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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- 80 highly detailed and atmospheric pre-rendered backgrounds
- 25 cinema adequate 3D figures ("skeletal-animation")
- Real-time light and shadow effects on the 3D figures
- Atmospheric weather effects (e.g. rain and snow)
- Cinematic full screen videos for intro and cut-scenes
- Perspective correct integration of the 3D characters
- Scrollable backgrounds across several screens
- Proprietary DirectX9 Kombination Engine
- "Facial animation" for showing emotion and voice acting
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The Tunguska Project is designed as a classic Point & Click Adventure with an intuitive interface. It draws its strength from the symbiosis of atmospheric graphics, logical puzzles and a gripping story. In the role of the keen Russian beauty Irina and the somewhat geeky bookworm Max, the player is taken into a world of myths and mystic, but also into real intrigues about money and power.
The kind and quality of the puzzles, of which some are only solvable in cooperation of both characters, are oriented to classics like Day of the tentacle. Atmosphere and story telling can be compared with titles like Broken Sword 1 & 2 and Runaway, whereas under presentation issues parallels are to find in Black Mirror.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Just finished this game and overall I found it a pretty enjoyable experience. Main plus points are the excellent interface (one day all adventures will have a hotspot finder!) and the impressive graphics. It is also extremely good value for money at £12.99.
Only negatives are that I felt the story became somewhat incoherent towards the end and the omnipresent American voices started to grate after a while, especially when coming out of supposedly Irish and Russian characters! This disappointing voice-acting has been (justifiably) well-documented elsewhere, with the occasional dramatic change in volume within the same sentence being particularly difficult to forgive.
However, on the whole, Secret Files: Tunguska is a very welcome return to traditional 3rd-person point-and-click adventure gaming, which I'm sure will be improved upon when Secret Files 2 appears in 2008...
P.S. I recommend downloading the improved alternate ending which also has a 'Cinema' feature whereby you can view all of the game's cutscenes once again.
Only negatives are that I felt the story became somewhat incoherent towards the end and the omnipresent American voices started to grate after a while, especially when coming out of supposedly Irish and Russian characters! This disappointing voice-acting has been (justifiably) well-documented elsewhere, with the occasional dramatic change in volume within the same sentence being particularly difficult to forgive.
However, on the whole, Secret Files: Tunguska is a very welcome return to traditional 3rd-person point-and-click adventure gaming, which I'm sure will be improved upon when Secret Files 2 appears in 2008...
P.S. I recommend downloading the improved alternate ending which also has a 'Cinema' feature whereby you can view all of the game's cutscenes once again.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game is a true point-and-click adventure. The graphics are good and the technical quality is really outstanding. Puzzles abound and nearly all are inventory based. The game has a help system which shows all interactive hotspots, so you always know if you have picked up everything available. The story is fancyful, but keeps the player interested. The weakspot for me was the American voice dubbing, but there has yet to be a perfect game. There are a minimum of 25 hours of gaming in there. All in all well worth the asking price.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Games like this are becoming increasingly rare on the market. It will always be hard to make them original, and Tunguska is no different. As far as graphics go, it is not hard to render good backgrounds on stagnant scenes in games like these, so the graphics should be good, and Tunguska does this reasonably well. The sound is atmospheric, but the voice overs are wooden and don't do the game justice.
That said, these are not the reasons you buy a game like this. You want puzzles, not too fiendish, not too simple. This delivers. Despite the fact some seem illogical at first, if you have a little think about it, there is always some logic, it just requires a little lateral thinking. But there is a slight glitch in the game that makes these things easier to the casual gamer. You can easily discover which objects you can 'combine' simply by picking it up and 'hovering' it over everything in sight. If the mouse icon goes green, you can use them together. This has he unfortunate drawback that, when you are stuck in the game, all you have to do is hover the objects over each other and you will come across the solution, by luck rather than skill.
