High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a point-and-click adventure game released to the PC on November 5, 1996. It was released on the PlayStation in December that same year and on the Game Boy Advance March 19, 2002. It has also been ported to the Mobile phone, and re-released to the Wii, PC, Mac OS X and Nintendo DS as a director`s cut. According to Charles Cecil, it sold around a 1,000,000 copies in the mid-90`s. It was followed by Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror.