In 1996, a time when games were coming into their own and were beginning to take shape a small English company by the name of revolution released a two dimensional game "broken sword". An adventure game that was based on the journeys of the character George Stobbart, but this was no ordinary adventure game. Stylized graphics, beautiful sound, an incredible atmosphere and an aura surrounded the game; it dragged the player into a world that was full of danger and full of surprise. Shortly after, the sequel was released comprising of the same atmosphere same characters and the same incredible experience. Everything was peaches and cream for the great revolution. But then a drought came, for three years a web of semi successful games were released but none made as big an impact than the classic broken sword one and two. Fans moved back to the two games and demanded the next chapter and their wishes were answered in 2000.

Revolution announced that the third broken sword was in the works, the news sends the adventure gaming community into a frenzy, but then a bombshell was dropped when the decision to move the soon to be third sword into three dimensions. People (due to past experiences) were split about the move. Eventually when the third game was released, opinions on the game varied, whilst on the more positive side, many people enjoyed the game. But there was no doubting that this wasn't the broken sword we all grew to love, action, crate pulling, stealth missions all existed in this third chapter and dragged the broken sword experience dramatically down. The aura, the feeling and the incredible experience were gone. Revolution had tried to give us broken sword and in this writer's opinion had failed

Then in late 2003 early 2004 a small glimmer of hope was cast upon the broken sword fans. On the revolution forum (revolution.co.uk) a small hint from Tony Warriner was dropped in one of the forums topics, stating that a possibility of a fourth broken sword may eventually happen and in the original format of 2d. Members of the site were excited and thrilled of the new prospect, I myself one of them. So what do we have to go on, nothing except a paragraph from Mr. Warriner but that is enough to give us hope, that some day revolution will start work on the greatest game ever made, that revolution go back to their roots, that they don't worry about all the wiz bang graphics and that revolution bring back the broken sword we loved.