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Nicole Collard and Broken Sword 4
By Georg Moog
Submitted on 2006-05-26

George and Nico are the two most important characters of the Broken Sword series. While George takes the leading part in every game, the role of Nico changed dramatically during the different games: in “Shadow of the Templars” George meets her very early in the game, and she provides him with a lot of important background information. Her apartment becomes an important location where George returns after important events to plan the next steps of his adventure. But the freelance journalist also shows that she is able to deal with her enemies. In the next game, “The Smoking Mirror”, Nico gets kidnapped and is the “damsel in distress” for the first part of the game. But later the player is able to control Nicole at several occasions in the game: She even explores London all by herself while George is on a tropical island. “The Sleeping Dragon” brought the importance of the journalist again to a new level – George and Nico started the game thousands of miles away from each other and the player controlled both of them by turn. They followed different clues in different locations, but at last they met each other in an old theater in Paris. But after that you still had to control Nico several times.

The third sequel to Broken Sword, “The Angel of Death” will be released in September. And everyone wonders: Where’s Nico? Screenshots and concept art just show Anna Maria, a woman George meets in New York and who is going to be his new arm candy. But what about Nico? We know from recent games that relationships of George and Nicole aren’t supposed to last very long. But does that mean that Nico is totally absent from the fourth part of the series? Why should Revolution do something like that? Don’t be afraid, there seems to be hope: A wallpaper released a few months ago shows George and Anna Maria being chased by a gangster. A bullet from his pistol hits a picture of a attractive woman with green eyes and short, black hair. This woman – could she be Nico? In the trailer which was released at the E3 you can see a figure in the background – but only for a short moment. This figure looks somewhat like the mysterious woman in the picture… Another interesting fact: developers of “The Angel of Death” said in an interview that there will be another character you will be able to play. But Anna Maria isn’t supposed to be playable, but just to be a supporting character! Charles Cecil, the spiritual father of Broken Sword also hinted that Nico will return for “Broken Sword 4”.

Nico probably won’t be there in “Broken Sword 4” right from the beginning, but I assume that we can expect a stylish “surprise” appearance of her after one or two hours of playing. And then Nico is going to kick Anna Maria’s butt! ;)

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