INDIANA JONES AND THE EMPEROR'S TOMB

GAME DETAILS :-

Developer : The Collective, Inc

Publisher : LucasArts

Engine : Slayer

Genre : Modern Action Adventure

Release Date : March 25 , 2003

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS :-

Operating System : Windows 98 / Windows 2000

CPU : AMD Athlon Classic K75 / Intel Pentium III Processor

Memory (RAM) : 128 MB

Graphics Hardware : DirectX 8.1 Compatible Video Card with Memory 32 MB

[NVIDIA : GeForce 3 Ti Series
ATI : Radeon 8500 Series]

Hard Disk Space : 1.80 GB

GAME FEATURES :-

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb begins in the jungles of Ceylon, where Indiana Jones is searching for the idol of Kouru Watu. After retrieving the idol, Indy meets a Nazi named Albrecht Von Beck, who is attacked by a giant alligator, allowing Jones to escape. Back at school, Chinese officials Marshall Kai Ti Chan and his assistant Mei Ying inform Dr. Jones of the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl buried with the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. Mei Ying breaks open the Ceylon idol to find the first piece of the "Mirror of Dreams", an artifact that will help navigate through the Emperor's Tomb and reveal the entrance to Huangdi's crypt. Indy flies to a castle in Prague to acquire the second piece of the mirror, only to be captured by Von Beck and his men. Jones wakes up in a cell in Istanbul when Mei Ying appears and frees him. He makes his way to the sunken palace of Belisarius to collect the final piece of the mirror. Mei Ying appears again and tells him that Kai is working with the Nazis to get the Mirror for himself and control the Heart of the Dragon. At the Golden Lotus Opera House in Hong Kong, Mei Ying and Indy wait for Wu Han, a character from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. When Mei Ying is kidnapped by Kai's men, Indy and Wu Han chase them down to the dock, where they discover that they are heading to Kai's private island. Wu Han and Indy follow them in a junk. Indy makes his way to the peak of Penglai Mountain, the site of the Black Dragon Fortress, where he finds Mei Ying guarded by the Feng twins, Kai's female bodyguards. After killing the twins, he falls down a shaft into the temple of Kong Tien, where he finds a magical Chinese boomerang-like weapon called the Pa Cheng. Indy finds Kai assembling the Mirror of Dreams and sacrificing Mei Ying to the demon, Kong Tien, who possesses Mei Ying. Indy frees her and escapes with the mirror to the Emperor's Tomb. In the temple, Indy escapes from Von Beck, who is pursuing in a tank, and enters a portal to the Netherworld. After crossing a Netherworld Great Wall Of China, he finally finds Huangdi's crypt and the body of Qin Shi Huangdi. When Indy takes the Heart of the Dragon, the emperor awakens, and Kai takes the pearl from Jones. He uses its power to summon a dragon to battle Indy, creating a shield to protect himself. Jones uses the Pa Cheng to penetrate the shield and destroy the Heart of the Dragon, at that moment Kai loses control of the dragon, then spirits of his victims rise and mistake Kai as the first Emperor of China, Indiana Jones and Mei Ying flee, as Kai is eaten by the dragon. Back in Hong Kong, Wu Han reminds Indy that Lao Che has hired them to find the remains of Nurhachi, leading into the opening of Temple of Doom.

The game always lets you know where, exactly, you'll need to do this by showing a whip icon on the screen when you're in position. Similarly, you'll see a knife icon when it's time to hack through thick vines, a switch icon when there's something for you to pull, and an explosion icon when you're near a spot that requires you to plant explosives. When any of these icons are up, an inventory button lets you quickly yank out the necessary item. While this helps make the game a lot easier than it would be without them, at other times the occasionally unclear level design obscures some things that you'd otherwise need to see for yourself in order to proceed. While the combat isn't terribly deep, it can still be incredibly satisfying. Indy's punches, kicks, and grabs are exaggerated like in an action movie, giving you the impression that he's really beating the hell out of his foes. You can also find and use a variety of firearms and makeshift weapons like chairs, and the game even has a grappling system, which lets you get in a few punches or shove people up against walls or over the edges of cliffs, where you'll hear them go screaming down to their doom. You'll still see a few instances where Indy or his foes will clip through walls, but overall, the game runs at a smooth frame rate and looks good and feels like a much more "finished" product than its Xbox counterpart. The animation for the fighting is done nicely and helps make the combat seem convincing. The game's textures are sharp, though they do occasionally become a little repetitive. The game's music does a good job of conveying the Indiana Jones-like feel. The soundalike used for Indiana Jones himself does a convincing enough job of sounding like Harrison Ford's take on the character, but you probably won't ever mistake the stand-in for the real deal. Some of the other voices don't fare so well. Indiana Jones fans will find a lot to like in the Emperor's Tomb. While the game's control issues will take you a good hour or so to get comfortable with, the puzzles and combat come together nicely and make for a pretty good action game. Experienced action players may find the game and its puzzles to be a bit on the easy side, but there's definitely some fun to be had here, and Indiana Jones fans will likely appreciate the way their favorite archeologist is represented in the game.

GAME REVIEW :-

7/10

Indiana Jones And The Emperor's Tomb Trailer :-