Comments on: Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Review

Originally a native PC title with a Playstation port also available, Astraware's Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars has now been downsized with remarkable accuracy to the Palm OS. In a nutshell, the game's plot centers around George Stobbart, an American tourist on vacation in Paris. His quiet sojourn is interrupted by an explosion and subsequent death in a cafe. George begins nosing around the crime scene and quickly finds himself swept into a world of intrigue and cloak and dagger conspiracies. George's globe-hopping quest takes him to several locales throughout Europe and beyond as he seeks to track down an ancient manuscript written by the Knights Templar. Read on for the full review.

 ScummVM

richardgaywood @ 9/27/2006 6:09:28 AM #

Of course, if you want to play classic point-and-click adventures on your Palm, then http://www.scummvm.org should be your destination. All the old Lucasarts games, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit the Road, and Day of the Tentacle (surely three of the greatest such games of all time) can be played under it, in full talkie mode if you can find the CD version (or, cough, download it from an abandonware site).

You can get started right now with Beneath A Steel Sky or Broken Sword 1, both freely and legally available from the ScummVM site. The graphics look great at 480x320 on my T3.. in fact, I'd be surprised if the Broken Sword port carried out by Astraware didn't involve ScummVM somewhere in it's software.

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