SECRET FILES: TUNGUSKA

'''Secret Files: Tunguska''' is a 2006 adventure game by Fusionsphere Systems and Animation Arts. Released in the last quarter of 2006, it is a classic aventure game and it had positive reviews, mostly for inspired graphics and interesting storyline. A conversion to Nintendo's Wii and DS platforms was announced in June 2007.

Contents

Gameplay

Plot

Sequel

Easter eggs and trivia

Wii/DS Conversion

References

External links

Gameplay

The game, like many 'classic' adventure games, is viewed from a third-person perspective and uses a classic point and click mechanism. The game features a 'snoop key' tool, which, when clicked on or when spacebar is pressed, highlights all interactible objects in the screen and assists in finding small, easily overlooked objects.

Plot

The game is centred around the Tunguska event and explores its speculative reasons. The main protagonist is a Russian girl living in Berlin, Nina Kalenkov, whose role is to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of her father, who was in a special way involved in a secret scientific project concerning the Tunguska region in Siberia. At times, the role of the player-controlled character switches to Max Gruber, who is a german scientist, Nina's father's colleague.

Sequel

Secret Files 2 has been announced.

Easter eggs and trivia

★ At a certain point in the game, one can spot the Jamiroquai album, ''Emergency on Planet Earth'' sitting on a desk in an office. [1]

★ At some point, the main character, Nina, when asked to carry a bucket of water whose handle has come off, makes light of adventure gaming clichés and says:

Without the handle it's hard to carry. some colleagues of mine would say: 'that's not possible'. 'that won't work'. 'you can't do it like that.

Wii/DS Conversion

On the 13th June 2007, Deep Silver announced it would be bringing the game to both of Nintendo's next-generation platforms. In an interview with Eurogamer, a spokesman said: "We chose to do it for a couple of reasons. Firstly to explore the control methods of the Wii and DS, which we find very interesting, and secondly because we feel the platforms deserve this kind of game."
The games will feature the same storyline but with controls fitting both systems (i.e. motion-controls for Wii and stylus-control for DS). The portable version should launch before Christmas but the Wii game won't be seen until at least early 2008.^[1]

References

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External links

★ Official website

★ Adventure Gamers review

★ Review (in English) of the German release

★ English Demo (linked via publishers' forum)

★ German Demo

★ Playfuls.com Review

★ 2404.org Review