 1997		100
Adventurespiele	Jun 07, 2005		100
Adventure Corner	Mar 25, 2008		100
Electric Games	1997	95 out of 100	95
Coming Soon Magazine	Oct, 1997	94 out of 100	94
PC Games (Germany)	Sep, 1997	85 out of 100	85
Svenska PC Gamer	Nov, 1997	85 out of 100	85
CyberJoy	Apr 01, 1998	4.2 out of 5	84
PC Joker	Nov, 1997	82 out of 100	82
Just Adventure	Sep, 1999	C	50