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Broken Sword Legend Speaks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the feel-free-to-help-vitalize-my-gaming-as-well dept.

JamesO writes to tell us that VideoGamer.com recently had a chance to sit down and talk to Charles Cecil, managing director of Revolution Software and father of Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series. "when the opportunity to interview the gaming legend presented itself at the launch of Raise the Game, a £450,000 campaign which aims to drive growth and innovation in the UK games industry, we jumped head first at the chance. Read on for news on the next Broken Sword, the possibility of a movie and the state of UK games development. Brace yourself, he pulls no punches ..."

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  1. Beneath a Steel Sky is Free by BarneyL · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who have never played it Beneath a Steel Sky runs on just about anything through ScummVM.
    Even better it is now freeware and you can legally download it from the same site for nothing. Go get it.

    1. Re:Beneath a Steel Sky is Free by kovach · · Score: 1, Informative

      Broken Sword 1 & 2 work on ScummVM too. They are not free yet though, but I bet you can buy them both for under 10 bucks. Played them both, they are quite fun and don't look too shabby either.

  2. Re:Before you call them legendary by Syrente · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was a critically aclaimed Point-and-Click adventure - one of the last before the genre croaked its terrible dying curse. Y'know the one, it's the reason Halo is popular.

    In all fairness you should try playing it... if you liked the Monkey Island series then you'll like Broken Sword. The main character is also a proper American, too. The clever kind. We Brits don't feel the need to portray every American as dumb at every possible opportunity, you know. (insert suspicious eye movement here)

  3. Re:Before you call them legendary by Jason+Earl · · Score: 2, Informative

    apt-get install beneath-a-steel-sky

  4. Re:Before you call them legendary by tao · · Score: 2, Informative

    scummvm has had support for Sam'n'Max for ages. Easiest way to play it is to copy all the files onto your computer and point scummvm at them (start scummvm, select "Add game...", point it at the directory where the samnmax.000 file is located (if I'm not all mistaken, all the files you really need are samnmax.000, samnmax.001, samnmax.c26, and monster.sou). Good luck!