Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™

Some camera issues, and the combat could use some polish, but the game's story and feel absolutely capture the best moments of Indiana Jones.

A great Indy adventure game. Definitely better than Staff of Kings. The Wii controls kind of made Staff of Kings a bit wonky. This one was made to be played with a controller and it shows. Lots of fun, played it years ago and didn't have it until this. Those who enjoy this might do well to hunt down a copy of Indian Jones and the Infernal Machine. It's probably the closest Indy game to this one, but it's much older. Definitely check this out.

...it's not. Let's be clear: it feels and looks like an Indiana Jones adventure, but as a game it has so many problems that really break the immersion and turns it into a boring mess: 1. Camera: jumps every time it hits a wall and since you move depending on where the camera is pointing, then platforming becomes unbearable. 2. "Adventure Mode": a sort of QTE without prompts. It could be fun (maybe) in a mobile game, but on PC it's just ot of place 3. Combat: just click a lot and hope you hit something... that is if an enemy doesn't juggle you around. If there is an NPC with you it's even worse. 4. Swimming: I can't even describe it. Surface swimming= Use WASD. Underwater, press jump to move to where the camera is pointing but WASD will override that, I guess... oh, and good luck shooting the speargun. 5. NO SAVING: You died because you phased through th floor? too bad... go back to the beginning and do everything again. If you are anything like me, get ready to rage quit a lot.

This brings the story of the adventure that is mentioned at the beginning of the second Temple of Doom film in which Indy as a mercenary, sells the remains of the first Chinese emperor to Lao Che, thus linking the game with the film, telling the story before the film . For a good connoisseur, you see your ambitious thinking in your sentences when collecting artifacts, demonstrating a thought contrary to that humble thought at the end of the first, showing that it has evolved. It can demonstrate the essence of Indiana Jones, ADVENTURE, exploration, element of archeology, hand-to-hand combat and archaeological artifacts, every fight you feel like you are in the film Indy, although you like The Fate of Atlantis and The Last Crusade he is undoubtedly the best. It inspired other sagas like Uncharted, in hand-to-hand combat, but it cannot be denied that it brings elements of Tomb Raider as exploration. If you like Indiana movies and want to know more about the stories before the movies, this game is a full plate, well worth it.

I bought this game on CD back in the day, was sold on the 'third person action adventure' thing. The game is fun, the locales are interesting, there are varied environs (you get jungles, castles, ruins, underwater levels, cities... one level is a moving turret section, and in another you have to fight a giant squid underwater), Indy changes outfits in different levels (a fun bit of immersion), and you get all the adventuring stuff you can want with whip-jumping across ledges, fighting bad guys and wild beasts, robe climbing, and whathaveyou. Weapons include: the whip, Indy's revolver, a sword (different kinds in different levels), a Walter pistol from the Nazis, and at least one machine-gun. Also, there's a magic boomerang that is mosly used in the final act of the game. Seriously, this game is just great! The soundtrack is splendid! The downsides? Well, controls feel a bit unresponsive at times, and the camera doesn't always want to behave properly. As others have mentioned, there aren't as many checkpoints as the game should have (no, I'm not talking about how modern games have checkpoints every five steps, but this is and adventure game with platforming and some "timed" jumps, so a few more checkpoints would have been welcome). But these can be overlooked, especially if you're an old-school gamer that's used to minor inconveniences. Overall, give this game a go. You'll love it!