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I've been an Indy fan all my life, and I can say with full conviction this game is as awesome as the original 80's films and the best game in the series; even better than "The Infernal Machine" that was released way back in 1999. It's also a very nice change of pace after the disappointing "Dial of Destiny" released last year.
Set in 1937, between "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Temple of Doom", Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones (Troy Baker) finds himself drawn into yet another adventure to stop an Axis powers operation set on harnessing an ancient power stemming from the Great Circle that takes him from the Vatican, to Egypt, to China. The story and dialogue is engrossing and exciting and keeps you hooked throughout the game, as do the characters; we have the late Tony Todd as the imposing and mysterious thief Locus, and Alessandra Mastronardi as investigative reporter Gina Lombardi, Indy's female companion who matches him in wits.
The graphics are stunningly beautiful and polished. There are small but impressive details everywhere that make the levels feel complete and alive, like insects in South America or dust clouds and sand particles in Egypt. The levels and environments have massive, breathtaking landscapes you'll have a blast exploring. And with maximum graphics in play, it'll look so real you'll feel like you're watching a whole new Indy movie. There's even a marvelous rendition of the opening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that looks as amazing as it did forty years ago.
I liked the games unique first-person perspective that makes you feel like your truly in Indy's shoes, and it's distinctive not only from previous Indy games, but also from Tomb Raider and Uncharted, which is ironic since both franchises were inspired by Indiana Jones themselves.
The gameplay captures the theme of the films with challenging combat consisting of fist-cuffs, Indy's bullwhip, melee weapons like shovels or hammers, or guns like a Smith & Wesson Mk II revolver, MP28 smg, or Winchester M1897 shotgun. However, using stealth and surprise is generally safer and more encouraged rather than just rushing in guns blazing. Enemy AI isn't all that great and sneaking past them is usually simple enough, but combat can be a pain because drawing a weapon will invoke the same response from your enemies, in which case they will likely overwhelm and kill you. And, as expected for an Indy game, the puzzles are intricate and cleverly designed and necessitate searching for clues and perusing over old documents to solve them and proceed further into the game, just like in the movies.
The soundtrack was composed by Gordy Haab, who based it on John Williams legendary original score. The voice work is wonderful. Troy Baker pulls of a great Harrison Ford impersonation as he voices the titular protagonist, fully capturing his witty and sarcastic personality. The rest of the cast does a great job as well, with Marios Gavrilis as Emmerich Voss, the menacing yet amusing Nazi villain. You'll hear familiar sounds from the movies, like fist strikes and Indy's whip cracking. There's also echoes and eerie noises you'll hear in the caves, tunnels, and temples you explore that will keep you on edge throughout. Everything sounds amazing.
Being released just in time for Christmas, this masterpiece from Bethesda will make a terrific gift not only for Indy fans but adventure game fans everywhere.
Set in 1937, between "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Temple of Doom", Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones (Troy Baker) finds himself drawn into yet another adventure to stop an Axis powers operation set on harnessing an ancient power stemming from the Great Circle that takes him from the Vatican, to Egypt, to China. The story and dialogue is engrossing and exciting and keeps you hooked throughout the game, as do the characters; we have the late Tony Todd as the imposing and mysterious thief Locus, and Alessandra Mastronardi as investigative reporter Gina Lombardi, Indy's female companion who matches him in wits.
The graphics are stunningly beautiful and polished. There are small but impressive details everywhere that make the levels feel complete and alive, like insects in South America or dust clouds and sand particles in Egypt. The levels and environments have massive, breathtaking landscapes you'll have a blast exploring. And with maximum graphics in play, it'll look so real you'll feel like you're watching a whole new Indy movie. There's even a marvelous rendition of the opening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that looks as amazing as it did forty years ago.
I liked the games unique first-person perspective that makes you feel like your truly in Indy's shoes, and it's distinctive not only from previous Indy games, but also from Tomb Raider and Uncharted, which is ironic since both franchises were inspired by Indiana Jones themselves.
The gameplay captures the theme of the films with challenging combat consisting of fist-cuffs, Indy's bullwhip, melee weapons like shovels or hammers, or guns like a Smith & Wesson Mk II revolver, MP28 smg, or Winchester M1897 shotgun. However, using stealth and surprise is generally safer and more encouraged rather than just rushing in guns blazing. Enemy AI isn't all that great and sneaking past them is usually simple enough, but combat can be a pain because drawing a weapon will invoke the same response from your enemies, in which case they will likely overwhelm and kill you. And, as expected for an Indy game, the puzzles are intricate and cleverly designed and necessitate searching for clues and perusing over old documents to solve them and proceed further into the game, just like in the movies.
