An acceptable effort...
Gameplay:
It's basically built up quite conservatively with stationary camera-angles and so forth. You point where you want the main character to do something, and then they do it. Now, this is all very nice and old-school... but I have to ask: Who came up with some of these puzzles? Some of these puzzles are so outrageous and illogically concieved, that you sometimes wonder if there is a sadistic german programmer sitting out there somewhere thinking "Jaaa... Hahahaha... Now ze hole vorld vill be confused, vile I sit here and tend to my cleverness!" You sometimes feel as though the game is bugged because the solutions to some of the puzzles are so far fetched, that even MacGuyver would sit in a corner trembling after a couple of hours. Ok, I might be a bit harsh here, I know that people like a challenge, but seriously, some of the puzzles in this game just disturb the flow of the game, either with their out-of-this-world solution or with the time it takes to complete them. Audio: The musical score? Quite good... Nothing extraordinary, but it sets the mood and gets the job done.
The voice-acting? Awful! Simply awful! I'm curious to know who they hired to do the voices of the characters on this one... because these actors manage to destroy just about every line in the game. Especially the voice of the female protagonist is really dreadful... She sounds like an airhead cheerleader who clearly does not understand anything about... well, anything! Apart from the really lame voice-acting, one thing hit me like a ton of bricks. Where the hell are the regional accents? I mean, ok to begin with I could accept that all who work in the museum have american accents... whatever. As soon as I get to russia, my bad feeling turns to horror, as every last grunt of the once proud russian army speaks english with a thick american accent. This is just stupid beyond belief. It really ruins the mood for me as a player, that every person on the globe speaks american english... especially in Ireland, whats with that? Hasn't the Broken Sword series shown us how to do this properly... anyways this fault really ruined a lot of the game for me, because it tears down the illusion that the game otherwise builds up fine with the graphics. Graphics:
No much to say here. The pre-rendered backrounds look pretty good and vibrant, if perhaps a little sterile. The charater-models also look ok, but nothing out of the ordinary. All in all, solid work.
Roundoff:
Tunguska is an okay game... It certainly has faults, but those are mostly in the sound department. So if you are willing to try out some really confusing puzzles, here is your chance.