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If any blockbuster franchise should be easy to adapt into a good video game, it's Indiana Jones, but spinning the source material into a truly great game is a less enviable task. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle ends a long hiatus for the archaeologist's interactive adventures, re-appearing in a world where the Uncharted series has already redefined the genre.
✕ Remove Ads It's a proper globe-trotting adventure, and it features the same kind of erratic pacing that tends to define stories driven by set pieces. Several big playgrounds offer Indy ample room to explore, starting with a tour of the Vatican that features a milder version of the Hitman franchise's undercover flavor.
Posts Like the Wolfenstein titles from MachineGames, combat that never truly reinvents itself relies on a succession of set pieces and new opportunities to keep things interesting. Scavenging melee weapons is the easiest way to take out enemies, and although smacking a guard with a rolling pin or a mallet mostly comes down to the same thing, there's fun to be had in seeing tools that should be perfectly durable explode against the thickness of fascist skulls.
✕ Remove Ads Cinematic Presentation That Actually Means Something The Spielberg DNA Is Very Present Close Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's focus on immersion works in service of its story experience, and although I haven't reached the end credits at the time of this writing, I've been consistently impressed by how it handles that narrative.
✕ Remove Ads A lot of games have good stories, but far fewer have good storytelling, and the style is what ultimately sells Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Cutscenes actually make use of both foreground and background action, and characters occupy themselves in more ways than just opening and closing their lips.
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