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Solid: Great Game For All

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 27
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

LEGO Indiana Jones is a sweet game. Of course, this is in line with the LEGO Star Wars (LSW) series that kicked us off. Also, this release coincides with the movie release, just like the Star Wars series.

There are really three aspects of these LEGO video games that apply: ease of play (all ages), strategy, and hilarious humor. LEGO Indiana Jones (LIJ) definitely hits these aspects up - such a fun game.

If you have played the LSW series, you are familiar with the basic controls: four buttons for action, jump, attack, and special. When in Free Play mode, you use the character switch button as well. Same concept here. So easy a child can play and enjoy it, but therefore good for adults as well!

The strategy is more for the older kids (ages 10 and up), I think. The strategic elements of the game are primarily in the Free Play mode, such as deciding which characters to use for which scenarios. Also, a youngster may not fully comprehend the abilities of Indy and his whip. And that is a new feature in this LEGO video game (sort of... more like an expansion of an old theme, I suppose) - your character interacts with the environment differently. For example, in LIJ, you can use the whip to disarm enemies, activate levers, and perform puzzle solutions. It's just a tad different (kind of a mix, really) of the LSW strategies. But you will notice some similarities and understand what I mean by "an expansion of an old theme." Basically, if you played the LSW series, this will be familiar to you; if not, it won't be that difficult, especially for the older players.

Another cool aspect of the environment is that your players can fully interact with it now. This is new. Basically, you can now swim, climb, and pick up objects and whatnot. Also, you can use the objects that you pick up - like chairs, bottles, etc. - to inflict damage on your enemies. This makes the game even more entertaining as the possibilities are quite varied with each play.

In the LSW series, the graphics were very cool and true to the films that they represented (down to the sound effects and music). LIJ is no different - you will love the ambience as it recreates the places that Indiana visited in the movies. It is so cool interacting in the places that you watched on film at a younger age (some 20 years ago) - it's like watching the movie again, only it is more exciting now because you are in engaging in it!

Another thing that delighted me was the number of characters that you can unlock. I won't give away any secrets, but basically, if you saw them in one of the three movies, you will see them in LIJ, as well. It is super-cool to play with the good guys and villains, as each have their own specialty moves and whatnot. Plus, it brings back memories with all the rest of the game interaction. Very cool. (Interesting that Indy is the focus of the movie/game, and yet there are over 60 characters you will be unlocking!)

And like LSW2, you can "create" your own characters. That is, you can mix and match character body parts to essentially create new people to play with in the Free Play mode. Kinda cool if you like the whacky things, but I did not find it particularly cool - sometimes it is not practical: like putting female body parts with a male's head. Kind of like LSW2 where you could put C3PO's head on Princess Leia's body. It's funny, in some ways, but not necessarily the coolest. That is all I am saying.

Anyway, to wrap this up, LEGO Indiana Jones is a superb game. I recommend it for people who like to play vastly simple and exceedingly fun games. Also, if you have kids, the simplicity will make it a playable game for them. However, unlike the LEGO Star Wars series, they may not be as familiar with Indiana Jones (unless you showed them the latest movie that just came out or have the previous collection). My recommendation is that if your kid was not overly impressed with Indiana Jones in the movie(s), then LEGO Indiana Jones may not be too fun for them as a video game, even if they like the LEGOs. That is, the LEGO theme should not be the reason why you purchase this game - Indiana Jones should be. Just a recommendation.

But other than that, I love these sorts of games. They generally take about 40 hours to complete, and if you shelve them for a moderate amount of time, you will still enjoy picking them back up and playing them later on, trying to rediscover all the hidden spots for things. Very fun concept, easy gameplay, and good strategy - and you will crack up playing it, too. An easy 5-star rating.

(P.S. I recommend the Windows/PC version over the game console versions, by the way, because of greater capabilities and a generally lower price. However, if you already have the consoles and are not a big computer player, then you will still have as much fun.)

Indiana Jones Lego PC Game Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm 9 years old and this is my first review. I have the game for Windows XP on a 3 year old laptop and had no problems installing it. I think Lego Indiana Jones is a great game. You can do more things than in Lego Star Wars. For example, you can pick things up and use them like dynamite, shovels, wrenches, and books. Also you can disarm people with your whip, and take the weapon they have from them. The only bad thing about Lego Indiana Jones is that it takes a while to load the scenes. I would highly recommend for anyone who likes a challenge and that enjoyed Lego Star Wars. But it is different in many ways than Lego Star Wars.

