LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues has been flying relatively quiet under the radar, set to hit just about every platform ever on November 20.
The sequel to last year's LEGO Indiana Jones (hence the "2"), the title will cover all four of the films, including the best-forgotten Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. What's that you say? The first game already covered Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade? Fear not -- The Adventure Continues will feature all new content, so there are no repeats here.
The only thing that will look familiar are the game's faithful-yet-humorous takes on key scenes from all four films. The trailer up there gives you an idea of what I'm talking about; Indy fans should get a kick out of it. Go. Watch. Now!
I have no idea how they're going to get enough content out of the first three movies to make this game work. With Temple of Doom they were already stretching it.
And if I may outline the problem with Lego Indiana Jones, it's that with Star Wars or Batman there are so many great, iconic, and above all fun characters to play as that they can throw a lot of scenarios at you, and no matter whose shoes you happen to be in you're more than likely having a good time.
On the other hand, with these games, sure Indy himself rocks, but why would you want to play as anyone else? Seriously, give me, from memory, the actual names of five other Indiana Jones characters. If you managed to do that, bravo, but were they characters you have any interest in playing as for more than thirty seconds? So you spend most of the game playing as Dr. Jones, which gets old rather quickly.
And now I've spent far too much time analyzing the Lego "Whatever" series of games.
The first one was pretty boring. Why would I want to buy it again? Crystal Skull? I'm still having trouble sleeping at night after seeing that one... I still can't believe they let that happen... and no one did anything! They just let it happen! *sob* *sob*
I'll stick with Lego Starwars and even Batman. Will pick up Lego Rock Band before this one!
I'm sick of ever idiot-fanboy-writer bashing "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" every chance they get. It wasn't "Raiders" or "Last Crusade" but at the very least it was good as "Temple of Doom" (and no more far-fetched then that outing) and most Gen Xers consider that a classic nowadays. We know you hate Shia because he stole your Transformers collection or something and blah blah nuke the fridge blah blah. Get over it. Get over yourself. It's a good movie and much better then 99% of the crap out there. I'll take it over the new "Star Trek" any day. I prefer my heroes as old men over recasting them with teeny-boppers who can't act.
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8:00 PM on 11.02.2009
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Well 'bout time I got to pull out the ol' Genesis.
And if I may outline the problem with Lego Indiana Jones, it's that with Star Wars or Batman there are so many great, iconic, and above all fun characters to play as that they can throw a lot of scenarios at you, and no matter whose shoes you happen to be in you're more than likely having a good time.
On the other hand, with these games, sure Indy himself rocks, but why would you want to play as anyone else? Seriously, give me, from memory, the actual names of five other Indiana Jones characters. If you managed to do that, bravo, but were they characters you have any interest in playing as for more than thirty seconds? So you spend most of the game playing as Dr. Jones, which gets old rather quickly.
And now I've spent far too much time analyzing the Lego "Whatever" series of games.
I'll stick with Lego Starwars and even Batman. Will pick up Lego Rock Band before this one!