First of all I'm glad that I received it free because I have the old ones. I don't really understand people complaining about the free mouse look, jumping, crouching. These were not in the original games, so I don't miss these. For me this version is perfect to replay the originals with widescreen, good controls, awesome soundtracks. This is nothing more, just making the old ones more enjoyable on newer computers. My only problems are the shared save slots and the censoring. I would be happy to have a similar edition of Wolfenstein3D and Spear of Destiny, but seeing the censored Wolfenstein level I think they are not brave enough to make it.
First found it on a sahreware collection CD in the 90s. Played through the first levels, but never had the full game. It was OK, but nothing special. Not so long ago found it here on sale and I bought it because of the nostalgia. Graphics a bit childish, story is way too simple, but somehow the game is still fun. Maybe because it's user/gamer friendly: no frustrating jumps, no indestructible bosses, good controls. I love it, when I have only 5 minutes to play, I lunch it and complete a level and enjoy it. That's all, simple and fun.
Ok, I wanted to write that this is an impressive RTS, but then happend something that shouldn't. I built my very first AT-AT and to check its power I attacked a falumpaset. Guess what! After one shot, the falumpaset attacked my AT-AT which turned around and started to walk away while the falumpaset was chasing it. Really??? Can you remember the Benny Hill show when everybody was chasing Benny Hill with that typical music? I only missed that music watching this ridiculous event. Best part was when they went through my base and the stormtroopers were standing there and watching this (I think they were laughing like me). Facepalm. So, it's still worth a try, the feeling is true Star Wars feeling, there are lots of buildings and units and developments. Until now I only played the dark side (I cannot understand why would I choose the others, I need AT-ATs and Tie Fighters). Music nice, graphics could be better, but hey, this is a 20 years old game! If you like SW and RTS games, play it!
Unfortunately this game is like all the new adventure games nowdays (for example Lost Horizon or Kathy Rain) way too linear. Pros: + nice graphics + lots of scenes + you cannot die + you cannot stuck Cons: - lame character animation - realy bad and boring dialogues - game is too linear - it's like a mini-series of flash games - too easy, the only difficulty comes from the illogical puzzles There are no real challenges: you got a few scenes and a couple of objects. Just try to combine the items you have with each other and with the hotspots on the scenes. Don't even try to think, most of the soultions don't make any sense. After you finished a chapter, you receive another set of scenes and items, so you can restart the mindless trying again. Just think about Thimbleweed Park, where you have 5 characters, more items than you can count and access almost all the scenes at the same time! And you can solve the puzzles in different orders, no linearity. Now that what I call a real adventure game. Tunguska is just an imitation. Developers tried to put everything into 1 game: aliens, sects, evil millionaire, crazy scientists, traitors, humor, romance, myth, KGB, CIA, russians, all the continents of the Earth. I'm surprised there are no dinosaurs in it... Buy it when it's on sale, never pay full price for this. If you want a good and classic adventure game try Thimbleweed Park or go for some old titles (DOTT, Kyrandia, Monkey Island, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Fate of Atlantis, Simon the sorcerer, etc. gog.com is full with these really great games).
About the graphics: beautiful sceneries and atmosphere, but unfortunately the characters looks quite lame (at least their animation is acceptable). The game is very, very easy. Once you've found all the items and hotspots, then just a few clicks to advance. You have only a few items and scenes at the same time, so even with trial and error method is extremly easy and linear. And this is the biggest problem of this game. Remember Day of the tentacle or Monkey Island 2 or Thimbleweed park (and other classics)? Where you can do a lot of things in the same time in different places? Here you always have to focus on only one task and if you solve it you can go to the next puzzle. Most of the time you're limited to only 1-2 places with a couple of items in your inventory and you just have to combine these. After you're done on one scene the game "resets", you have an empty inventory and a few new places. Like a series of minigames. All in all still a great adventure, but without challenges it's like a speedrun.
I'm dissapointed about this game. Long time ago I already had this title and played it. In my memories it was a quite OK adventure, but now I would say it's annoying and frustrating. The artwork is mostly great, but that's the only positive thing I can say. The animation of the characters are ridiculous, and also Ryan stands in a strange posture. There are some items which are almost impossible to find. It's really boring going over and over on every scene and moving the cursor slowly from left to right from up to down pixel by pixel, just to find an object. And if you think the pixelhunt is just for about 1 or 2 items, I have bad news for you: almost every difficulty comes from these hard to find hotspots. The puzzles are quite simple. You have only a few items at the same time, so it's really not difficult to find out what are they for. Problems come when you know what to do, but don't know how (e.g.: try to use something on the creature instead of Ryan, etc). Also there are some points in the game where you just want to scream and break your monitor in anger, because you keep dying and reloading for 30 minutes, just because the time is too short to find out what you should do or in what order. Buy it when it's discounted and don't expect too much.
