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A playthrough of THQ's 1998 graphic-adventure game for the Sony PlayStation, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, released in 1996 on the PC as Circle of Blood (“Broken Sword“ was added to the European version's title), was an extremely popular point-and-click graphic adventure when it was released. It featured a well-written story that often felt like a diet version of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code (or more directly, Cecil's The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail) thanks to its obsession with the Crusades and the Knights Templar, it looked fantastic with it's high-resolution hand painted backgrounds and rotoscoped character animations, and it sounded just as good things to it's well-acted voice over and classy musical score. It was pretty easy compared to other graphic adventures, but it raised the bar in so many ways that it didn't really matter too much - it still had its moments. Who remembers that stupid damned goat puz