Another FANTASTIC Lego Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this is another amazingly well done Lego game! Although I have the Star Wars games for the Gamecube and have played them on the Wii, I decided to try the new Indy Lego game on the PC, and I am REALLY glad I did. It installed with no problem and plays perfectly on my Vista SP1 Quad 2.4Ghz PC with nVidia 8800GTS and 4GB RAM. Connected to my 60" Sony HDTV, it looks and plays great, and the HD gaming at 1920 x 1080P just blows away the low-res 480P Wii. At about half the cost of the Wii game, this is quite the deal!

The game works just fine with two Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 game controllers. Setting up the button assignments in the setup screen is very straightforward and obvious; just copy the buttons shown in the manual for the XBox 360 PC controller. Only drawback is that you seem to have to assign the second controller every time you start the game (e.g. after a PC reboot/powerup), but it's a minor point.

My kids and I have gotten through the first several levels with no major problems, although it can be challenging at times, but not too much so. The play is very similar to the Star Wars Lego games, along with the occasional humor thrown in just for fun.

This game is so good, I may actually get the Lego Batman for PC when it comes out, although I had not really considered it before.

This one's a real winner for all ages!!! :-)

A very exciting game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In this game you can play throughout the scenes of the classic Indiana Jones movies, but with the perspective of a LEGO Mini-Figure.
If you enjoy playing with LEGO Bricks, watching the Indiana Jones movies, or if you enjoy playing a fun and challenging game, then you would find LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures to be an interesting experience!

Like the LEGO Star Wars games, you can interact with LEGO Bricks, play through the movies, solve puzzles that are both challenging and fun, buy special characters and powers, collect special items, and battle enemies with your friend.
However, there are actions that you can't perform in the Star Wars games that you can perform in this game. You can pick up and carry objects, defeat enemies and solve problems with your whip, dig up objects, fix mechanical objects, climb,and shimmy along walls.

Certain characters have special abilities (Indy can use the whip, Willie can scream very loudly, etc). Some characters have phobias (Indy is afraid of snakes, so he would not perform well when he is close to snakes.) Bonus levels can be unlocked by collecting Artifacts (a new form of Mini-kits). There are also many secrets in the very levels of the game.

Overall, this is a very good game and I highly recommend it.
~Bricknave

A lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a ton o' fun and made us want to buy the Lego Star Wars games.

super game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In this game you can interact with the enviroment way more than lego star wars. You can pick things up for example, a box. You can also pick guns and enemy's hats off the ground. this is a great game!

Great Game! Lots of fun and adventure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just picked this game up last night for my PC, and all I can say after several hours of playing it is, "WOW!" This game is a lot of fun, and there is definetly a lot to do and see in this game. I am not a real big fan of adventure games in general, if you can call this an adventure game, but this game is really a lot of fun. This was my first Lego PC game. I have played Lego Star Wars for PS2, and I have the Lego Star Wars game for PC, but have never got around to actually playing it. I have always been a big Indiana Jones fan, and I heard this game was really good, so I went ahead and purchased it. So far, I have have none of the issues that others have had with having problems getting this game to load or run. I am using the Xbox 360 controller for Windows, so maybe that helps. I haven't tried any other controller for this game, so I can't comment on any controller issues. I bought the 360 controller mainly because I know a lot of the Windows games are built around the use of this particular controller. I would guess that LucasArts will eventually come out with the needed patch to use other controllers for this game. I would definetly recommend the 360 controller anyway, it is just the best controller I have ever used for PC games. I am using a computer that I built myself. I have a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, and a PNY GeForce 8500GT 512MB video card. My sound card is a Soundblaster Audigy. The game has paused a couple of times very briefly, but other than that, no problems. I am planning on eventually adding 2 more Gigs of RAM to my system. The graphics and gameplay are awesome! I would imagine that they are at least comparable to the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of this game. I am mainly a PC gamer anyway, I don't even own a 360 or PS3 as of yet. I can't justify spending the kind of money for these consoles when I am just a casual gamer anyway. Anyway, back to the game. This game is one that I would recommend for any Indiana Jones fans, or fans of the Lego series. There is definetly some replay value to this game. I downloaded a strategy guide for the game, so that helps with some of the more challenging parts of the game. The game seems to follow the movies pretty closely, and there is a lot of humor with the various characters in the game as well. I can't wait until September for the Lego Batman game! I give this game a thumbs up! Just make sure your computer is up to snuff and that you have a good processor and video card before purchasing this game. I had all of those things in mind when I built my computer, so no problems with the game on this end. Like I said, the Xbox 360 controller for Windows is almost a must-have if you are going to be playing Windows games on the PC. Fair or not, but this is simply the controller that a lot of the game programmers are using when they design games, as there are a ton of different controllers out there. Bottom line, go get this game!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my youngest son's 9th birthday. He and his 13-year-old brother play for one hour a day in the co-op mode, and would play all afternoon if I let them. He thanks me on a daily basis for what he calls "the best game in the world." My middle son has the Lego Star Wars v. 1 & 2 games, and loves them just as much, so all are winners.

