Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

I feel I have to put some balance against the overwhelmingly positive reviews this game has received. Many of them seem to be based on playing the original game when youngsters, so understandably there is an element of rose-tinted spectacles about them. This game is well put together, and the dialogue choices and situations are entertaining enough. I have to say I gave up on the game after the outer circle of Atlantis (maybe 90% of the way through), for the following reasons: 1) Some of the puzzles are illogical, for which there is no excuse. Towards the end I found myself playing the game in parallel with having the UHS hint system open in order to make reasonable progress. 2) Items that are no longer required or useful are left in the inventory. This would not be a problem if there were logical actions to take (see 1), but they just serve to confuse. 3) Visual cues are very poor. When you're trying to steer the sub into the entrance to Atlantis (which is quite tricky using the sub. controls, but perfectly do-able), there is no indication at all where the actual entrance is, so you could be wasting hours trying to drive the thing into the wrong place. 4) There are at least 2 situations where, when you leave a scene, Indy automatically picks up the sun/moon/world stones which are required later in the game. This gives you a very strong cue that you will not be allowed to leave them behind if you need them (a positive aspect of the game design). However, after you get off the submarine and use them to open the door, you have to manually pick them up. I didn't, and ended up at the Canal in Atlantis without the stones, and I needed them to progress. This is just very poor game design. It wouldn't have been so bad if you knew you had to pick them up every time, rather than them previously being picked up for you. By this point I was done with the game. So this is definitely worth a whirl, but don't be misled by the overly-glowing reviews.

Gut

Runs fine. Fun time.

Still a lot of replay value, 25 years after I played it for the first time. Great story, graphics & sound. I wish they would start to make games like this again =)

I loved the 1st half of the game, cities, fun dialoge moments, but it started to get tedious and lonely at the labrynth. I agree with another user that the world stone puzzles are repetitive. This game still has fun enjoyable parts, but I would recommend Monkey Island or The Dig before this one.