The soundtrack was composed by Gordy Haab, who based it on John Williams legendary original score. The voice work is wonderful. Troy Baker pulls of a great Harrison Ford impersonation as he voices the titular protagonist, fully capturing his witty and sarcastic personality. The rest of the cast does a great job as well, with Marios Gavrilis as Emmerich Voss, the menacing yet amusing Nazi villain. You'll hear familiar sounds from the movies, like fist strikes and Indy's whip cracking. There's also echoes and eerie noises you'll hear in the caves, tunnels, and temples you explore that will keep you on edge throughout. Everything sounds amazing.
Being released just in time for Christmas, this masterpiece from Bethesda will make a terrific gift not only for Indy fans but adventure game fans everywhere.
Apparently, this was based on a free, obscure Flash game created in 1998 and somehow, the creators thought it had potential for a movie almost ten years later. They were very mistaken, because the result was one of the worst computer-animated Christmas movies of all time.
Here's the story: Pirate siblings, Santa (Joe Alaskey) and Dingle (Tom Kenny), make a living stealing and selling toys aboard their ship. Soon, though, they are mutinied and thrown overboard. After winding up at the North Pole, the brothers plan to steal and sell all the toys the elves there have made. Eventually, to nobody's surprise, Dingle seeks to overthrow his brother and take over Christmas. So now, the two siblings compete in an Elf bowling match to determine who will be the head honcho of Christmas.
Admittingly, on paper, the plot had potential. The idea of Santa Claus starting off as a bad guy, then gradually learning the importance of giving until he becomes the jolly figure of Christmas sounds interesting and might have worked if handled properly. But instead, the creators ruined it all when they chose to mix it with "Elf Bowling". Speaking of which, bowling doesn't even take up a large part of the movie, it's just a plot device to invoke the final showdown between Santa and Dingle.
Granted, I've seen worse animation in "Sir Billi" and "Foodfight!", both released later in 2012, but it still sucked here and looked about ten years out of date. The character models all had shoddy designs, poorly textured faces that looked as though their skin was made of wax, and their movements were jerky and erratic. The Elves looked the worst with their small beady eyes, oversized cheekbones, and huge pointy noses.
The dialogue is boring and disgusting, with lines like: "Who pooped in the peanut butter?". And there's way too much innuendo for a PG movie, like: "Brother, you keep your hot strudel in your pants." Plus, despite a notable voice cast being involved, all the voice acting and singing was annoying. I guess they spent most of the budget hiring Tom Kenny to lend his voice, but all we hear is him using his Patchy the Pirate voice for Dingle.
I can't believe it cost $6.5 million to make this, because in the end, this was just a humorless, poorly made, 80-minute-long advertisement for a flash game that was unwanted and unnecessary. It had no redeeming qualities and no Christmas charm or spirit. Except for "The Christmas Light" and "Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa", this was the crappiest computer animated Christmas movie I've ever seen, and I'm irritated that I wasted my time watching it.
Here's the story: Pirate siblings, Santa (Joe Alaskey) and Dingle (Tom Kenny), make a living stealing and selling toys aboard their ship. Soon, though, they are mutinied and thrown overboard. After winding up at the North Pole, the brothers plan to steal and sell all the toys the elves there have made. Eventually, to nobody's surprise, Dingle seeks to overthrow his brother and take over Christmas. So now, the two siblings compete in an Elf bowling match to determine who will be the head honcho of Christmas.
Admittingly, on paper, the plot had potential. The idea of Santa Claus starting off as a bad guy, then gradually learning the importance of giving until he becomes the jolly figure of Christmas sounds interesting and might have worked if handled properly. But instead, the creators ruined it all when they chose to mix it with "Elf Bowling". Speaking of which, bowling doesn't even take up a large part of the movie, it's just a plot device to invoke the final showdown between Santa and Dingle.
Granted, I've seen worse animation in "Sir Billi" and "Foodfight!", both released later in 2012, but it still sucked here and looked about ten years out of date. The character models all had shoddy designs, poorly textured faces that looked as though their skin was made of wax, and their movements were jerky and erratic. The Elves looked the worst with their small beady eyes, oversized cheekbones, and huge pointy noses.
The dialogue is boring and disgusting, with lines like: "Who pooped in the peanut butter?". And there's way too much innuendo for a PG movie, like: "Brother, you keep your hot strudel in your pants." Plus, despite a notable voice cast being involved, all the voice acting and singing was annoying. I guess they spent most of the budget hiring Tom Kenny to lend his voice, but all we hear is him using his Patchy the Pirate voice for Dingle.
