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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.”