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Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director's Cut is an enhanced remake and director's cut of the classic 1996 point-and-click adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. Unlike in the…

83 19 March 2009

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut is an adventure developed by Revolution Software, released 19 March 2009 on Wii, Android, iOS and Linux. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.

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What Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut is

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by Revolution Software and released in 2009. It was published by Kalypso Media. It is available on Wii, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director's Cut is a 2009 enhanced remake and director's cut of the classic 1996 point-and-click adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars developed by Revolution Software. It was released for Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Android and Linux spanning 2009 to 2012. The player assumes the roles of George Stobbart and Nicole Collard, who was a pivotal but not a playable character in the original version.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 57 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 12 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium, 64 Mb of RAM and Any video card with 64 Mb video RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut launched on 19 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War and Guitar Hero: Metallica. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War, Guitar Hero: Metallica.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut — frequently asked questions

When did Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut come out?
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut was released on 19 March 2009 for Wii, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut?
At minimum, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut needs Pentium, 64 Mb of RAM, Any video card with 64 Mb video RAM graphics, 1.5 GB of storage.
How long does it take to beat Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut?
The main story of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut takes around 12 hrs, or 12.7 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut?
The PC version needs about 1.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1.5 GB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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