The game is also short. It did seem to end rather suddenly and I was quite disappointed. A few things were left unexplained, especially the people in black capes, and what eventually happened to Oleg and co. At times the plot was tired and predictable, and you will find yourself clicking through some of the dull talking scenes.
But, that said, if you are looking for a challenge, and you haven't played a game like this for a while you will be in your element. The gripes I have concentrated may seem quite major, but in fact they are not, but it was a shame it did not last a bit loner. I think, in all, this took me about 10 hours start to finish with no help.
There is another problem with games like this, as my friend discovered. There are so many walkthroughs available on the internet it does take some restraint especially when you come up against a difficult puzzle.
Oh, and as for the outtakes at the end....poor to say the least. Why bother with things like that on a computer game? Not remotely funny.
That said, these are not the reasons you buy a game like this. You want puzzles, not too fiendish, not too simple. This delivers. Despite the fact some seem illogical at first, if you have a little think about it, there is always some logic, it just requires a little lateral thinking. But there is a slight glitch in the game that makes these things easier to the casual gamer. You can easily discover which objects you can 'combine' simply by picking it up and 'hovering' it over everything in sight. If the mouse icon goes green, you can use them together. This has he unfortunate drawback that, when you are stuck in the game, all you have to do is hover the objects over each other and you will come across the solution, by luck rather than skill.
The game is also short. It did seem to end rather suddenly and I was quite disappointed. A few things were left unexplained, especially the people in black capes, and what eventually happened to Oleg and co. At times the plot was tired and predictable, and you will find yourself clicking through some of the dull talking scenes.
But, that said, if you are looking for a challenge, and you haven't played a game like this for a while you will be in your element. The gripes I have concentrated may seem quite major, but in fact they are not, but it was a shame it did not last a bit loner. I think, in all, this took me about 10 hours start to finish with no help.
There is another problem with games like this, as my friend discovered. There are so many walkthroughs available on the internet it does take some restraint especially when you come up against a difficult puzzle.
Oh, and as for the outtakes at the end....poor to say the least. Why bother with things like that on a computer game? Not remotely funny.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Fun but challenging!
i had fun playing this game with my Dad. However we often had to resort to walkthroughs on the internet due to slightly weird solutions. Read more
Published 9 months ago by The Ginger Ninja!
A Good Game
I only bought it because it came as a package with something I wanted but I really enjoyed the story and the game play.
Published 16 months ago by GreyPacker
Faulty Goods???
I bought this game with 2 others to be played on a PC running XP, which covered the game specifications. It loaded no problem and played easily until I got stuck. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by J. N. Brown
Can't play it.
I've tried the game on three PCs that meet the specifications and it won't run on any of them, just get an error message.
Avoid.
Avoid.
Published on 17 Feb 2010 by T. Hunt
a lot of collecting
The graphics are excellent. I likedthe way the story progressed. Enough locations to make it interesting. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2009 by Mrs. A. Lund
Fun
This is a good game. Its a real point and click game which I like ^^ It makes a nice cjange from fighting zombies when you want a lighter pace and also a good little brain... Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2009 by elle
It might be a `Broken Sword' wannabe, but it grows on you
I am a lifelong adventure / point-and-click games fan, but this game actually passed me by on release. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by J. Gathergood
Some guys tried to make a quick buck
This is a not-so-much-fun computer game.
The idea is nice. The story could have been fun. But unfortunately the idea to find a disappeared father and scientist turns into a... Read more
The idea is nice. The story could have been fun. But unfortunately the idea to find a disappeared father and scientist turns into a... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2009 by J. O. LANGE
could have been great
The graphics are good, the story starts out pretty good too. The voice acting however ruined the game for me, so much so that i almost didn't finish it. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2008 by Lars
Highly Recommended Point N Click
Secret files: Tunguska is a thoroughly enjoyable point and click adventure, along the lines of the Broken Sword series, but not so cartoony. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2008 by Helenreddjedet
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