Posted on: July 7, 2019
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A nice 3D adventure with Indy flavour.
Back when it was released, Infernal Machine was labeled as "another Tomb Raider clone" and reviewers didn't see further than that. While it is true that the game shares many mechanics and gameplay elements, it still has a personality of its own and does feel like a proper Indiana Jones adventure. The plot, while not as inspired as that from other Indy games, is nicely told in real time cutscenes, that not only show up at the beggining of a level, but whenever something of importance happens. Indy himself often voices his own thoughts out loud, giving clues as to what to do or providing some humour, like when he's expressing his frustration with the cryptical nature of some inscriptions. Voiced again by Doug Lee from Fate of Atlantis, and being directed and written by Hal Barwood, who also directed Indiana's atlantean adventure, both the tone and dialogues of the game remind of those from FoA. That style can also be felt in the nature of some of the levels. While the Tomb Raider lever and block pushing are there, item and inventory puzzles play a bigger role than in Lara Croft's outings. Indy will also interact with other characters in some of the levels, which will ask him to perfom certain tasks. However, the game is not without flaws. Controls feel a bit stiff at times. Even after mapping a controller with joy2key to match the control scheme of a PsOne Tomb Raider game (which DID help a lot), Indy himself feels slower than miss Croft, taking longer to perfom certain actions, like taking forever to draw his gun. Some puzzles can be particularly obscure, too, and the last two levels have a very abstract design to them, not matching the tone of the rest of the game. The offers a bonus level in the Peru temple from Raiders of the Lost Ark right after, though. Infernal Machine is a varied, decent 3D adventure worthy of the adventurer's name, and those who are familiar with the Tomb raider formula and can look past the game's flaws will sure have a great time with it.
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