Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Video Review – Xbox Game Pass and PC
It’s finally happened, a high-quality, polished, great looking day one Game Pass game.
What you might be expecting from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, is Uncharted or Tomb Raider… or maybe a first-person shooter or role-playing game. I mean, that’s what we’re used to, right?
Indiana Jones is none of these things and based on my experience after spending time playing it, that’s what makes it so interesting.
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As you embark on your globe-trotting adventure of danger and mystery, major areas of the game don’t just move the story along but provide various mysteries and side missions for you to investigate and explore.
Raiders of a Lost Art
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a smart, detailed, good looking, smooth running, immersive adventure game, that makes me feel like I’m playing a modern reboot of what the old PC point and click adventure genre might have become.
It’s not a first person shooter and it’s not a first person RPG, it really is an adventure game, and involves a bit of stealth and devious deception, as well as some head bonking and occasional gun violence –– but the real treasure of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the hands-on discovery and puzzles solving, and how it really makes you feel like you’re in the boots of Dr. Henry Jones himself.
The Temple of Doom Eternal
Because of its high PC spec requirements, I went in assuming that this would probably be 30fps on my Xbox Series X, with a potentially ugly looking performance option, but I’ve been completely bowled over by highly detailed characters, locations and overall graphics – somehow all being pulled off with sharp resolutions, a silky-smooth frame rate and unexpectedly responsive controls.
It’s made me completely rethink where other games should be at this point in the console generation.
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Is it for You?
It’s worth saying outright that if you’re going in wanting Uncharted or a first-person shooter– then you either need to give this a skip or open your mind to its approach. Also, if you’re just here because you’re a fan of Indiana Jones movies, then I recommend you jump in because you’re in for a treat.
VERDICT: I’m really enjoying Indiana Jones and the Great Circle; the game has its big moments, but it’s not afraid to move at a slow pace and dig into the details, so, sure… you can really give it a skip if you’re sure that you’re just not into that.
Considering everything I just said, and the fact that you can play it for next-to-nothing on Game Pass I’d be quite surprised if your curiosity didn’t get the better of you, and if it did, you’ve already got more in common with Dr. Jones than you realise.
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From Bethesda:
“Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark™ and The Last Crusade™. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones™. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.”
More about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on the Bethesda website: https://indianajones.bethesda.net/
