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Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

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Game Information

Original Release Date: September 01, 1997

Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation

Involved Companies: Crave Entertainment, Revolution Software, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment

Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure

Summary: Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands, while Nicole Collard is also a playable character in selected portions of the game. The player controls George's movements and can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. He also have to collect objects that can be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery or with other people in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. By right-clicking on an object, the player gets a description and clues. The player character's death is possible if he makes a wrong decision.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).