Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

aka: BS2, Baphomets Fluch II: Die Spiegel der Finsternis, Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror, Broken Sword II: La Profezia dei Maya, Broken Sword II: Las Fuerzas del Mal, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, Circle of Blood II, Les Chevaliers de Baphomet II: Les Boucliers de Quetzalcoatl, Slomannyj Mech 2: Dymjascheesja Zerkalo
Moby ID: 1133
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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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  • Сломанный Меч 2: Дымящееся Зеркало - Russian spelling
  • 断剑2 - Chinese spelling

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Average score: 80% (based on 48 ratings)

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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 172 ratings with 7 reviews)

Broken Sword 2

The Good
Broken Sword 2 features superior graphics and sound fit for an animated movie by Don Bluth. Beyond the amazing, late 1990s visual and audio features, the game offers an enjoyable, point n' click, adventure game storyline. While the game's script may not be as funny as Monkey Island or Disc World, it's some of funniest stuff I heard in an adventure game in a long time.

The Bad
My complaints with the Broken Sword 2 mainly fall on its linear game play. Exploration in the game is limited to what is needed to complete a specific task or puzzle. You rarely have the option to backtrack in the game and the final puzzle in the game feels anti-climatic. Game play aside, I did notice a few, glitches on 'Zombie Island' where failure to complete certain puzzles in the proper order may force you to restart the game or load a saved game.


The Bottom Line
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a great graphic adventure game from the late 1990s. Fans of the genre, especially games that have some humor in them, will enjoy the ride, but may end up feeling a bit hungry for more, once the game is completed.

Windows · by ETJB (428) · 2010

From the Templar Knights to even crazier Mayan prophecies

The Good
What first caught my attention was the first puzzle, a great beginning for an adventure game. The gameplay made a good improvement that some missed playing BS1, when you move your cursor over a hotspot the game displays the name of the object or person. You can also play with Nico too in BS2. The graphics, similar to BS1 but with some technical improvements, were a good surprise too. There are a lot of animated cut-scenes giving the game a cartoon feeling. The music is composed again by Barringhton Pheloung, something good because the music from the first installment was amazing.

The Bad
Maybe too similar to BS1 but with just some improvements. The two wheel puzzle near the end was a bit annoying as it drove you away from the climax of the situation.

The Bottom Line
This game wasn't a big success (or at least not as BS1 was) maybe because as the back cover says, it was prohibited in South America (for some reasons that you will see when you play the game), a shame, as not being able to sell a game in a huge territory as South America is a great loss, and could have gained some more benefits. Anyway a great game, with tons of well-thought puzzles and a cinematic feel on it. Another guess is that it could have been more, it looks just like an add-on to the first game...

Windows · by Depth Lord (934) · 2004

More of the same as the first game, but better

The Good
The control method from Broken Sword 1 has been kept, so it is still easy to play, and the addition to play as Nico provides a nice aternative to playing as George now and then. Revolution know how to create adventure games, and this is no exception, in fact it even rivals the adventure games by Lucasarts!

The Bad
The only thing bad about the game was it's ending, unlike in Broken Sword 1 you could not do anything once you reached the final part of the game, which is a bit of a let down.

The Bottom Line
A good alternative to the Lucasarts adventure games and more proof that a sequel can be as good as the original

Windows · by Grant McLellan (584) · 2001

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  • An easter egg in the subway station references Beneath a Steel Sky, an earlier game by the same developers. More information can be found in the tips & tricks section
  • If you watch carefully during the intro in Professor Oubier's house you can see a portrait of what looks like the Spanish villa from Circle of Blood.
  • When the dog falls into the water in Marseilles, a melody from the known nursery song "Oh where, oh where is my little dog gone?" is heard.

Awards

  • PC Player (Germany)
    • Issue 01/1998 - Best Adventure in 1997

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Game added March 25, 2000. Last modified March 27, 2024.