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Until then, it is as good a time as ever to look back on the famous film archeologist's history in gaming through the lens of length. The games in the series below are ranked from shortest to longest, according to times taken from . The Indiana Jones games are typically on the short end relative to other video games. Hopefully, the upcoming project boasts a beefier runtime.
10 The Last Crusade (4 Hours) ๊
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:This curt side-scrolling adventure came out in 1989 on almost every system under the sun, including many computers. Such platformers were par for the course on the NES, but most computers were not as good at running side-scrolling ga♚mes. This shows when comparing different versions of the adaptation. The NES version scrolls smoother and looks better in general, while the Commodore 64 version looks and feels heavier.
9 Indiana Jones And His Desktop A🙈dventures (4 Hours)
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures switches thi🐓ngs up from the traditional adventure game formula by adding in random elements and featuring combat The enemy placements and item locations are randomly generated, ensuring a different experience each time. Some appreciated the random mechanic, while others criticized its simplicity and poor use of the license. Without a whip and a hat, the game is unrecognizable as a part of Indiana Jones.
8 ꦫ The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (5 1/2 Hours)
SCUMM was a graphics engine utilized to make some of LucasArts most notable adventure games such as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Secret of Monkey Island and Full Throttle. Indiana Jones also got in on the fun with T♕he L﷽ast Crusade: The Graphic Adventure.
While it may only be listed as just over five hours to beat, this will vary greatly depending on your aptitude towards puzzle-intensive adventure games. These 90s titles also lack many modern gaming conventions, refusing to hold players' hands through the story.
7 Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventure (7 Hours)
Super Star Wars was a classic, and extremely difficult, side-scrolling action game for the SNES. Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventure tried a similar thing with the Indiana Jones film franchise, instead compressing the whole franchise into a single game instead of making a trilogy. Factor 5 developed this title, which would start a relationship with LucasFilm, leading to classics like the Nintendo 64 and GameCube's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Rogue Squadron series. Unfortunately, Factor 5 no longer exists.
6 Fate Of Atlantis (7 Hours) 𓃲 ൲
Designed using the SCUMM engine, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis i💝s a successor to The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. Instead of retelling the plot from the film, this game tells its own story, partly penned by novelist and screenwriter Hal Barwood. A year after the initial release, a CD-Rom version with voiceover was released. It is both critically and commercially one of the most successful LucasArts adventure games.
5 🉐 Staff Of Kings (9 Hours) ♊
An Indiana Jones game was announced for the Xbox 360 and PS3 before it was quietly cancelled several years later. It looked to take full advantage of the upcoming tech, including a special physics engine later utilized for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto IV. In the cancelled game's place we got The Staff of Kings for the Wii and PS2, which was underwhelming in every way. The Wii version in particular was lambasted for its motion controls.
4 🐲 Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (10 Hours)
Before every franchise under the sun was turned into Lego game, Lego Indiana Jones was one of the few who received the honor shortly after the Lego Star Wars games. The gameplay remains mostly similar to the Star Wars Lego titles, only covering the events of the first three Indiana Jonඣes films. Voiceover was also not included, with cutscenes instead humorously miming out the events of the movies. The title is simple, but relaxing.
3 ๊ Lego I♏ndiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (10 Hours)
Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues includes levels based on The Kingdom of theꦜ Crystal Skull in addition to redesigned levels from theꦛ original trilogy.
Critics were split on this one because it felt too repetitive and the additional levels were based on what many consider the worst movie in the saga. Certain🀅 additions like split-screen co-op instead of sharing the screen and a level creator were points of universal praise, however.
2 Emperor's Tomb (11 1/2 Hours)
Released on the original Xbox, PS2, and PC, Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb is set between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom. However, it has little connection to either film except for the ending leading directly into Temple of Doom's first scene. The game was well-received upon release, though it has not aged well since games like Tomb Raider: Legend and the Uncharted franchise have since perfected and smoothed out the action-adventure game formula.
1 ꦯ 🧔 Infernal Machine (16 1/2 Hours)
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine came out on Windows, Nintendo 64, and the Game Boy Color. Of course, the latter system's release is vastly different than the prior two. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The gameplay greatly resembl♓es T🌠omb Raider, which makes sense considering the two's shared archeological ambitions. For its time, the game did a good job of embracing its narrative, and puzzle-solving is more at the forefront of gameplay than combat. Some criticism were aimed at it being too similar to Tomb Raider, however.