The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (video game) side-view, and are controlled by means of finger swipes on the touchscreen. The game also incorporates stealth levels and quick time events. The console versions of the game have a slightly different plot than the iOS, Android and Symbian^3 versions. A sea plane 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 then flashbacks to the previous day, where Tintin and Snowy are looking around a market. Tintin purchases a model ship,
Tintin (character) and has prompted a few to devote their careers to his study. General Charles de Gaulle "considered Tintin his only international rival". Hergé biographer Pierre Assouline noted that "Tintin had a prehistory", being influenced by a variety of sources that Hergé had encountered throughout his life. Hergé noted that during his early schooling in the midst of World War I, when German armies occupied Belgium, he had drawn pictures in the margins of his school workbooks of an unnamed young man battling (a slang term for the Germans). He later commented that these drawings depicted a brave and adventurous character