Machine Games and Xbox finally gave us a look at their new Indiana Jones Game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s been a few years since Machine Games’ last release and even longer since a good Indiana Jones game.
The Tomb Raider franchise has as storied a history in gaming as Indy does in film. The recent rebooted trilogy from Square Enix keeps the fun exploration of the original titles while adding a needed overhaul to combat and story.
Machine Games revamped the Wolfenstein franchise with their 2014 game The New Order, but their follow-up in 2017 was an improvement in almost every way.
It’s always fun to shoot Nazis as BJ Blastowich, and The New Colossus delivers this fun in spades. Combine the tight first-person shooting mechanics with a truly engaging masterpiece, and you have one of the best Wolfenstein games in the long-running series.
The Indiana Jones films heavily inspire the Uncharted series. We think the second game in the series is the best, but the fourth game is an easy entry point and a great way to get ready for the Great Circle.
Uncharted 4 concludes Nathan Drake’s journey and gives the hero a fitting send-off. After a decade of games, Naughty Dogs‘ final Nathan Drake adventure perfects the combat and delivers the best story of the series.
Pitfall! is pretty dated by today’s standards. The controls are quite clunky, and the visuals are exactly what you’d expect from an Atari 2600 game. That doesn’t mean it can’t still be a fun time and a game completed in a short afternoon.