Broken Sworduses a basic point-and-click interface, where moving a pointer around various onscreen hot spots allows different actions to be performed. Pointer movement is rather slow, and the use of a PlayStation mouse is highly recommended. Also sluggish is the load time when moving from scene to scene, which disrupts the game's pacing a bit.

Those willing to have patience will findBroken Swordto be a decent adventure game. Crisp graphics, smooth animation, and respectable voice acting help further the game's quirky plot, although the dialogue is downright hammy at times.--Joe Hon

Pros:

• Crisp graphics, smooth animation, respectable voice acting
• Good mystery game for would-be sleuths

• Slow pointer movement
• Annoying load time between scenes