Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

First time I played Indiana Jones and the last Crusade on the Amiga 2000. Yeah, you got it ... it was shipped on 11 disks and was a pain to play. And the port was lousy as hell, you could see that LucasArts didn't put any hope in the Amiga's future. Luckily I owned a bridgeboard so after a few hours of disk swapping (even with 2 drives) I installed it on a 20 MB hard drive. Still it was nothing to look forward to, the port was lousy. A short time after that, I got my hands on a x286 and one of the first things I did was to get this game and play it. What a revelation. Sure, the sound and music quality sucked (I was used to Amiga music which was the best at the time), but the rest was great. Years later, when I finally got a Soundblaster card (and later a Maestro for General Midi), the first thing I did was of course play this game again. Now with acceptable music quality it was even better. At this point, I must have played this game at least 20 time (each possible way a couple of times). I don't know why I keep returning to this game, only a few weeks ago I played through it again (I lost count a long time ago). It just feels right, exactly what I expect from a point & click adventure. No other game (no, not even the Monkey Island games) can keep up to it. I just wished the voice samples of the talkie version would have higher quality. Since it was released on CD anyway, i don't understand why they didn't use better samples. If you play it these days, make sure you install VirtualMidiSynth and some good orchestral sound fonts, since the Windows Midi quality is awful.

"Fate of Atlantis" ist mMn der beste Teil der Point & Click Adventure-Reihe von Indiana Jones. Farbenfroh, voll von Rätseln (von leicht bis etwas schwereren) und man kann mehrere Wege begehen, so das man es auch gerne noch ein zweites, drittes oder sogar viertes mal spielen möchte.

A pity that this game never got the remaster treatment other LucasArts games got. This might be the most complex Point and Click ever made. Not only the story and gameplay are excellent. I think most Point and Click games suffers from being too lineal, so if you already finished the game once, it was probably the end, there was not point on replaying except if there were multiple endings. But this game, put multiple paths based on your choices that alters dramatically the story, also it randomized some puzzles so if you replayed the game, some objects you were looking for were hidden in another room, or different objects being required to solve a certain puzzle. I don't think I've seen before those kind of elements in a different game from the same genre. The game also features multiple endings, however this game also features deaths, which some people may dislike in these kind of games. I think this game is totally underrated if you compare to other games by LucasArts, definitely worth playing.

Great adv game. The puzzles are well thought out, albeit not always realistic, the story is fun, the voice acting somehow sounds like Indiana Jones even though it doesn't sound anything like Harrison Ford... The visuals are wonderful for the era and make pixel art, even today, still look like a work of art... You really want to go along with it, even today, though pixel art is "dated". However, at times it still feels rather cartoony, in terms of story...some of the puzzles would not be in a movie script. This doesn't make it a bad game, but sometimes the game works on another level, somehow it feels like a direct sequel to the Indiana Jones triology or something even greater in it's own right. I can't straight up claim the game works as a sequel to Last Crusade, it's still very "adventure gamey" in sections, but it does have enough content that somehow manages to give it that feeling in memory, that most people look at it as if it were a first Indiana Jones 4 The voice acting is fantastic and unlike many other pixel art games, the characters somehow have incredible chemistry that comes across in the language of pixels. Sophia somehow feels like a long pre-exsting, canonized Indiana Jones character, and yet we've just met her. The story has this pre-existing history of the character that somehow feels compltely convincing and as if it were an actual part of the universe. Atlantis is a far cry from the holy grail or lost Ark and yet somehow the game manages to make the subject feel "Jonesy" or perhaps "Even More than Jonesy"... Somehow the game recreates the character of Indiana Jones, gives him it's own dialogues and character interactions, allows you to play as him, pixel art, a whole new story, a voice actor that doesn't even sound like HF, periodic goofy humor and puzzles, yet somehow it really manages to feel like Indiana Jones.This is impressive and you won't soon forget how engrossing the experience is as a fan of the films Difficulty just right

I'm storming through puzzle games lately and stumbled on this gem from 1992 mainly because there was a sale on Indiana Jones games, lucky me! I played Lucas Arts games growing up and this is a great intro to the series of games if you've not played many, or any at all. The puzzles so far are enjoyable and not too difficult. Sure you have to use mayonaise to slide some things around, but with only a few things to interact with in each area you quickly find out what needs to happen. The graphics are what they are, but what you lose in realism you gain with a really good storyline equal to that of an Indiana Jones movie. You'll meet a bunch of characters, fly across the Atlantic Ocean in search of artifacts, and roam the desert on camelback in search of hidden locations, what's not to love? The only grievences are with the action interface, which is a little cumbersome. There's an option for 9+ things depending on where you're at in the game and while there are keyboard shortcuts it can still be tough to navigate at times. The biggest gripe I have is there are commands for Push and one for Pull which will really drive you crazy sometimes. A simple combination of these two would have been super, but hey it was 1992 and they loved their action interfaces. All and all though, this is really enjoyable and worth the purchase. I've been how suprised that you don't even notice the graphics or the action interface because it's just a fun game. Thanks for the time-killer!