It might not sound realistic, but it actually works really well as a sort of gaming equivalent to gut feelings and intuition. The camera also works beautifully, to the point where you don't even notice it.
If it gets too close to Indy, it simply disappears, so you can always see everything you need to see. Whenever you enter an area of interest or see something particularly important, the camera swings round in true cinematic fashion.
Like in TR: The Last Revelation, the boundary between cut-scenes and actual gameplay is blurred to the point where you feel you're taking part in your own film.
But he's also cool, tough and always gets the chicks - definitely more Bogart than Baldrick. When he talks about the value of an ancient object, he usually means in dollars, rather than the "for the love of history" approach usually favoured by archaeologists.
So, fittingly, there are loads of gold statues and valuable coins hidden throughout the maps for you to get your greedy hands on. Once a level has been completed, there's a shopping screen where you can spend your goodies on ammo, poison kits and medicinal herbs. There's even a map you can buy that takes you to a hidden level which is supposed to feature scenes from the films like being chased by a giant rolling rock.
But it costs a fortune and we haven't amassed enough pennies to try it out. But that's not the only incentive to explore every map fully. You're also given an IQ score after each level, based on the amount of secrets you've found out and how long it's taken you to finish.
A combination of the stats you get after completing a mission in an FPS and a true old-style points system, it's not entirely trustworthy as an intelligence test. Mine reached over a at one point, which surely can't be right. The Infernal Machine was originally supposed to be a PlayStation game as well, but the console version was cancelled. We can tell you exactly why: old Sony-boy wouldn't be able to handle it.
While it's apparent that it has its roots in the console-orientated Tomb Raider, Indy's sheer scale is breathtaking. There are great big mountain ranges as far as the eye can see, not just a painted-on background and, while it necessarily needs the confined caves and temples, you feel that there is a world beyond.
Like in the Midtown Madness versus Driver debate, it is the PC-only version that comes out the winner, because the depth of scale removes many restrictions. When you drive vehicles you can go all over massive terrains, not just on a preset path. You don't just have to swim in small underground lakes and cave rivers - you get to dive in the sea, fight off sharks and find sunken ships and aeroplanes. Surprisingly, great big sprawling levels don't mean getting lost and running around not knowing what to do.
The levels are excellently designed and you always know where you're going. If you do get lost, there's a handy piece of chalk in your inventory that you can mark rocks and walls with.
People are still going to compare it to Tomb Raider, but what would you rather play, a Star Wars space sim or an equally good space sim featuring indeterminate aliens? Well, exactly. Indiana Jones is more than worthy of bearing its quality name. It has the same sense of spectacular adventure that makes the films so much fun. You'll find yourself humming the theme tune on public transport and getting the sort of looks usually reserved forTourette's sufferers.
I haven't managed to complete it yet, but I'm willing to cut down my time playing System Shock 2 and CM3 until I have. And if that's not recommendation enough, I don't know what is.
We don't mind killing Russian soldiers, though we are afraid of them. Or fox-hunters, for that matter. If there's one thing we hate about Tomb Raider, It's having to shoot animals all the time. Being the animal lovers that we are, killing monkeys, gorillas and tigers just seems sick and wrong. It's one of the reasons it's so hard to sympathise with Lara every time she plummets to her death.
LucasArts, having a nice family-friendly image to maintain, have solved this by making most animals run away once you've fired a shot in the air. Not every animal is awarded such honorary treatment, however. Scorpions, fist-sized spiders and piranhas all need to be killed if you want to survive. In one level, you need to kill loads of ugly hyenas before a boy whose help you need will come out of his hiding place. But then not many people like hyenas anyway. If you enjoy shooting animals, maybe you should go out and buy Deer Hunter 2 instead.
You sick bastard. Technology is the scourge of humanity, Microsoft is the Devil and the Internet is Hell. The title of the game isn't gratuitous - almost every obstacle you encounter is mechanical. Switches, levers, cogs, wheels, clockwork and every type of engine you can imagine up to the ultimate Infernal Machine itself, a futuristic contraption that looks like it belongs on the set of Thtn.
We're not suggesting LucasArts are a bunch of technophobes - that would be ridiculous. But there is a Luddite spirit throughout the game which lends a cohesive structure to the narrative. It's like a reworking of Chaplin's Modem Times with whips instead of walking sticks and a fedora rather than a bowler hat Indy's adventures are all about delving into the deepest past, not the future.
He is a character from another age, like those fathers who don't know how to set the video, spend hours trying to get to the right page on Teletext and run away at the sight of a PC. So how come he's still so damn cool? Rumours on the follow-up to The Last Crusade have been slithering over the Internet for ages.
So far, the only confirmed report is that Indy IV will definitely be made. Apparently, a script has already been penned with Spielberg directing, George Lucas producing and Harrison Ford donning his fedora once more.
Everything else title, cast and plot is pure speculation and conjecture. As you'd expect from three of Hollywood's most influential men, their schedules are heavily booked, so there's no date set in stone. The most hotly tipped plots involve Atlantis though this seems unlikely, given that it was all done in a game nearly five years ago , Noah's Ark Indy using his whip to round up animals in pairs?
Then there's the really outrageous rumours, like a John 'Home Alone? Hughes script set in a haunted house, or one featuring aliens and flying saucers. One thing's for sure: it will be better than The Phantom Menace. At least it's not a prequel. Whip, leap, climb, crawl, and swim your way through amazing 3D environments. Survive the challenge of hungry critters, hostile robots, weird monsters, half the Red Army, and more.
Puzzle your way through 17 chapters of a gripping, action-packed story. Travel the world to exotic locales, from the ruins of Babylon to the labyrinths of the Nubian kings. You'll find all the weapons you'll need, including automatic pistols, machine guns, grenades, satchel charges, bazookas, and of course, Indy's trusty whip and revolver.
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