Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn - boxed - PS3

The Adventures of Tintin: The Game is a game based on the Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé between 1929 and 1983. It's released as a companion game to Spielberg's 2011 animated film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and follows its story. The plot is based on events from various comics, including The Crab with the Golden Claws, Red Rackham's Treasure and The Secret of the Unicorn.

The game is a side-scrolling 2D platformer with light puzzle elements, focused on taking out enemies and finding a way to reach the next area. Tintin can sneak around, steal keys, hide in barrels, throw items, roll, grab onto ledges and jump to reach platforms. Combat is based on stealth takedowns, but there's also regular melee combat. In later levels, the guards are well armed and the player must use environmental items such as banana peels or wet paint to take them out. Occasionally there's a level boss. Tintin can also send Snowy to sneak through gaps, or order Haddock to stand on a pressure plate.

Solo mode begins at a flea market in Belgium, where young reporter Tintin buys a model ship. Shortly afterwards, a collector appears wanting to buy it from him for ten times the price. Intrigued, Tintin is taken to an expert who explains that it's a replica of the Unicorn, a three-masted ship from the fleet of Charles II, blown up by its own captain during an attack by Red Rackham in 1676. Tintin wants to find out why the captain sank his own ship, and finds a document inside the model, but the collector returns and secretly steals the ship from him. With Snowy's help, he tracks down the collector's house, and from there the search for the secret of the "Unicorn" begins. He ends up on the ship SS Karaboudjan, where he meets Captain Haddock. From there they travel to the palace of Ben Salaad, then to Bagghar, a fictional port city in Morocco, and finally back to the home town of Marlinspike.

The game is interspersed with short sequences that move away from 2D platforming. These 3D segments include motorcycle battles during a chase, plane flights, scent tracking with Snowy, diving, and on-rails sword-fighting sections set aboard the Unicorn in the past. The game can be played in a separate co-op mode with Tintin, Haddock and opera singer Bianca Castafiore. In these separate levels, players must work together, as each character has a different ability. Tintin uses a grappling hook, Haddock pushes crates and breaks through walls, and Castafiore can perform a double jump and shatter glass. There's also a challenge mode in which players can compete against each other.