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Secret Files: Tunguska, The

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Game Info

Publisher: DreamCatcher Interactive / Deep Silver

Developer: Fusionsphere Systems

Genre(s): Adventure

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: May 23, 2008

Summary

(Currently available in the UK/EU only) On the 30th of June 1908, an explosion with the destructive power of 2,000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the Tunguska region in central Siberia, felling more than 6,000 square metres of pine forest. The explosion could be heard within a radius of 1,000km. Witnesses saw an oblong object, glowing in a blueish-white light, fall from the sky. A 20km high pillar of light was followed by a mushroom-shaped black cloud. The three following nights were so bright all over Europe that you could read a newspaper outside without additional light. In California, on the other hand, they noted a continuing reduction of sun light. Up to this day it is still not clear what really triggered the Tunguska catastrophe.

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What The Critics Said

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Play.tm

It delivers a solid gaming experience that will at no point blow you away but will chug along nicely for about ten hours, and so will probably deliver your moneys worth.

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Official Nintendo Magazine UK

Progress can be slow - laborious, even - but you very rarely feel cheated. [June 2008, p.82]

n-Revolution Magazine UK

It's good, standard adventuring. [Issue#22, p.80]

VideoGamer

If you can forgive its failings you'll unearth a good Da Vinci Code-style detective story that should keep you going for a weekend at the very least.

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DarkZero

Much of the story is kept until the end, with the rest mostly speculation from characters as to what is really going on, forcing you to play through to get more dirt on the mystery as it builds up.

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NGamer UK

The genre's as old as the hills, and moust pointer to remote pointer is hardly a great leap. [July 2008, p.59]

AceGamez

There are problems, but fans of the genre will be able to look past these imperfections and see that this is a far superior game to Agatha Christie. But even so, this is still an average game, especially when compared to the best of the Wii library.

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Eurogamer

For the majority of Wii owners, I suspect this will prove simply too dry and convoluted to really catch on.

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Jolt Online Gaming UK

While it's true that Secret Files: Tunguska does get one or two brownie points for being in what’s currently a very sparsely populated genre on the Wii, the fact that it’s so middling in just about every respect hardly justifies a purchase.

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games(TM)

Dedicated genre fans, meanwhile, will find that the concessions in the gameplay – pre-highlighted hot spots and rumble hints – are both insulting to their intelligence and at odds with the entire point of the adventure genre. [June 2008, p.123]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Martin S gave it an8:
Played it on my computer when it first came out. Bought the Wii version, just to see if its any different. It´s not - and thats actually good. Excellent story, very humorous and entertaining and most important: logical from the beginning. No stupid trial and error combination orgies, everything works as it is supposed to.

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