Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

I love the game but has no saving option. If your game stops for any reason, you'll have to start right from the begining

For one thing I did not really think the three paths were very different from each other. If you want a game that really offered three very different paths you should play Quest for Glory, which Atlantis obviously owes quite a bit to. Another was the beginning was terrific however I felt the bulk of the game was quite lonely, being almost entirely wandering around a cave and looking for orichalum. As for the Indy Points, I never understood at all what that was about. But still a good game from LucasArts, but I don't think I would ever play it again.

I’m being generous as I have massive nostalgia for this game as I played it in childhood. First half is good and defendable, the latter stages have major issues (all the worst aspects of games of this genre and era). Pros: -Mostly logical/practical use of items. -Puzzle solutions are well telegraphed for the first half of the game without just giving it away. -There is a section in the middle of the game that has a branching path, so you have a choice of three scenarios and therefore slightly different situations and dialogue until the paths converge. -A couple of puzzles have different possible solutions in the early game (okay it’s not much, but that’s more than most games of the era offered). -Story is fitting for the Indiana Jones brand and could have made a good movie (although I agree that the characters were quite 2D, but I just accepted ‘hero’, ‘love interest’, ‘evil nazi guy villain’ as the people you get in an Indiana Jones story). Cons: -Puzzles in the last half of the game involve lots of backtracking (using a consumable item which requires a lot of messing around to replenish if you misuse them trying to solve puzzles). -Several puzzles were purely trial and error (choosing random doors. Exchanging an inventory item for another random item at a shop and trying to give it to someone until you guess the one they want. Flying an almost uncontrollable craft and landing at random locations until you get lucky). -Two puzzles in this game are unforgivably vague and could have easily been hinted at (what type of bait to use for a creature/the fact you have to use bait/getting the bait involves doing something absurd and counter logical). -The voice acting is horrendous (played the non-voice version as a kid and it’s been a shock to hear the audio, the ‘evil scientist’ sounds like someone is choking a clown with helium – really ruined the ‘dramatic’ conclusion and made it feel like a muppets parody).

The fate of Atlantis rests in the hands of the player as Dr. Indiana Jones. For this action packed adventure quest game, the player searches for the greatest prize conceivable within the realms of archaeology, the lost Cube of Atlantis. The search takes players to locations around the world that involve a mix of dialogue, fist fighting, and puzzle solving. Indiana Jones 5: The Cube of Atlantis, uses the Atlantean artifact to inspire communication, teamwork, valor, strategy, navigation, and an ancient code language suggesting the existence of high technology from the lost City of Atlantis. Indiana Jones 6: The New Atlantis, will likely follow up on the plotline of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Okay this game is amazing, this game is what Indiana Jones should have been, this gam defined the genre, this game is a legend yada yada. You heard it thousand times right? I mean just look at this page, it looks like worship center. So let me tell you something that nobody told you about this game yet. It is...easy. Yup, it is not one of those Sierra games that you only retroactivly like to appear badass while in the same time you have PTSD and wake up screaming at night because you missed some one pixel size item and your progress is ruined. Instead this game is very user friendly. As long as you can use your brain you will never need to look up any solutions. Yes, there are puzzles but they are so well integrated that you will not even notice that they are puzzles, instead you will think of them as challenges, I am not solving some puzzle, I am trying to open a door to secret temple- this kind of thinking will always be with you. You will never feel like you are just playing a game.