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Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars

GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Genre: adventure game
  2. Release date: 2008
  3. Developer: Mind Factory
  4. Available at: Gamepressure.com servers

Broken Sword is a series of well merited and likable adventure games that got fans so loyal that in 2008 the second installment of the series got an unofficial and free continuation.

The action is set after the events from Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror. The protagonists finds new leads on the remains of the Order of Templars. Armed and dangerous. The Return of the Templars is an tribute to classic point’n’click adventure games, thus players should know what to expect here - decent dialogues, collecting items, solving numerous diversified puzzles that unlock the next stages, and an intriguing story.

HOW WELL DID IT AGE?

Not bad, especially considering the fact that the game is not that old, and has cartoon-like visuals - of course, even on the day of its premiere it might not have looked like a modern game, nonetheless, such style ages very slowly.

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Hubert Sosnowski

Hubert Sosnowski

He joined GRYOnline.pl in 2017, as an author of texts about games and movies. He's currently the head of the film department and the Filmomaniak.pl website. Learned how to write articles while working for the Dzika Banda portal. His texts were published on kawerna.pl, film.onet.pl, zwierciadlo.pl, and in the Polish Playboy. Has published stories in the monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror magazine, as well as in the first volume of the Antologii Wolsung. Lives for "middle cinema" and meaty entertainment, but he won't despise any experiment or Fast and Furious. In games, looks for a good story. Loves Baldur's Gate 2, but when he sees Unreal Tournament, Doom, or a good race game, the inner child wakes up. In love with sheds and thrash metal. Since 2012, has been playing and creating live action role-playing, both within the framework of the Bialystok Larp Club Zywia, and commercial ventures in the style of Witcher School.

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