It so happened that the long-awaited title based on the adventures of the most famous archaeologist in the history of cinema, Indiana Jones and the Great Circlepremiered last week just as The Game Awards were being held, in which Astro Bot It won the award for best game of the year, so it did not enter the competition. Well To make it look good, since it was one of the most anticipated premieres of the year, it was Harrison Ford himself who was in charge of presenting the award for best performance to the actress Melina Juergens, in charge of playing the protagonist of Senua‘s Saga: Hellblade 2.
The Great Circle is the subtitle of this story, which without a doubt is going to become the most reliable archaeologist adventure that a player can face. Not only because of the wonderful treatment of the settings in terms of setting, graphics, lights, particles suspended in the air and all the luxury of details of the historical places that we will visit located in the year 1936. The characters shine with their own light and the protagonist’s face is copied from the films, as well as the movements and physical reactions. A cinematographic work that pays homage to the films from the first sequence.
The twists in the script and the number of mysteries that we must gradually discover enrich and increase the durability of the game, both in the main mission that takes us from the university where Indy works to the Vatican, the Himalayas and Giza, and in the varied amount of secondary objectives that little by little are added to the list as we interact with new characters in the story. Disrupting the plot is unnecessary because Indiana Jones fans already know what they are going to find, including the Nazis.
A game with a constant rhythm that never gets boring, always having at hand a package of objectives and missions to complete according to the player’s taste, because Once the adventure has advanced, we can return to any of the locations investigated to complete the objectives that we left along the way.whether due to lack of some type of information, the need to obtain a certain object or for the simple pleasure of changing the environment if we encounter a mission.
The prestigious archaeologist has no shortage of work, puzzles of all kinds, surrounded by mystery and featuring symbols, relics, treasure boxes or statuettes like the cat, thanks to which Dr. Jones takes action after his first encounter with a huge and mysterious enemy that has sneaked into the university where our protagonist is a famous professor. That will be the first contact with the moments of action based on punches that seem somewhat crude. Especially when it is a first-person title, one of the characteristics that has sparked the most controversy.
And, although the first-person view guarantees us an unparalleled visual spectacle, being able to choose between a cinematic view or a panoramic view, Finding yourself facing enemies that are too close limits attack movements, sometimes leaving us at the mercy of executing the desired movement with precision. In any case, it’s all about getting the hang of it and adapting to melee, for which it is best to maintain a minimum distance from the enemies before hitting them and even more so before using our whip, the most valuable utensil not only in combat. combats, but also as a vine to jump over obstacles or as a climbing rope.
Indiana can disguise himself to go unnoticed and each disguise has only one weapon, but we can also use those that the enemies have dropped, although without the possibility of saving them for another time. Tool management is carried out with the crosshead, being slow in moments of action such as when we want to use bandages to heal ourselves. Better to anticipate dangerous situations, because in the middle of the fray we will be fodder for the enemy who, on the other hand, fortunately has quite clumsy artificial intelligence so that they do not eliminate us and we will have to start from the last save point.
In his long wandering, Dr. Jones will be able to buy various text booklets that some characters treasure and that They will give you useful skills in the adventure, such as resistance to some attacks, etc. A video game that has absolutely everything that a great single-player adventure should have, from funny moments to moments of anguish such as during the exploration of the underworld in which a server got stuck on a pile of stones from the catacombs, a lot of action in which we can also use stealth, a lot of information in the form of documents and maps to study and get more involved in the plot and a detailed recreation of real scenarios that truly takes away the sense.
Lovers of franchises like Tomb Raider o Uncharted They have a new video game to spend a lot of time racking their brains while they decipher mysterious puzzles or perform stunts hanging from a plane in mid-flight, holding on to Indiana Jones’s whip. And to round out the title, the soundtrack that also shinesintroducing us to the cinematographic universe of the most famous archaeologist in action movies.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle It is available for Xbox series, gamepass and PC.
