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| THE 2003 E3 JUST ADVENTURE AWARDS! Presented by Randy Sluganski |
BROKEN SWORD: THE SLEEPING DRAGON
Developer: Revolution
Publisher: The Adventure Company
Platform: Windows, PS2
Projected Release Date: Fall 2003
We’ve saved the best for last! With so many excellent and promising products this year, it was difficult to choose only one, but if there is a single game that best exemplifies the quality and bravado of the adventure genre it is Revolution’s Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon.
George and Nico have never looked better. The graphics and character animation are outstanding and the much dreaded environmental puzzles have been seamlessly woven into the game play.
It has been almost a year since Charles Cecil, the head of Revolution, spouted his now infamous declaration that point-and-click adventures are dead. Adventure purists raised their pitchforks in attack mode towards this dapper gentleman who surely must have cahones larger than Big Ben to make such a heretical statement at a time when the genre was just again finding its legs. The uproar that followed left a bloody trail across the internet as one short-sighted adventure site after another declared that they would refuse to cover a game they had yet to even demo.
Now all fears have been put to rest thanks to the superb craftsmanship of Mr. Cecil and his talented team at Revolution. As a parting note, we grasped the moment at the E3 to ask Mr. Cecil the following:
“Considering the bad press and negative publicity that followed in the wake of your ‘point-and-click is dead’ statement, have you ever wished you either had not made or could retract the statement?”
Mr. Cecil’s simple, but elegant response:
“No.”