Developer : Ubisoft
Release date : October 21, 2011
Synopsis :
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Game in North America) is an action-adventure, platforming video game based on the film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is based on the series The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 on 21 October 2011 in Europe, on 1 December in Australia and on 6 December in North America. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, working in collaboration with the producers of the film, and published by Ubisoft. The iOS, Android and Symbian^3 versions were published by Gameloft and released on the App Store and Android Market on 31 October 2011, and on the Ovi Store on 11 January 2012. The online services for the game were shut down on 6 October 2015.
A seaplane carrying Tintin (voiced by Adam Howden), Captain Haddock (Lewis Macleod), and Tintin’s dog Snowy is flying through a thunderstorm when it is hit by lightning and crash lands in a desert, knocking all three unconscious.
The game flashbacks to the previous day, where Tintin and Snowy are looking around a market. Tintin purchases a model ship, which another man tries to purchase from him, but fails. The man who sold it to Tintin brings him to a shipping expert, who tells Tintin that the ship is a model of the Unicorn, a galleon which belonged to Sir Francis Haddock. From a book given to him by the expert, Tintin learns that the ship (which was a part of Charles II’s fleet) was on its way from Barbados to Europe when it was attacked by pirate Red Rackham. Rather than allow the Unicorn to be boarded, Sir Francis scuttled the ship and fled.
Tintin takes the model to a back alley to examine it, finding a scroll hidden inside, which contains a strange poem about three ships. He is attacked by some men, who steal the ship, but without the scroll. Tintin is able to use Snowy to follow the scent of one of the men, leading to Marlinspike Hall. There, he meets the man who had attempted to get the boat in the market, one of the Bird brothers. The brothers chase after Tintin, attempting to get the scroll (which Tintin gives it to Snowy), but they are knocked unconscious by Allan (Timothy Watson) and his men. Allan knocks Tintin unconscious as well.
Tintin wakes up on a ship, the Karaboudjan, but is freed by Snowy. Realizing that Allan has stolen the Birds’ scroll, they set out to find him. He inadvertently climbs into the cabin of the original captain of the ship, who gives Tintin directions on how to find Allan. He confronts Allan. He divulges that the former captain is a member of the Haddock family, an ancestor of Sir Francis. Tintin manages to get the scrolls from Allan and brings them to Haddock, who agrees to tell Tintin the story of his ancestor.
The Unicorn was an enormous galleon that transported goods from various places to Europe. When it was attacked by Red Rackham, it was carrying gold, coins, diamonds and other precious treasure, which Rackham had hoped to steal. However, as Haddock re-enacts the sword fighting of his ancestor, he destroys some electric cables, setting fire to the cabin, which ultimately causes the ship to sink. Tintin, Snowy and Haddock manage to escape and climb onto a seaplane.
The game picks up where the first scene left off, as Tintin, Haddock, and Snowy wake up in the desert. Two men approach them in a motorcycle with a sidecar. They are Allan’s men, and plan to bring Tintin to the city of Baghar to meet with Allan’s “boss”. Haddock knocks them unconscious and he, Tintin and Snowy steal their motorcycle and head to Baghar to continue their quest to stop Allan. There, they discover that Omar ben Salaad (Waleed Elgadi) has the third model Unicorn. After getting into his palace, they meet Bianca Castafiore, who is staging a concert there. Tintin finds out that Salaad wants to get the third scroll, and that he is, in fact, Allan’s boss. After a fight with Allan, Tintin gets the third scroll and heads off to Brittany, where he and Haddock earlier identified as Sir Francis’ hideout. Learning that the scrolls contain the coordinates of the treasure of Red Rackham, Tintin and Haddock plan to head there, but Haddock is kidnapped by Allan, who uses him as a hostage to get the scrolls. After rescuing Haddock, Tintin discovers that the treasure is hidden within Marlinspike Hall. There they confront both the Bird brothers and Allan and his men, find the treasure and Thomson and Thompson arrest the criminals.
Source : Wikipedia
