Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Imagine being able to play with Legos without having to get all the pieces. Now you can with Lego Indiana Jones. It takes the fun and creative construction of LEGO and combines it with the wits, daring and non-stop action from the original cinematic adventures. With a tongue-in-cheek take on these original adventures, LEGO Indiana Jones follows Dr. Jones's escapades through the jungles of South America to the mountaintops… Product details and pricing info |
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22 Customer Reviews Posted
- Don't buy it just yet!
- Last Christmas we got our son the Star Wars game and he absolutely loved it! So when this one came out we got it too. Unless you are extremely computer literate, do not buy this game just yet. The game worked great for the first 3 days and after that (as you get higher in the levels) it starts acting up. My husband is a computer wiz, so I have great support at home, but even then it takes hours to figure out what now? The game itself is great, but it's so frustating that for the first time ever I thought about writing a negative review to warn people to wait. Again, this only applies to the Windows PC game.
- 2008-07-01, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- turn down settings
- Its a great continuation of the Lego game series. Like others I had problems getting the game to run properly. After I turned down the settings it runs fine. This game has way more graphics going on than the Star Wars games remember the Star Wars series is a few years old. Makes sense that the newer game would demand more of your computer. Check to make sure your computer is up to snuff and don't assume if you were able to get Lego Star Wars to work fine that Indiana Jones would be the same. Its a fun game, I can't wait for Lego Batman.
- 2008-06-30, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Raid On!
- What a fun game! We bought this as a game for the whole family- it has adventurous appeal to the adults, and the cooperative gameplay feature has allowed our kids to enjoy some time with dad.
We enjoy the wit and funny twists on the Indiana Jones movies. It's a blast to be able to play all the different characters and discover their unique abilities.
Our major disappointment has been how intensive the game is on the video card and memory. We have laptops running at around 1.5Ghz and 500Mb of RAM. The cutscenes were painfully slow to load and there was no option to skip scenes you've already watched. We also discovered we had to turn OFF all the video options to even get the game to play, then found that many of the levels completely grey-out due to the intense graphics, or the program locks up all together. We had to borrow another PC to successfully play the whole game.
Summary: if your PC only meets the minimum req's, think about upgrading before getting this game. Get the game eventually, though, because the hours of laughs and fun adventures are well worth it! - 2008-06-30, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Thinking about buying? Read this FIRST (controller can't "map" to game)
- What a piece of junk. I have a Logitech Precision controller that played PERFECTLY with Lego Star Wars 2. All i had to do is click on it once, and it worked by default. No problem, no maintenance. But not on Indy. Turns out you can't use your controller unless you "map" it onto ALL the possible controls MANUALLY. Come to find out, I run out of buttons on my controller to assign to functions in the game. And so it won't let me "accept" my settings because i have 2 empty slots. I read on some forums that you can assign those useless slots to the keyboard. I tried, you can't. So i can't play the game with a controller. I have to use keyboard. That's stupid. LucasArts, you guys suck. Thankfully I was smart enough to not purchase the game and feel ripped off, i used the demo. LucasArts, you did not and WILL not take my money. I strongly recommend that anyone thinking about buying, play the demo and see if you can use your controller.
- 2008-06-26, 4 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- BUYER BEWARE! Game only supports 19-input controllers!!!
- Dads, if you already own LEGO Star Wars I or II, and you are considering getting LEGO Indiana Jones for your kids, you need to know that the minimum requirements have changed, and you may need to decide whether this game is worth $80-$110 (explanation forthcoming)...
The game states on the outside of the box that it "Supports Xbox 360 Controller for Windows". (Little did I know that that meant that it ONLY supports controllers with similar capabilities.)
LEGO Star Wars always worked fine with my two Logitech Attack3 joysticks. But with LEGO Indiana Jones, they have added a number of relatively trivial controls to views that increase the required number of controller inputs to 19.
At configuration time, the game correctly detects my Logitech joysticks and prompts me with flashing line-items to manually configure the 19 control mappings. However, once I have exhausted my options (up-down-left-right-z high-z low-11 buttons), that only maps to 17 of the 19.
Those last two inputs will continue flashing and prevent you from saving your controller configuration, forcing you to exit and use the simpler keyboard interface instead. (If you don't mind paying $30 for a keyboard-controlled video game, more power to you.)
Unfortunately, I am not an expert on joysticks, but just doing basic math, it does not appear that even the high-end Logitech controllers have the 3-dimensions + 13 buttons required to map all 19 controls:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/&cl=us,en
So I can only conclude that in order to recover my $30 investment in this game, I am going to have to buy two XBOX 360 controllers (~$25 used, $40 new from Amazon):
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Controller-for-Windows/dp/B000BT4CF4/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I26VKZVF9O5DA5&colid=NW3NBGNMTM9
So my $30 purchase for one game is looking more like $80-$110. Is this unmarked "prerequisite" a ploy designed to boost sales of XBOX 360 controllers? Decide for yourself...
If you are a consumer who lacks the prerequsite controllers, and are not willing to spend $30 to play with a keyboard interface, I advise you to monitor the LucasArts forums to see if a patch is developed to allow the additional controls to go either unmapped or mapped to the keyboard before purchasing this product:
http://forums.lucasarts.com/forum.jspa?forumID=110
The last thing that I would add is that these kinds of tactics appear to be par for the course for LucasArts, who as of this writing has an "unsatisfactory" rating with the Better Business Bureau:
http://goldengate.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=99&bbb=1116&firm=56045 - 2008-06-21, 8 of 13 people found this review helpful, Rated:
