Indiana Jones and The Great Circle has been revealed
As part of the latest Xbox Developer_Direct stream, MachineGames has shared a look at their Indiana Jones game with behind the scenes developer chat and a first gameplay reveal.
It’s a first person action adventure Set between Raiders and Last Crusade, and includes characters from the original film returning including Doctor Marcus Brody, originally played by Denholm Elliott. Doctor Jones is working at Marshall College but wakes up to find a thief stealing a sacred relic. He then heads to Vatican to figure out why that one particular relic was stolen. From there the story will take players to Sukhothai, the Pyramids, the Himalayas and beyond
The iconic whip can be used for attacking or swimming around the locations and there will be plenty of puzzles for Indy to solve. The game will swap to third person when certain actions are preformed, such as climbing.
Indy is joined by Gina, am intrepid reporter, and they will be facing off against Voss, the Nazi we see Indy headbutt in the first few moments. The game will be released this year but no specific date has been given.
The Indiana Jones game was announced back in early 2021, during the grey period between Microsoft agreeing to acquire Bethesda and completing the deal in March 2021. As such there was plenty of speculation how they would handle this game in terms of exclusivity at the time. In the end, it was confirmed during the Microsoft – Activision Blizzard acquisition that Indiana Jones will be an Xbox console exclusive, as part of the FTC court case against the blockbusting buyout.
Indiana Jones is no stranger to video games, with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis one of the many point & click adventures that LucasArts released in the early 90s. There were plenty of other efforts as well, but the next games that really stood out were 1999’s Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and 2003’s Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb.
Following that, LucasArts were experimenting with new game engines in the mid-2000s for
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