Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered (2009)
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered is a 2009 point-and-click video game made by Revolution Software.
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered revisits the 1997 sequel with animated facial expressions, cleaner audio, and a new interface designed for touch and modern screens. George and Nico are on holiday in Marseille when a voodoo-related kidnapping puts them back on the trail of an ancient Mayan artefact. The remaster adds context-sensitive hints and a game diary that tracks clues as you gather them, smoothing the path without removing the puzzle challenge. The original's globe-trotting pulp adventure energy, from French back alleys to Caribbean jungles, comes through sharper than ever.
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What is Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered about?
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered revisits the 1997 sequel with animated facial expressions, cleaner audio, and a new interface designed for touch and modern screens. George and Nico are on holiday in Marseille when a voodoo-related kidnapping puts them back on the trail of an ancient Mayan artefact. The remaster adds context-sensitive hints and a game diary that tracks clues as you gather them, smoothing the path without removing the puzzle challenge. The original's globe-trotting pulp adventure energy, from French back alleys to Caribbean jungles, comes through sharper than ever.
When was Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered released?
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered was released on 2 December 2009.
Who made Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered?
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered was made by Revolution Software.
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The Mayan conspiracy and tropical locations share DNA with Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, which also builds its adventure around Caribbean settings and buried ancient power. One is a cartoon romp, the other a full open world, but both treat history as a treasure hunt.
Adventures that keep moving to a new country every act
The Smoking Mirror drags George and Nico from a Marseille voodoo plot to a Caribbean jungle chasing a Mayan artifact, and that same restless map-hopping drives One Piece's entire pirate hunt and Largo Winch's globe-trotting business intrigue. Fullmetal Alchemist sends its siblings chasing a legendary macguffin across an entire country, and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War keeps its conspiracy moving through just as many borders.
Ordinary people who end up solving the case the police can't
George Stobbart is just an American tourist who stumbles into a conspiracy nobody in charge believes, and that same setup runs through The Hidden Staircase's Nancy Drew and One of Us Is Next's amateur teen sleuths. Mr. Mercedes gives Holly Gibney the same arc, a bookstore clerk turned investigator, and The Mentalist's Patrick Jane solves cases as a gifted civilian rather than a cop.