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Secret Files 3 starts even with the marriage between the two in a church of Ministered, even if the prologue is set in Alexandria in the fourth century BC where, in the shoes of a thief in charge of destroying some scrolls, we must first climb a wall, then distracted Finally, a guard and two guards to avoid even we Altair. The beginning of this demo for the PC (the same as presented to the Games com in August) is nothing short of unsettling for the series, but it's really a matter of minutes just to introduce a film effect the appearance of Nina, which edge of his shiny red bike is on his way to the church where he awaits his beloved Max But something does not come back, there are no guests, the priest who celebrates the ritual seems a bit 'too frantic and suddenly unleashes hell fire and flames. In the church half-destroyed Nina, still in wedding dress, looking for a way out and that's the first real start of the game puzzles. The initial impact with Secret Files 3, once in the mediocre site prologue to the Egyptian background, could not be more classic.

We fill a cup with water from the baptistery to extinguish a small outbreak of fire, collect some items, we sway of a statue (a sort of mini-game) and here passed the first test. The rest of the demo runs well or poorly on this trail. After the French brackets we find ourselves in the house of Nina and Max Berlin, where sudden raid disrupts the peaceful ménage police the couple. Max is arrested on suspicion of terrorist activities, but Nina understands that there is something sinister and she will be looking for clues that could exonerate her future husband's accusation as absurd as to be dangerous. The search of objects and hot-spot is facilitated by the space bar as usual, indicating that all interactive points, and the control system, entrusted to the two mouse buttons (to observe and interact), is the simplest we could expect. Moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen, do appear inventory, access to the main menu of the game and the aid system, which has however proved futile as it is confined to provide only the actions just made.

The puzzles encountered in this little hour or so of play proved to be quite interesting, although the few locations available so far (in fact only the home of Nina and Max's office) have allowed an easy solution of logical proofs, in fact solvable in single room. The collection of clues to read and see is another piece in the context well and apart from a simple puzzle to open a safe level of difficulty it seemed medium-high for now, although in at least two traits we happen to solve many puzzles a little 'basis and without any real motivation behind it.

The same plot is too confusing for arcane precise idea: the demo was interrupted by Nina's trip to Turkey to investigate an archaeological excavation of a friend of Max, but as suggested by the movie intermission we have to do with an ancient curse, hooded with a shady character who goes through the walls and the ancient Egyptian view of parchment at Alexandria in the prologue. Evidence is too fragmentary, but it is certain that the narrative genre chosen by Animation Arts will still be the conspiratorial fantasy (who said Dan Brown?) And expect this side of a plot worthy of attention. Unfortunately we ran into other characters and therefore have not been able to test the system and the thickness of the dialogues, the same applies to the breakers in the two previous episodes cooperative seen that, at least to feel the developers should not be missed in the full game. On the technical side Secret Files 3 sports environments and backgrounds always maintained and somewhat polygonal models' wood but very detailed, while the cut-scenes and show a less convincing level of production certainly not from Triple A. Overall we have not noticed a big improvement over its predecessor, but to say for sure, we refer to the full review which we hope to offer soon.