Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon moves away from the 2D point-and-click concept from the earlier games and features a full 3D world, with a camera that does not rotate, but uses fixed cinematic perspectives…
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is an adventure developed by Revolution Software, released 14 November 2003 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 13.8 hrs to finish.
What Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is an adventure game developed by Revolution Software and released in 2003. It was published by Kalypso Media. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Powerful seismic events are shaking the world. Something sinister is emerging. An Ancient Conspiracy, the Secret of the Templars, and a fiendish source of pure Evil are responsible. The death of a back bedroom computer hacker in Paris is just the beginning of another extraordinary adventure for George Stobbart and Nico Collard. Welcome to the world of Broken Sword.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are drama, fantasy, historical and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 90 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.8 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium3 750MHz or equivalent, 128 MB of RAM and 64 MB. 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 1GB.
What it launched against
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon launched on 14 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Characters
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