I have bought broken sword 1 and 2, and so far i think they are both really great. i don't prefer one over the other, but i havn't played much of either of them.


which one do you think is best?

Broken Sword 1 is the best for me, great story, acting, puzzles, graphics.

Broken Sword 3 comes next, the story is almost as good as the first, acting is top-notch (I especially liked the playful sparring between the main characters), graphics are fresh but retain the warm, comics-like style; the puzzles are somewhat tiresome, though (wtf with the abundance of those annoying crate puzzles?!).

Broken Sword 2 is still great, but is trying too hard to be like the first. I didn't really like the re-drawn Nico and the new voice actress, the story felt a little forced sometimes, some locations were flatly reused from the first game.

Broken Sword 4 is at the bottom. Still not a bad game, the puzzles are good, but the graphics are very uninspired and it's a shame that the character of Nico is so under-used.

Just my two cents.

Broken Sword 1 is to me, by far the best. Most interesting story, great acting, etc.

Broken Sword 2 follows, more of the same really, just not as good as the first.

Broken Sword 4 follows for me, returning to the P&C, more adventure than puzzle really brought the series back on track for me.

Broken Sword 3 is the worst for me, the amount of crate puzzles is stupid as well as the story not being as entertaining or appealing to me as past installments.

I can't wait for the new one to come out, I am sure it will be a throwback to the first two.

Definitely BS1. The best of the series.

BS 1 is the best for me.

I liked the first one better. Even though the second one is very well made, It seems as if they really pushed the hardest when making the first one. In my opinion it has nicer backgrounds, better animations, nicer music and -quite subjectively- better story.

I like all of them. Each has very interesting and clever story with cool characters but George playing sokoban isn't all that cool in the third game. Even though it's fairly easy, it seems very pointless, it just slows you down. Fourth game on the other hand comes with a bunch of very stupid retro puzzles with weird item combinations nonsense and the ending of the story seems very rushed.
So the first two games might be relatively better but every title of the series is very much worth playing because of the story and characters.

Definitely the 1st one. The second part sometimes loses pace, and the 3rd one - the story is quite interesting, but too many crate-moving parts.

I see that most of people agree with that.

But what about BS4? I haven't finished it yet and I've been trying to play it for months! I'm stuck every 3 puzzles... Have to finish it before 5 comes out! :>

1 and 2 are great. 3 begins the trend downward. 4 is almost a joke the only reason the game is worth playing is because George is in it Nico kind just shows up near the end. A good analogy to BS 4 is Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull need I say more. Cell shaded and hand painted backgrounds are the way to go, expressive characters and evil clowns is what this new game needs.

Recently did a marathon of all games in the series in preparation for BS5, and I've got to say this:

BS1: Shadow of the Templars is still a fantastic adventure game I'd recommend everyone to experience for themselves. Definitely the strongest in the whole series.

The Director's Cut.. felt a little odd to me. While it's great that they've made the original game more accessible for just about everyone, to the point where one can just skip the whole "puzzle" aspect of the game without having to google the walkthrough in order to experience just the story, they also did a lot of wrong things:

Removing deaths? Cutting George's remarks on things? A comic-book artstyle (although from a great comic artist) in the portraits/added Nico's sidestory that clashes badly with the whole animated look of the original game? Really?

I've also found Nico's story.. insignificant, lets say. But at least it makes her actually doing something in the plot, and not just sitting in the apartment the whole time, which is nice.

BS2: The Smoking Mirror is a great sequel, even if I felt that it was way shorter and easier than the original. Definitely would recommend to play it for those who loved the first game. Although its setting does oddly stick out in compare to the rest of the series, making it some sort of a filler in the middle of the main arc (and I think BS5 will do the just same.. UNLESS the templars are involved, again).

By the way, the remastered version is actually great, in comparison to the first's Director's Cut. It does nothing wrong with the core game at all, while improving on it.

BS3: The Sleeping Dragon was actually the first game in the series I've played, and I still love it. Love it more than BS2. Didn't mind the fact that it was in 3D because it still had really great art-direction behind it, as well as a stellar cinematic cutscenes that just made the plot much more epic. It will sound blasphemous to point'n'click fans, but I actually prefer the control method of this game. To me, it's much more immersive than just pointing and clicking. And I think stealth segments (hello, In Cold Blood!) were also done pretty well.

But I agree, those crate puzzles are just lame as all hell, almost as if they couldn't come up with far more, better puzzles for George to solve. Switch to the "new generation" 3D DOES NOT constitute the implementation those kind of "puzzles". As well as QTE's.

BS4: The Angel of Death was the one I've never completed before because my first impressions were not that great to begin with, and after reading reviews I knew this is the worst one in the series. The whole game feels like a lazy, incomplete mess to begin with, as well as some "plot points" (in a bed, with a non-nun) just made me like George even less. (Although Saxon's fake german accent was hilarious)

And those scripting bugs, oh, I HATED THOSE (To illustrate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DulUopi9Gk ). Almost made me write a support topic in this forum. To think that I had to reinstall the game five, FIVE times in order to beat it, just to see the awfully rushed ending.. Yeah, I would recommend to stay clear out of it even to a die hard fan of the series/adventure game fans.

BS5 has me in hopes that it'll be just as good as the first three games. Crossing fingers that the kickstarter reward of elonging the game in two episodes didn't take a toll on the plot..

Broken Sword 2 is my favorite. I adored that game as a kid and always have since. The setting was amazing, the whole Mayan tilt, I loved it. One of the most exciting games I ever played, being stuck for ages and then finally cracking it. I was only young so I found things difficult that I probably wouldn't now, I can't really comment on the difficulty of the first two games because I've know all the solutions for so many years. But yeah, BS2 for me.

BS1 comes very close, the original, not the directors cut. I remember being stuck on the catacombs bit for months and months and months; when you have to smash the wall with the manhole tool. I remember the thrill of getting past that god damn goat too; just very special memories for me. They are my two favorite games ever.

BS3 was surprisingly good. I played through it this week, my first attempt since release. Yes, it was very easy, but it was gripping and I enjoyed the plot. I have a fair few criticisms of it; most of the locations were bland and forgettable, there were hardly any proper conversations with anyone other than Nico, it didn't revel in the history of it all as much as BS1, there were too many box puzzles, it was too short, there were no 'open' areas like Quaramonte City or Syria... but! I really really really enjoyed every minute of it and finished it more or less in one sitting. One thing I would say; the extras were very interesting, they went into detail about the Voynich Manuscript and the fact behind the ley lines theory, I just felt if all that had been worked into the actual game it would have been a lot more compelling a story.

BS4 was the worst. Some of the puzzles were nice and harked back to the good old days but some were ludicrously difficult, the hacking puzzles for instance. Only a bona-fide genius could work out the Flr De Lys puzzle or the crucifix puzzle at the end, there's no place for those puzzles in Broken Sword.

If I was a critic and had to score them, i'd say:

BS 1 - 98%
BS 2 - 99%
BS 3 - 85%
BS 4 - 65%

Yep, I love those first two games.
Oh and I forgot to mention... the end of BS4 is terrible... it ends so abruptly. It doesn't even have proper credits! They didn't roll for me, it was just blank. Even the extras were miles worse than BS3.