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Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Having played some Tomb Raider games, I was a bit concerned about the "I've climbed, jumped all the way up here, now where is that button/lever/key" effect that seemed to happen with Tomb Raider, however that doesn't happen here. There are a few difficult puzzles, but not so difficult as to make you want to give up. The storyline is excellent, the graphics is great, and the audio is very good. Once you work out that it is not an FPS with action components, but an action game which also requires you to shoot ..., the gaming is sublime.

Best Action Game I've played in a looonnnggg Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well this is one of the best games I've ever bought. the plot might be alittle wacky but I looked it up and It's all true. The puzzles in the game are excellent. The riddles and puzzles rate alittle higher than Rivin and Myst's riddles and puzzles. The levels are wonderfully designed with much care and thinking. The Aetherium was the hardest for me because of always floating and having to have to worry about teleporting to "The real world" that got frustating. I've played Prince af Persia and I would say that the two games are equal almost. Some of the puzzles can get really annoying but if you sit and think you can figure them out.

Interesting and Challenging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Even though I haven't finished the game yet, I'm far enough into it to attempt a review. This is the first action-type adventure game I've attempted playing and it's been a real hoot! I guess it's best that I've never played Tomb Raider as this feels fresh and new to me. The plot feels true to Indy and I love the locales, especially. It's been a challenge to use the controls but not too difficult. I don't enjoy the combat much but all the leaping, swimming, and puzzles are proving much fun. I have the hint book and I admit to using it once or twice being inexperienced but the game is overall not too difficult to figure out what to do next. The only thing is, I'm exhausted after an evening of playing! I recommend this game to both action AND adventure game fans!

Bought it for my kids but now I'm hooked

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought Indiana Jones for my kids for Christmas but now I am hooked on it myself. The major pros are that the graphics, content, and situations are fun and involving. The major cons are that the game controls are difficult to use, and sometimes you have to be positioned just right to make an action happen. Often, I've been at the right place at the right time but action did not occur because Indy's feet were just not lined up perfectly (remember this when you get to the raft). Lot of time wasted before I figured this out.

Regarding controls, if you use a keyboard you have to remember which key activates a gun, which one activates a whip...etc. A lot of thinking to do when a snake comes after you. I am using a joystick which controls movement, but still need to go to the keyboard to draw weapons. Painful.

Despite the drawbacks, I find myself playing the game every night after work. I am a big fan of Myst...and this is not Myst. Myst wears you out mentally and the physical stuff is just ok. Indy is much more physical. The mental part is pretty straightforward. Bottom-line: a good balance between thinking/action that is keeping me engrossed.

Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is a great buy for any real Indiana Jones fan. Not only is this a great game but the storyline sticks with the biblical astrospects like the movies do. In the movies you have Indy searching for the lost ark, or the Holy grail and this game continues the tradition with him searching for parts to this incredible machine at the fabled ruins of the Tower of Babel among many other exotic locales. Lucasarts has done it again!

another lucasarts error ...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is fairly entertaining but I always seem to get the copies where there is an error on the CD or the disks - it has happened without fail with every Lucasarts game - enough to make me leery about ever buying another Lucasarts game ....

Major-league disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

More than any other game released this year, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine was a thorough let-down for me. Indy moves as if he's walking in a molassses swamp, the controls are awful, and all the game amounts to is a weak Tomb Raider clone. This one is likely to hit the bargain-bins fast. LucasArts really messed up on this one. If you want a Tomb Raider game (which this tries desperately to be, yet only achieves in a very lackadaisical manner) stick with the best: Eidos games and Ms. Lara Croft.

Challenging, but a rip off of Tomb Raider

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought the way Indy moved was very bothersome. You had to push all of these buttons to get him to turn quickly. With Tomb Raider the controls were easier and quicker. I find this game to be kind of clunky. I wish Indy was able to leap forward, backward and sideways like Lara in T.R. It is very difficult to get away from spiders or scorpions becuase Indy can't move fast enough or jump out of the way. I get completely annoyed and start using the cheat codes. When I have to do that that is a bad sign. I never had to do that with the tomb raider series. If you need to cheat to win it isn't that great of a game. Also I wish that we had more control over the whip. The game decides for us how to use it in many situations. I think it would be funner if the game wouldn't do the swinging for us and let us do it ourselves. The menu for weapons and things is quite annoying and awkward at times. They should have used the one that was used on Tomb Raider 1. That one was the best ever. Why didn't they use that one? much easier. Last the gunfighting. I think it is very slow and awkward. I feel like Indy just has to stand in front of each bad guy and you shoot each other. You just have to hope that you shoot faster than the other guy. Indy just doesn't have the movement to evade or dodge bullets quickly. Tomb Raider is better in that aspect. Oh I almost forgot. One thing that really irritates me about this game is the pauses. When a movie is being played Indy can't move for a few seconds after the movie stops, and in that time I've lost half of my energy because the bad guy is already cutting me to shreds and the slow control movements make it hard to escape.

Infernal Machine

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you like bad graphics and frustrating repetitive things this is the game for you. I really like Lucas arts games Sam & Max Grim Fandango but I'm not sure what they were thinking here,if it came out a few years ago it would have been great,but now after playing games like half life it just doesn't live up to that criteria. You really loose respect for DR. Jones after playing this with phrases like"huh a key hole I need a key"they should have called the game rain-man and the infernal machine-it drones on for two discs but I couldn't even sit through one. Though It is somewhat entertaining I kept running into glitches and had to start over from the last saved game which takes oh only about an hour or two to load,god knows why I needed a 3-d accelerator for this-if you like games like this I recommend getting games like this and not this one --

Go Indy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I almost didn't buy this game, because I am not a big fan of "Tomb Raider" style games. But since I am an Indiana Jones fan, I made the plunge.

I really love this game. Smooth gameplay, great graphics and difficult puzzles.

A+

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