Am I an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones fan? That's hard to tell these days. Back when I was a kid it was easy - there were three Indiana Jones movies that I liked, therefore I was an Indiana Jones fan. Since then, there have been two more that I actively disliked, leaving the score at 3-2. It's a full count, bottom of the ninth, bases are loaded, and The Great Circle is at the plate. From what Xbox just showed us, even if it's not a homerun it's at least on for some RBIs.

If you got a little lost in the sports metaphor there, I'm saying I think the game looked good. I'm naturally wary of first-person games due to a preference for third-person, but MachineGames' 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wolfenstein titles are exceptions to this rule, which bodes well for Indy. I also take the point that all action-adventure games can feel quite similar, and first-person offers a different approach to something like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Uncharted, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider, and Horizon. Mostly, the first-person angle ꩵworks because it feels original.

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The Great Circle is a bit of a rubbish title in comparison to the Temple of Doom, but the reasoning behind it (major historical landmarks lining up in a circle) does make a lot of sense. What's more, it's the classic action pulp plot we love Indy for, hopefully without time travel or aliens in there. An equally pulpy name like the Sphere of Chaos or the Ring of Conspiracy might have worked better, but then the Dial of Destiny fits the bill and even before it warped us backwards in time there was something off about it. You're just never going to beat the Temple of Doom and we'll all just have to live with it.

It feels like an interesting experiment for gaming, one that will soon be followed by IO's 007 game. We know that the movie business is looking to adapt video games, with Sonic, Mario, and Uncharted proving a success, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Minecraft, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima, and perhaps most surprisingly, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Until Dawn all in various stages of development. But once this moved in the other direction - movie tie-ins we🍬re as reliable a genre as military shooters. As development times ballooned, these could no longer be made consistently, and thus they faded away.

Since Mad Max in 2015, itself a mid-budget and relatively low-key release, most gaming adaptations have been based on comic book movies which, you guessed it, are themselves based on comic books. Things like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man bring in fans from the movies, but they also bring in fans of superheroes as a monolith. Indiana Jones, while an iconic character, is far more standalone. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Bond, t𒁏hou🔥gh technically based on the original novels, is the same.

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I hope we see more of these movie adaptations, not made to hit any cinematic release but simply looking at a beloved world from the movies and thinking 'we can tell a story that enriches that world'. People can often be protective against adaptations, and it's true that, done poorly, they can seem like cash grabs. But movies and games sharing ideas shouldn't be any different from adapting from books. If you celebrate the material and want to bring it to life, that should be embraced. Knives Out, Scream, Jaws, Sin City, Die Hard, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Matrix, Leon, Gladiator, Akira, Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield, True Grit, The Babysitter, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Hunger Games are j🔜ust some of my favourite movies that could work well for video games.

Yes, some of these originated as something other than a movie, and yes, several of them have already had video games. But that shouldn't stop us looking at them again. They haven't stopped doing Shakespeare productions just because they've all been done - and yes, I did compare The Babysitter to Shakespeare and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Lady Macbeth has nothing on Bee.

What you need is either a character who can go on repeated adventures (Indiana Jones, Spider-Man), or a concept that allows you to expand beyond the confines of the movie (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jurassic Park, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars). As long as you have just one of those two things, you can become a video game without it needing to be a beat-for-beat retelling. Indiana Jones is not the first to do this, but it is the first time it feels like a pattern forming, and I hope the adaptation relationship can be as fruitful for gaming as it has been for the box office. Now give 'em hell, MachineGames!