Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game developed for the PlayStation, featuring a third-person perspective and a point-and-click interface. Players control protagonist George Stobbart, alongside Nicole Collard, as they explore environments, engage in dialogue, and solve puzzles through item collection and interaction with characters. The game emphasizes critical decision making, which can affect the character's survival.
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands, while Nicole Collard is also a playable character in selected portions of the game.
The player controls George's movements and can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. He also have to collect objects that can be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery or with other people in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. By right-clicking on an object, the player gets a description and clues. The player character's death is possible if he makes a wrong decision.