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dougsdad0629 on 14 June 2009

God I love Indiana Jones!  I was so excited a few years back when I heard about the game that was supposed to be coming to the PS3 and 360.  The idea of the physics engine that Lucasarts demo'd combined with Indiana Jones adventuring, fisticuffs, whip-play and gunplay sounded like heaven.  Then, they got cancelled in favor of the Wii version.  I was still excited.  Sure I'd have to lose the uber-physics, but I thought it would be really cool to play Indy with motion controls, especially for the whip.  Now we find out the Wii game sucks.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/994/994513p1.html

I'm pretty pissed all around.  I don't know about you.



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Gearbox on 14 June 2009

i dont mind to much, uncharted killed Indiana jones and lara croft games. and it deserved to kill them. its a WAYYY better franchise and no Indiana jones game veer came close to its greatness



Samus Aran on 14 June 2009

Wait... You expected a good game from Lucas arts?

Why were you hyped? The only thing worth being hyped from Lucasarts is a star wars game with wiimotion+



marktheshark275 on 14 June 2009

Were there even HD versions in development?

Well, I wonder if the PS2 version is any better? Fully read the review by the way.



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Cactus on 14 June 2009
Gearbox said:
i dont mind to much, uncharted killed Indiana jones and lara croft games. and it deserved to kill them. its a WAYYY better franchise and no Indiana jones game veer came close to its greatness

Fate of Atlantis



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alfredofroylan on 14 June 2009

I'm a Indy fan and honestly I don't care much. A HD game isn't a guarantee of a better version, remember Hulk and Force Unleash for example. For me the only 2 good Indy games were fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones Trilogy for the SNES.



dougsdad0629 on 14 June 2009
alfredofroylan said:
I'm a Indy fan and honestly I don't care much. A HD game isn't a guarantee of a better version, remember Hulk and Force Unleash for example. For me the only 2 good Indy games were fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones Trilogy for the SNES.

I don't mean that an HD version is guaranteed better.  I just mean that obviously traditional controls would probably have fared better in this instance.  Plus, we could have gotten all of those cool physics and some great graphics.  This game is proof that not everything needs motion control.  I would have been happy with a Wii game whose only motion control was for the whip with some IR for the gunplay.  Everything else could have been set aside in favor of traditional controls.



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Millennium on 14 June 2009

IGN reviews are worthless. Just another blatantly biased reviewer whihnig because the Wii doesn't do the HD gimmick.



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alfredofroylan on 14 June 2009
dougsdad0629 said:

I don't mean that an HD version is guaranteed better.  I just mean that obviously traditional controls would probably have fared better in this instance.  Plus, we could have gotten all of those cool physics and some great graphics.  This game is proof that not everything needs motion control.  I would have been happy with a Wii game whose only motion control was for the whip with some IR for the gunplay.  Everything else could have been set aside in favor of traditional controls.

Again the cool graphics and physics guarantee nothing (And again, remember Force Unleash, the cool graphics and physics brings us a repetitive game with a silly plot line around Darth Vader adopting a kid). Anyway the most important question here is: Have you played Indiana Jones on the Wii??



dougsdad0629 on 14 June 2009
alfredofroylan said:
dougsdad0629 said:

I don't mean that an HD version is guaranteed better.  I just mean that obviously traditional controls would probably have fared better in this instance.  Plus, we could have gotten all of those cool physics and some great graphics.  This game is proof that not everything needs motion control.  I would have been happy with a Wii game whose only motion control was for the whip with some IR for the gunplay.  Everything else could have been set aside in favor of traditional controls.

Again the cool graphics and physics guarantee nothing (And again, remember Force Unleash, the cool graphics and physics brings us a repetitive game with a silly plot line around Darth Vader adopting a kid). Anyway the most important question here is: Have you played Indiana Jones on the Wii??

After a review like that, I doubt I'll play it for a long time until it's $20 or less.  I've found games in the 7 range that I've thoroughly enjoyed and I'd have no problem buying a game at full price rated 7-ish if I was sure it was a type of game I liked.  A game rated 5-ish is a different story altogether.  That's why I'm sad.  I may never end up playing this and I was sooooooooo looking forward to it before I read how poor the controls are.



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