Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent's Curse free Mac Game

The player will have the option to choose between the classic and the modern inventory, the former being in the fashion of the first two Broken Sword games, and the latter in the fashion of their 2009 and 2010 Broken Sword remakes. The player will also have the option of switching the hint system or hotspot highlights on or off.

Plot synopsis

The game opens in 1937 in Catalonia, Spain, when a painting is seized by a man and his fascist army. The game then jumps to modern day Paris, whereupon George and Nico meet by chance at an exhibition at a Parisian art gallery, where they witness a man disguised as a pizza courier shooting the gallery owner, Henri, and stealing the seemingly worthless painting – la Maledicció. Meanwhile, a priest at the exhibition, Father Simeon, claims that the painting is cursed. George investigates Vera Security, and finds the weapon used in Henri's murder, and Nico traces ownership of the painting. Comparing notes, they discover that Medovsky is both the owner of the painting and of Vera and now lives in London. By phoning Waterloo Motors, a motor-bike repair shop in London, he learns that his driver is a regular customer.

Nico is also met by Marquès, just as he enters the apartment. Marquès shows them a medallion with an Ouroboros, the symbol of Gnostics, a branch of Christianity persecuted in France by the Vatican Church in the 13th century. Back in the 13th century they fled France after being ruthlessly persecuted by the Vatican. Marquès explains that Fascist soldiers attacked his home and that his father died trying to save the painting.

George and Nico head to London to confront the Russian. After convincing Medovsky's bodyguard, Shears that they are from the insurance company, George and Nico are led into Medovsky's study. Medovsky denies any involvement in the robbery and murder, only interested in claiming the insurance, but George explains that he needs proof of ownership, at which point Shears interrupts to inform Medovsky of the presence of a Mr. Hobbs. During the recreation of the crime by the incompetent Inspector Navoe, they meet Langham, an Interpol officer with art crimes, who warns them against pursuing Medovsky further. Investigating further, they learn that the whole affair is an insurance scam between Hobbs, Henri, and Medovsky.

George and Nico head to Bijou's apartment, who now admits that she, Henri and Hobbs were part of Medovsky's scam; Medovsky had commissioned Hobbs to make a forgery – he planned to sell both on the black market. But Hobbs had actually made two forgeries – and passed one back to Medovsky. They were going to run away together with the original and sell to the Gnostics.

Travelling to Spain, they discover that the Marquès family home concealed a hidden Gnostic chapel, and piece together the path the Gnostics followed escaping the Languedoc with the Tabula Veratatis, and learn that the Tabula is hidden in a monastery in Montserrat, southern Catalonia. Reaching the monastery, they find the Tabula, along with the corpse of Gehnen, who was trapped with it as he did not have Marquès' medallion. They recover the Tabula, and are ambushed by Langham, who reveals himself as Gehnen's grandson, and plans to finish his work: to slay Jehovah, one of the dual Gods representing Order, and allow the rule of Lucifer, who represents Freedom and self-expression. They follow Langham to the purported Garden of Eden in Iraq after convincing Shears to betray Medovsky. Reaching Langham in the middle of his ritual, Nico blows out a wall of the cavern. The white light that streams out of the crack disrupts Langham's ritual, and he is obliterated. Having stopped the ritual, Nico gives the Tabula to Eva in custody, to become the leader of the Gnostics, and she returns to Catalonia. George and Nico almost kiss but are interrupted by Shears' barbecue - the goat.