Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Enjoy Some Pulp Action Heroics
There Are Only Two Movies … Maybe Three If You Really Like Sean Connery
Fans of Indy have a chance to pick up his whip, don his hat and try their luck at his unique brand of archaeology. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle has been released and the reviews have been pretty positive. The developers have gone out of their way to try to bring the big screen experience to your computer (or console) and have reportedly done a bang up job. The soundtrack will take you back to those old movies, as will the attention to sound effects. You will face a number of puzzles to overcome but a lot of the gameplay involves fisticuffs. You do still have that iconic revolver on your belt, but like in the movies you can choose to only pull it out for special occasions.
Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN share their experience with this Indiana Jones game, and truly seem to have enjoyed their Nazi-killing experiences. Check out their review here.
Melee fisticuffs in first-person has always been a hard thing for action games to pull off, and here too it can get overwhelming. Crowding the player is a hard problem to solve without resorting to obvious enemy turn-taking and Ubi-like warning indicators (a combative crutch Machine Games seem to want to avoid). Here you are a punchbag under pressure, with limited stamina and slow-to-recover biffs that suggest the correct way to play is to not get into open fights at all. Or if you do, to try and make sure you're only ever fighting one or two people at a time.
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