Dispenses with some of the more tedious activities in Lego Star Wars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'll be drawing a lot of comparisons to Lego Star Wars OT in this review. I figure most people that are interested in this title are already familiar with the Star Wars titles.

First and foremost, you are going to want to make sure that your computer can handle the system requirements. This game requires a graphics card with shader model 2.0. Most GPUs in computers these days meet that requirement, but it is best to check beforehand. If you are unsure, a demo of the game is available online. If you can run the demo, you can run the full version of the game.

The game allows the use of the keyboard to control the game, but the controls become somewhat cumbersome during the jumping puzzles. I would also recommend using a gamepad. The game fully supports the X-box 360 controller and many others.

Lego Indy has one commanding plus over Lego Star Wars (L:SW), it is far less tedious. In L:SW, if you wanted to unlock everything the game had to offer you had to revisit each level multiple times. You also had to play all of the levels in story mode all over again one after the next to complete the Super Story mode.

Lego Indy has removed the Super Story mode and the minimum stud collection requirement in Free Play (known as "True Jedi" in L:SW, and "True Adventurer" in Lego Indy). Lego Indy has also lowered the cost of all the unlockables. This makes the game feel much shorter, but also removes some of the more tedious elements found in L:SW. This ends up being a mixed blessing. On one hand I've found that it makes the game very short, on the other hand the game wouldn't be more enjoyable by making stud collection a drawn out process or by making you repeat the same levels over and over again.

As far as puzzles go, Lego Indy uses a combination of digging, repairing, high jumping (the jedi double jump in L:SW), exploding silver barriers, thugee (limited character entry only in L:SW), hieroglyph solving (limited character entry only in L:SW with the added caveat of solving a quick memory game), entering small tunnels (as in L:SW), using the whip to access areas, and guard stations (limited character entry only in L:SW). Power bricks are replaced by finding parcels and a post box to mail them in and there aren't any pure vehicle levels like there were in L:SW.

All the standard cheats that were available in L:SW are also present in Lego Indy. Lego Indy also has many characters that can be unlocked, but this time around they feel more generic, as the Indy universe has less unique characters to work with.

Some of the jumping puzzles are a bit tricky, as the controls are often inconsistent when jumping off ladders and ledges. A few jumping puzzles become frustrating, especially in story mode, as the distance that needs to be jumped is right at the character's jumping distance limit, meaning you'll probably have to try several times before you make that jump. This is especially frustrating in areas where you make several jumps just to miss that last one and have to go through an elaborate sequence to arrive at your next attempt.

There are a few kinks. I found myself in situations where my character would spawn over pits or other obstacles resulting in an endless cycle of dying until you revert control to the other character. Lego Indy also employs a new feature where one character remains stationary, like on a switch or movable block, while the other completes a puzzle or moves the block the other is standing on. The CPU controlled character often has problems staying put and doing what you would expect them to do. In most cases this is just an indication that you are solving puzzles out of sequence, but in some cases it's an obvious bug.

All in all this is a great game, one that shouldn't be missed. Lego Star Wars has the slight edge as far as variety goes, but this game makes up for it in avoiding much of L:SW's tedium.

Average game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i played it on a laptop computer and there were lots of glitches, times where i would have to make changes in the resolotion just to get past a certain point.
It was fun to play but without being able to use arrow keys it was also hard at times.

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