Play Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Online

Summary

Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror feels like stepping into a hand‑drawn cartoon, thanks to its classic‑animation‑style graphics that were penciled, digitally coloured, and then cleaned up by the same artists who worked on the original title. The game runs on Revolution Software’s Virtual Theatre engine, the last one to use that quirky system before the series moved on. Playing as George Stobbart – and occasionally as Nicole – you navigate a point‑and‑click world with a mouse or PlayStation gamepad, right‑clicking objects for descriptions and clues, collecting items, and piecing together conversation trees that can even lead to a sudden death if you choose poorly. The soundtrack, composed by Barrington Pheloung with a closing score by Bob Sekar, adds an orchestral, cinematic layer that matches the humor and serious tone of the story. Though the original received mixed reviews, it sold 750,000 copies by August 2000 and the later remastered edition finally earned the critical praise the series deserved.

Storyline

Six months after the events of *The Shadow of the Templars*, George Stobbart returns to Paris for his father’s funeral and reunites with his friend Nicole Collard. Nicole has been investigating a mysterious Mayan stone and arranges a meeting with archaeologist Professor Oubier, only for the pair to be ambushed by Central Americans; Nicole is kidnapped while George is knocked out and trapped in a burning room. He escapes, contacts Andre Lobineau for help, and rescues Nicole from the Condor Transglobal warehouse in Marseilles, learning that the drug‑smuggling kingpin Karzac is behind the stone’s theft.

The duo travels to Quaramonte City, where the local ruler Presidente Grasiento and his son Raoul are in league with Karzac and are conducting a secret jungle excavation. An attack helicopter strands them, and Nicole is poisoned by a snake, but a missionary helps George find a village shaman who explains that the stone is one of three created by Mayan shamans to imprison the god Tezcatlipoca in a mirror before a solar eclipse ends the fifth Mayan age.

George heads to the Caribbean to recover the second stone from the home of a Spanish pirate, while Nicole journeys to London for the third stone stolen by an English pirate. Oubier attempts to steal the stone, is killed by Karzac, and Nicole escapes with the artifact; she returns to Quaramonte only to find the jungle village burned down.

George had hidden the stones with a dwarf Central American named Titipoco. Nicole rescues Titipoco from a sacrificial rite atop a Mayan pyramid, and the group—now joined by Raoul, who turns against Karzac—navigates traps to reach the chamber where Tezcatlipoca is to be released. Nicole places one stone, Titipoco secures the second, and as the god emerges it kills Karzac; George slots the third stone, sealing Tezcatlipoca back into the mirror just as the eclipse ends. The adventure concludes with the heroes watching the eclipse fade, marking the end of *Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror*’s perilous quest.