Secret Files: Tunguska (PC)

As a great fan of the point and click adventure genre of PC games I was very excited to receive Secret Files: Tunguska as a present. The game installed very quickly and with great ease on Windows XP and I started playing immediately. The game itself is designed beautifully, the backgrounds are stunning as are the various cutscenes featured throughout. The characters were also well designed and moved around realistically on the screen. The story follows the main characters, Nina and Max as they try and track down Ninas father who mysteriously disappeared one night at work. Their adventure leads them to various countries (Russia, Cuba and Ireland to ...  Read the complete review

The release of “Broken Sword 3” in 2003 seems to have sparked something of a renaissance in “point and click” adventure games, a genre that only a few years previously had seemed to have been killed off by game designers as being unforgivably old-fashioned. Point and click adventures have been around since the start of video gaming, and despite games getting progressively more violent and action-orientated over time, they have managed to survive and are still around now (albeit looking rather better than they used to). I used to be a big fan of old 2D adventure games such as the “Monkey Island” series, and personally I welcome the fact that new adventure titles are being ...  Read the complete review

BACKGROUND I bought this game for myself, to give me something to do during the day, whilst I’m off work with my back. It’s taken me a while to finish because I’ve had to limit the amount of time I can play it in one session. I bought it at Play.com for £12.99 PRODUCT Tunguska – Secret Files is produced by Deep Silver, which is a division of Koch Media GmbH, Austria. The game is a PC DVD ROM and has a certificate of 12. There are no violent scenes, but there is the occasional use of language, hence the age certificate. The minimum system requirements to run this game are; Windows ...  Read the complete review