Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror (Windows)

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Description

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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Trailer

Alternate Titles

• "断剑2" -- Chinese spelling
• "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

Part of the Following Groups

• Broken Sword series
• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre
• Setting: City - London
• Setting: City - Paris

User Reviews

From the Templar Knights to even crazier Mayan prophecies	Depth Lord (1003)
A little on the simple side, but with a brilliant script.	Vance (101)
The second game is twice as good as the first one.	Katakis | カタキス (39490)
Great, but doesn't beat the original	MAT (186091)
Rushed sequel, fails to live up to the first game	Infernos (17268)
Broken Sword 2	ETJB (450)
More of the same as the first game, but better	Grant McLellan (623)	unrated

Critic Reviews

PC Player (Germany)	Sep, 1997		100
Aventura y Cía	Aug 14, 2001		100
Coming Soon Magazine	Oct, 1997	94 out of 100	94
Playback	2006	9.33 out of 10	93
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 1997	84 out of 100	84
GameTrip.net	Jul 10, 2008	8 out of 10	80
GameZebo	May 15, 2009		80
GameSpot	Nov 25, 1997	7.9 out of 10	79
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Mar, 1998		70
Just Adventure	Sep, 1999	C	50

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Plot question: what happened to general Grasiento?	1	Nowhere Girl (3783) Oct 23, 2016
How to access the Scumm VM menu?	5	Pseudo_Intellectual (60344) Sep 24, 2016

Trivia

References

• 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

Related Web Sites

• Broken Sword 2 on Windows XP (As Inferno explains, Smoking Mirror can be played on Windows XP systems.)
• Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - FAQs & Guides (Various walkthroughs for this game written by different people)
• Hints for Broken Sword 2 (These hints by Erik Gos will help you solve the game.)
• Revolution's Walkthrough (Full solution on the developer's web site.)
• ScummVM (Get "Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror", as well as many other adventure games, to run on modern systems by using ScummVM, a legal and free program.)
• Walkthrough by Malcolm Schmidt (posted on Gameboomers.com)
• Wikipedia: Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (Article in the open encyclopedia)