George Stobbart is the is the most fortuneless and unconventional person on Earth. The undesirable hero who gets to save the world. Broken Sword series has reached 2006, too. With a new engine, new characters and, of course, a new adventure, The Angel of Death is here.
From the very beginning you get to know George Stobbart into a very wetly situation: it rains cats and dogs, he has got no pocket money, the firm he works at is insolvent and the day has just begun.
George Stobbart goes to work and his partner tells him that he's expected by a very attractive woman. The very nice, silly blonde is the reason The Angel of Death can be bought from specialized shops. Anne Marie, that's her name has a lot of problems and she's begging Stobbart to help her. From now on you gain the control of the a game which challenges you with one of best adventure The Broken Sword series.
In 2002, somewhere on E3 somebody announced:" the age of point & click is over. It's time for 3D adventure games". It's about to begin a stormy campaign to promote the new game developed by Revolution Software. The world of console..
Too many words and less truth. Instead of super mega game they promised, I've got a total 3D adventure game with numerous arcade and a mediocre level. The control was a total disaster (I mean the version for PC), Camera was annoying and the puzzles were very difficult. As you have probably noticed, The angel of Death wasn't improved very much. The interface is back to normal too, placing the pointer upper screen reveals the inventory.
We have arcade, time trial and as logical can be puzzles. It is not a new Myst and is not intended to. A weak point is that the character can hop half a meter but can't jump one meter high, stupid, isn't it? . Items can be mixed but such situations are very rare so you can forget it. Some puzzles are easy but there is always a script which confuses you.
Something new is a small PDA tool which allows you to get into somebody else computer to borrow information. That somebody else is the same Andre Lobineau. There is a too long part you have to read and that's boring and frustrating for a common person. To get to the information you have to do a "hack" in order to connect to the device. This means solving a small arcade puzzle which asks you to arrange objects in a certain order. Nothing difficult, you'll see.
