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Imagine an alternate reality where Revolution had not decided in 2003 that point-and-click was dead... Instead of getting Broken Sword 3 as we've come to know it, the result might very well have been Secret Files: Tunguska. It has the two young heroes, the cohorts of secret factions, the mix of realism and supernatural, the patchwork of locations to visit -- even the unexpectedly out-of-place humour surfaces from time to time. Obviously, the situation is actually a bit more complicated, and there is more to say about Secret Files: Tunguska than that, but the comparison is not entirely without merit.
At the heart of the plot is a real historical event: a huge explosion that happened in 1908 in the Tunguska region of Siberia, an explosion far more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb that was felt all over Russia. Most of the witnesses having been killed by the blast, the cause of the explosion remains mysterious: a meteorite, a secret weapon, the crash of an alien spacecraft...? German developers Fusionsphere decided on their explanation (hint: it's probably not the boring, rational one), and decided to build a game around it. It starts in current times with one Vladimir Kalenkov, a Russian scientist now living in Berlin, being visited at work by a mysterious hooded figure, and subsequently disappearing with his office left in shambles. His daughter Nina decides to take the matter into her own hands, and sets on an investigation that will lead her all over the world, including the Tunguska region. She will receive the help of Max Gruber, a scientist who works next to her father's office and decides to lend a hand.
If you're like me, you're probably getting fed up with all the April Ryans, the Kate Walkers, the Zoë Castillos, and all those other outwardly strong, yet inwardly vulnerable young women we've seen so much of lately. Well, the good news is that Nina doesn't have such a personality. The bad news is that hers seems to be limited to a passion for radiators. And this is not only true of the characters: everything in the game feels very archetypal. There's of course nothing fundamentally wrong with that, and many great games have been built around archetypes, but those titles explored and linked them in a way that managed to imbue such archetypes with freshness -- something I feel Secret Files: Tunguska fails to do. Sure, among the large variety of plot elements (from the old wise man in the forest to the evil global corporation) and settings (from sneaking into a military base to finding secret passages in a spooky old castle), there's bound to be a little something (or more) for everyone. Sure, the story remains fairly enjoyable and a reasonable incentive to keep playing. But adding more depth to these elements, giving them a life of their own, would have gone a long way toward not making the game feel like a long string of situations we've seen dozens of times before in previous adventures.
From that moment on, and with the help of one of her father's colleagues, the young Max Gruber, Nina is introduced to a conspiracy between governments and secret organizations, related to the vast and unexplained explosion that took place in 1908 in the Tunguska Region in Russia, which her father was investigating. The journey will take them all around the globe in the search for clues that will eventually reveal lots of secrets as they get closer to Nina's father. Nina is the protagonist, but Max can also be controlled during certain parts.
When Vladimir Kalenkow, a high-ranking scientist looking into the unexplained Tunguska catastrophe from 1908, goes missing, his daughter Nina and his assistant Max are drawn into a conspiracy of epic proportions. Chased across the globe by the Russian intelligence apparatus and a zealous secret society, the two adventurers solve mysteries in Germany, Russia, Cuba, China and even Antarctica. But the more light they shed on the truth, the more they put themselves in danger!
A Russian girl named Nina Kalenkov living in Berlin, whose role is to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of her father, Vladimir Kalenkov, who was involved in a secret scientific project concerning the Tunguska region in Siberia.
The plot of the game revolves around a young woman, Nina Kalenkov, investigating the disappearance of her father who was involved in some kind of secret (ooh spooky) research in the Tunguska region of Russia. The trailer doesn't really do a good job of telling you about that, though.
Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis... the world is on thebrink of disaster. By the time Nina Kalenkow realizes that therecent catastrophes were caused not by nature, but by anunscrupulous secret society known as Puritas Cordis, it is almosttoo late.
While her ex-boyfriend Max, a scientist, witnesses the brutalmethods of Puritas Cordis at the excavation site of an ancientIndonesian temple complex, Nina joins forces with a priest inFrance to investigate the connection between the secret society'ssinister prophesies and the creepy leader of an ancient order. Adramatic race against time begins.
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