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archived preview: Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
Adventure fans have been tracking the progress of Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon for many months, but Revolution Software’s ambitious project has now officially been premiered to the gaming press at the ECTS games show in London. As Charles Cecil set forth in a presentation, Broken Sword 3 presents an important evolution from the traditional point-and-click adventure game. His confidence makes you believe that he's really onto something revolutionary. Broken Sword 3 is pioneering a new generation of streamlined 3D adventures that – if successful – will send point-and-click down the same road as the text parser interface. Charles started the press conference with a statement that will surely cause for much controversy among adventure game traditionalists. “The point-and-click adventure is dead,” he exclaimed. “No two ways about it. It is no more. However, long live the adventure. As a genre the adventure is extremely healthy and probably has as much – if not more – potential than any other genre.” With the current drought in adventure games, the future of the genre has been a lively topic on many adventure-related message boards. Some believe the genre has to stay the same. Others believe it has to change. Perhaps paradoxically, Broken Sword 3 does both. Next: the problem with point-and-click adventures.
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