Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

This is the best point-and-click adventure game ever made. While that's quite a subjective thing to say, I can think of no better way to put it. Naturally nostalgia fuels this sentiment, but when the chips are down and if you held a gun to my head and asked me to name my favourite GAME of all time, it would be Fate of Atlantis. When you first begin the game, you'll at first wonder if it's still in the spirit of the first three movies. It's a bit off-beat and even slightly campy at times. Indy's banter seems slightly out of place, but then suddenly everything clicks. This is a LucasArts game first and foremost, but where it's different than Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion is that it embodies the spirit of its source material and feels like a fourth film in its own right. As separate IPs, Monkey Island and Mansion weren't able to capitalise on this, but in the case of Indy, it all came together beautifully. The game was very hard when I was young, and I remember getting a book at my local library that offered a walkthrough for a number of adventure games released during the period. Today, the idea of checking a book out of the library for this purpose seems downright archaic. Perhaps that's what I've become. The characters are very well developed and I think I still have a crush on Sophia Hapgood. The environment, the Lost City of Atlantis, was a perfect setting for this game and allowed for something that would have been quite poorly executed in film form. It's a downright shame that this is a movie we never got. The 2008 film could have certainly been FoA and even at Ford's age, the story would have worked. Never mind. Forget the film, play the game and experience a legendary adventure.

Da es nie einen vierten Kinofilm gab, ist dieses Spiel für mich Indiana Jones 4. Die alte EXE Datei um das Spiel unter DOS zu starten hiess ja auch indy4.exe. Neben Monkey Island 2 das wohl beste Adventure von LucasArts. Die Geschichte ist sehr stimmig, die Rätsel sind z.T. knackig aber nicht unfair und die gezeichneten und eingescannten Hintergründe mögen einigen heute halt altmodisch wirken, zum Zeitpunkt des Erscheinen waren sie aber top und auch heute noch anschaubar. Besonders erwähnenswert sind die drei wählbaren Lösungswege, die den Wiederspielwert erhöhen. Ich spiele am Liebsten den Weg, wo Indy von Sophia begleitet wird, weil dies am ehesten einem Indy Film entspricht, da er in allen dreien eine Dame an seiner Seite hatte. Wer es noch nicht kennt und klassische Point and Click Adventures mag, wird dieses Spiel sehr mögen.

From the impeccable puzzle designs, to the beautiful visuals, to the entrancing music, to the immersive story, this game is just absolutely incredible. It truly is an Indiana Jones adventure, not some cheap tie-in game.

It's 1993, i own my first PC and watch the end sequence of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. And it's still the best adventure game i ever played!

This is not only it's the best Indy game, but also the best adventure game. I wish the last Indy movie would be more like this game, the world would had been a better place :P. So buy it, play it, and cry tears of joy!!