Broken Sword 5 Serpent's Curse

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If you've played all the others and you're a fan of the series should you buy it?
Well for £15.19 for the 1st part, and the 2nd part coming later for free, my answer is buy it. I've seen some people quabbling over the price, seriously £15 it's nothing. If you're new to the series you won't like the game as you won't understand what the fuss is all about, especially with textures and how the game looks and the pace of the game. For me its a revivial of an era of gaming which dies a long time ago.

Without revealing too much in the game, I'm about 35% in to the game,
There's been once occassion where I haven't looked properly and missed something that hung be back for hours. The graphics are great reverting back to the hand drawn like the originals, I have concerns in that the audio levels for the voice acting is a little rough in sound quality and sometimes too loud then quiet. Another concern is that the older broken swords if you put the mouse to the edge of the screen it would then bring up more places to walk, but it seems everything is concentrated more on the background that you can see, (hard to explain but just feels like it's more restricted and compacted down.)

It's too early to give a full opinion of the game so far, some puzzles lacked the cleverness of say broken sword 1/2. But when you're stuck for a few hours and then you work it out, that ''ooooooh you ****** thats why'' ! then you smile and crack on with the game.
 
Steam sale 50% off its now £9.49 have just bought series 1 to 3 for £4.99 think I will wait till its 75% off before buying Broken sword 5.
 
I play it at some point loved the first game - I remember the days when Goats were not the greatest thing on the planet but a royal pain in the ass :)
 
I don't find this as good as the others for some reason. Also, I don't like how they have a Spanish actor pretending to be Russian (sounds terrible), and
there is a scene in London which is utterly laughable in how they've taken liberty with the geography of the city.
 
Got it yesterday in the steam sale, not played it yet ended up playing HL2 again, and need to finish LA Noire. Point click gaming was the 2nd game I ever got, way way back in the DOS days so this makes me very happy.
 
Do these games need to be played in order to understand what's going on?

Nah, different story in every game pretty much. I think the only thing you won't know if you don't play the others is how Nico and George got working together.
 
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