Secret Mission

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Secret Mission

Post by Bas » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:27 pm

hey
does anyone has a guide for this game? It's an amazing game and it deserves more attention!

Do you have Secret Mission, and in what language is your disc subtitled (and boxart)?


An inconsistent adventure that features an interesting plot hampered by poor user interface, Secret Mission is a relatively unknown adventure game from French developer Microid, who would go on to produce a much more solid and better-known Amerzone CD adventure. Secret Mission opens with the tried-and-true adventure gaming premise: you wake up in a nondescript hotel room with an amnesia, with no recollection of who or where you are. After meeting a certain attractive young lady, you learn that you are Jeff, a double agent who pretends to work for the Americans, but actually works for the Russians. You are now in Opalia, an exotic Middle East country that is about to be embroiled in a coup d'etat: Vishaka, the prime minister, is planning to assassinate the King to usurp his power. Naturally, your mission is to find the evidence of this scheme, so that Russia can use it to gain influence over the country. The Americans are after the same goal, so you must not arouse their suspicion of your traitorous acts while you carry out the secret mission.

Gameplay follows a typical inventory-based adventure, although for some reason you cannot use the mouse, so you must use the keyboard only to move around and interact with the environment. Similar to Alone in The Dark, objects you can interact with are shown in a small window when you are close to them, and pressing ESC brings up an action menu you can toggle to get, open, move, give, etc. The number of verbs in the menu makes this interface very unwieldy, and using items in your inventory is a cumbersome process. Also, the game is played from an isometric perspective, where Jeff can only walk in four cardinal directions. This very outdated design makes moving very frustrating in confined areas, and several times I had to repeatedly hit the arrow keys to get Jeff "unstuck" from the wall. Interface weakness aside, though, Secret Mission serves up an interesting espionage thriller, with many plot twists and turns, shady characters, and several ulterior motives. The puzzles are, for the most part, logical, although some (such as decrypting the hierogryphics) are quite interesting. Overall, an above-average adventure that fans of the genre should take a look, although don't expect another Last Express.

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Post by Devin » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:22 pm

Yes I have a few bits for this game including a 40 page guide and a couple of webpages which I assume was used through the CD-online service for the Netherlands. Haven't really paid much attention to this game myself to be honest but I know the game looks very impressive and Microids were hot property in CDi Magazine for new games coming to CD-i which unfortunately never materialised.

Anyone know what happened to the team from Microids?
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Post by Bas » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:37 pm

as far as i know Microids still exists... www.microids.com

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Post by Devin » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:40 pm

Still turning out Adventure games then by the looks of things!!
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Post by Philipscdi.com » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:58 pm

I have the French, German and English version of this game, all original and all with the booklet, off course.
I only played the French because that was my first version. I finished it a couple of times. I used to love it. I might give the English version a try sometime soon.
I must have a guide or walkthrough somewhere...

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Post by Bas » Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:25 pm

was it only translated (subtitles), or was Jeff actually speaking german/french?

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Post by Ruekov » Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:12 pm

is full french, bas.
voices and subtitles.

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Post by Philipscdi.com » Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:17 pm

The same goes for the German version.
(speaking German, not French, off course...)

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Post by Bas » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:57 pm

Nice. The dutch version was only subtitled, they all spoke english.

Does anybody know of any other languages?

(is this the same thing as in Lost Eden? Do they speak french in the french version as well?)

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