I can't believe it cost $6.5 million to make this, because in the end, this was just a humorless, poorly made, 80-minute-long advertisement for a flash game that was unwanted and unnecessary. It had no redeeming qualities and no Christmas charm or spirit. Except for "The Christmas Light" and "Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa", this was the crappiest computer animated Christmas movie I've ever seen, and I'm irritated that I wasted my time watching it.
While binge watching and reviewing bad Christmas movies this December, I vaguely remembered watching this one a few years ago out of morbid fascination. This wasn't even a full-length movie. It's just 22 minutes of low-quality computer animated garbage that looked as though it were made by a class of middle-schoolers who somehow got their hands on computer animation technology.
Here's the story: Santa Claus is facing production troubles at the North Pole. His most brilliant elf, Burton, invents a machine that malfunctions and transforms him into an evil snowman, who promptly creates a huge blizzard that threatens Christmas. What follows is a bitter battle between Santa and the Snowman until a girl named Jennifer intervenes and resurrects Burton by singing a lame song about the "Christmas Light". That's it.
I know this was made in 1995 when computer animated media was just entering the entertainment industry, but even for that time period, the animation was horrible. By comparison, the earliest episodes of ReBoot, Beast Wars, and VeggieTales were head and shoulders above this trash and whoever said this was as good as Toy Story was completely full of it. All of the environments are barren and plain looking. The North Pole itself looks more like a prison complex than a toy factory. The character designs look like lumpy clay figures with spindly noodle arms that were created in a kindergarten art class, and their movements were sluggish and jerky. Everything in this movie just feels so soulless and boring, it'll make you yawn.
The voice acting is terrible, and this was the only role nearly all of the so-called "actors" ever got. Isaac and Santa Claus both sound bored as they muttered their lines in bored monotones, even when they're in danger. Burton/Snowman was only marginally better with his hammy villainy. The only half-decent voice acting comes from Dan Haggerty (RIP) as the narrator.
None of the characters are interesting or likeable. Santa himself is a complete jerk who joins Isaac in bullying Burton, kidnaps Jennifer, and even tries to kill him. What kind of crummy Christmas movie would have such an uncharacteristically nasty Santa and expect kids to enjoy it? Neither he nor Isaac even apologized to Burton in the end for pretty much causing the whole mess in the first place by abusing him.
In the end, this was a disaster that failed everywhere Toy Story succeeded. Everything here was terrible; the animation, dialogue, sounds, story, and character designs. This didn't even deliver any meaningful holiday message or moral, except that there is good in everyone, but it falls completely flat. I truly pity any kid unfortunate enough to have watched this, the first and one of the worst, computer animated Christmas movies ever created.
Here's the story: Santa Claus is facing production troubles at the North Pole. His most brilliant elf, Burton, invents a machine that malfunctions and transforms him into an evil snowman, who promptly creates a huge blizzard that threatens Christmas. What follows is a bitter battle between Santa and the Snowman until a girl named Jennifer intervenes and resurrects Burton by singing a lame song about the "Christmas Light". That's it.
I know this was made in 1995 when computer animated media was just entering the entertainment industry, but even for that time period, the animation was horrible. By comparison, the earliest episodes of ReBoot, Beast Wars, and VeggieTales were head and shoulders above this trash and whoever said this was as good as Toy Story was completely full of it. All of the environments are barren and plain looking. The North Pole itself looks more like a prison complex than a toy factory. The character designs look like lumpy clay figures with spindly noodle arms that were created in a kindergarten art class, and their movements were sluggish and jerky. Everything in this movie just feels so soulless and boring, it'll make you yawn.
The voice acting is terrible, and this was the only role nearly all of the so-called "actors" ever got. Isaac and Santa Claus both sound bored as they muttered their lines in bored monotones, even when they're in danger. Burton/Snowman was only marginally better with his hammy villainy. The only half-decent voice acting comes from Dan Haggerty (RIP) as the narrator.
None of the characters are interesting or likeable. Santa himself is a complete jerk who joins Isaac in bullying Burton, kidnaps Jennifer, and even tries to kill him. What kind of crummy Christmas movie would have such an uncharacteristically nasty Santa and expect kids to enjoy it? Neither he nor Isaac even apologized to Burton in the end for pretty much causing the whole mess in the first place by abusing him.
In the end, this was a disaster that failed everywhere Toy Story succeeded. Everything here was terrible; the animation, dialogue, sounds, story, and character designs. This didn't even deliver any meaningful holiday message or moral, except that there is good in everyone, but it falls completely flat. I truly pity any kid unfortunate enough to have watched this, the first and one of the worst, computer animated Christmas movies ever created.