Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (Windows)

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Description

Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars is a fan made sequel to continue the storyline after the first two games in the Broken Sword adventure series, and ties up the events leading up to the third game. Like the first two games, a 2d view is used with point-and-click gameplay instead of the full 3d from the later games.

The series' protagonist George Stobbart leaves Nico for one year because of an important trip to the USA. During that time, his grandfather dies of cancer. While in the USA, he receives a telegram from France detailing the death of Nico. Bewildered, he hastily travels back to France only to discover Nico is still alive and not surprised about the telegram at all. The unexpected reunion does not please her and she asks him to leave immediately. While at Cafe della Chandelle Verte in Paris trying to put everything together, George receives an alarming message from French inspector André Lobineau about Nico. It may turn out the Neo-Templars still exist.

Familiar locations all over the world are mixed with new settings and characters. George, Nico and André all return, but new ones such as Christophe Brai and English historian Jimmy McLaugh also play an important role. Movement is done with the mouse, while the cursor changes automatically to an available action when hovering over a hotspot. Items are stored in an inventory and dialogues trees are shown as icons representing items or characters. Players will control George and Nico intermittently throughout the story. It is also possible to die in the game.

Although it is a tribute to the original series, the production values are high with entirely new environments, characters, rendered cut-scenes, sounds and a storyline that match the original games. Some people involved with the original game have contributed and there is full German (with a few of the voices of the original games) and English voice acting

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Alternate Titles

• "Baphomets Fluch 2.5: Die Rückkehr der Tempelritter" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Broken Sword series
• Fangames
• Scripting language: Lua
• Setting: City - Paris
• Setting: Country - France

User Reviews

A Must Play for every adventure gamer!

Jeanne (76503)

Critic Reviews

Adventurespiele	Oct 23, 2008		100
Adventure-Treff	Sep 28, 2008		100
FreeHry.cz	May 16, 2010	98 out of 100	98
Freegame.cz	Oct 20, 2008	97 out of 100	97
Adventure Corner	Sep 29, 2008		80
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 2008	12 out of 15	80
Just Adventure	Feb 25, 2009	B	75
Adventurearchiv	Oct 23, 2008	71 out of 100	71

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Trivia

Development

The following tools were used to create the game: Anti-Grain Geometry, FMOD Sound System, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora, Lua, PhysicsFS, Pluto and TinyXML.

Lithuania tourism

Šarūnas Ledas, the main person responsible for the game's graphics, is Lithuanian and if you look closely at the advertising column close to Café de la Chandelle Verte, a poster with the words "Visit Lithuania" can be seen.

Related Web Sites

• Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (official game website)
• Broken Sword 2.5 Walkthrough (by Glyn Parnell, posted on gamershell.com)
• Broken Sword 2.5 Walkthrough (posted on Adventurespel.nl (Dutch))
• Broken Sword 2.5 Walkthrough (on Gameboomers.com)