While Wii owners are waiting for what can only be described as the most interesting release to date (that’s Telltale’s Sam & Max Season 1, in case you were wondering), here’s another truly traditional and properly proper point-and-clicker to show off just how well the average genre offering can work with the Wii Remote: Secret Files: Tunguska. It’s a mystery thriller set in the Tunguska region of Siberia, involving a missing scientist, his daughter and can fairly accurately be described as X-Files in Russia. Yes, intriguing, I know. Oh, and do bother googling “Tunguska”.

As for the game itself, well, Secret Files on the Wii is an almost straight port of the PC game released a couple years ago, meaning that changes from the Windows version have been kept to a minimum, but do include such welcome additions as small rumbling (yes, rumbling) and visual hints, and a slightly improved interface that perfectly fits the Wii. Actually, it feels slightly more polished than the already slick PC version and has even retained the lovely visuals and pretty lush cut-scenes. The plot remains unchanged too and -unfortunately- the same goes for the available puzzles. They are too much of a mixed bag really and not a very original one at that either… Still, a worthy addition to every adventurer’s Wii library.

Posted on June 27th, 2008 by admin