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Lego: Indiana Jones (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Activision
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 848
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: action-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 023272006693
EAN: 5050053598004
ASIN: B0014FDVPQ
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures takes the fun and creative construction of LEGO and combines it with the wits, daring and non-stop action from the original cinematic adventures that enthralled audiences everywhere (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). With a unique tongue-in-cheek take on the original adventures, LEGO Indiana Jones follows Dr. Jones escapades through the jungles of South America to the mountaintops of India. Fans can build, battle and brawl their way through their favorite cinematic moments, from Indy's entanglements with snakes to his dashing boulder run. Of course, pop culture's most iconic archeologist will whip through all the classic moments with the help of a host of supporting characters including Marion Ravenwood and Short Round. Players can also mix and match the body parts of more than 60 playable characters to create new heroes just as they could in the best-selling LEGO Star Wars games.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Great addition to the series! June 15, 2008
MrsGoggins
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game retains everything that made the Star Wars games great and importantly adds so much more.
I am afraid I have to disagree with the previous reviewer, my Xbox 360 controller works with it perfectly and the load times are less than two minutes and bearing in mind my PC is over 4 years old (although admittedly the graphics card was upgraded 6 months ago) it seems to me that the problems are not with the game.
Graphics are beautiful, gameplay is charming and the LEGO take on the stories is very amusing.
 Indiana we have a problem! June 26, 2008
Mr. Brian John Merritt (Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Great game but beset with technical problems. Basically I can install the game and play it once as soon as I have installed it, but after that point pretty much every time I launch the game, either by using the start command on the disk launcher window or the desktop shortcut, I am presented with a black screen. This is not quite the same as a blank screen because the input light is on and there is computer activity, but the screen itself is just black. No combination of keys will bring me back to my desktop, so I have to do a manual reset to reboot the computer. My first suspicion was that there was a problem with my Logitech Dual Action gamepad. I had downloaded the latest drivers from the Logitech website and checked that the game supported dual analogue game controllers, but I found that the game tended to launch more often if I started it with the gamepad disconnected, then plugged it in at the first prompt to press any key on the input device. It did not launch every time in my personal windows user profile, and using my son's profile it barely launched at all, but it seemed to be a step in the right direction. A quick look at the Lucasarts forum for Lego Indiana Jones confirms that patches are needed, there are gamepad issues to be resolved. As a point of interest I also noted that should your gamepad have less than 19 buttons you will have a job configuring it for the game because you need to assign 19 different buttons to 19 different functions!
I contacted the technical support number included with the game and received an email back from Activision. This suggested that I use a selective start-up to disable all non-essential background processes, then attempt to launch the game. This made no difference. I had already tried disabling firewall and antivirus software, so I didn't hold out much hope. It also asked for a DirectX Diagnostic report to be sent using my Activision account. However I couldn't log into this account because I hadn't created one, and I couldn't create one because my email address was on the database. My computer is one year old, it was Windows XP Service Pack 3, all the graphics and motherboard drivers are bang up to date, and everything is looked after. I have nothing loaded which interferes with disk authentication, no emulators, nothing controversial. If I can send this report I will, but I doubt whether it would cast any light upon the situation.
In the meantime I stumbled across another possibility which seemed so outrageous at the time I only gave it a try because I had run out of anywhere else to turn. I have been playing Lego Star Wars I and II for a year but this is the first time I have bought a brand new just released PC game, which I assumed would run just like LSW. I understand that new games almost always need patches, but total failure to launch was pushing it a bit. Suddenly I discovered that a playable games demo of Lego Indiana Jones had been released in advance of the actual game, presumably as part of the beta testing program. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this demo had a problem because it wasn't coded properly for some multicore processors. Now I understand that plenty of games have yet to be coded to optimise use of multicore processors, but to not actually run on certain multicore processors took some swallowing. Digging a bit deeper I found a forum posting from some kind soul reporting that this glitch was not fixed before the game was actually released, and it resulted in a black screen at launch. Instead of having a PC that failed to meet the minimum specifications for playing the game I was being penalised for having a PC which exceeded those specifications because of a game with a known technical problem identified during testing being released by Activision without warning.
I know I have this specific problem because the solution works without fail. Although how an eager eight year old is supposed to open it on his birthday and just start playing is beyond me. It took me three late nights on the trot and plenty of wild goose chases before I just about beat my deadline, and I work in IT! Anyway, should you happen to have an AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU (or anything similar) you need to set the game to play on just one of the available cores every time you launch it by masking the rest. This involves opening task manager before launching the game, clicking the `Processes' tab, clicking the `Image Name' column to sort all the processes into alphabetical order, then leaving this window open as you launch the game. Whilst the disk is still spinning up and as soon as the `LegoIndy.exe' file appears in the list but before you get any launch screen you have to right click the file, click `Set Affinity' then uncheck every cpu box but one. This will mask the rest of the cores to the game whilst it is being played, and works a treat. But you do have to do it every time you launch the game. Think of it as a warm-up exercise before getting stuck into the problem solving in the game.
If you're an Indy fan, you'll love it June 20, 2008
brian_badger (Glasgow)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
These Lego games really live or die according to your taste in the underlying subject matter. The original Lego Star Wars was new and fun and exciting, but was ultimately let down by the poor quality of the underlying movies. Conversely, the Original Trilogy was a triumph, again because of the quality of the subject matter - in this case, how could a Lego game based on the original Star Wars trilogy be anything other than perfect? When I heard about the Indy Lego game, I was initially very excited, but as the release date approached, I was filled with growing apprehension. Would it be any good? Would it do justice to a wonderful movie francise (2 great films + TOD)? How exactly does a Lego whip work? Release day arrived... The first problem was getting it to work properly. On a 2.6GHz P4 with 1Gb RAM and 256Mb GeForce 6200, the frame rate was apalling, even on the lowest graphic settings. However, once I disabled SpyBot Resident, it worked fine with most of the graphic options turned up - strange, since I've never had such a problem with SpyBot in the past. Anyway, the game itself is a treat, although I'm not sure whether those wbo are not fans of the series would enjoy it much. Ultimately it doesn't matter - like I said above, the success of these Lego games depends on the quality/popularity of the underlying francise - if you love Indy, you'll love this game; if you loathe Indy, buy something else (and get your head examined). The cutscenes in particular are genius, for the most part sticking closely to the movies, but knowing when to break the movie mould in the interest of humour. An early cameo by the head of C3P0 is a fine example. The gameplay is generally good, with the usual problems related to geometry of the landscape, computer AI, etc. This is a game for all ages so, like the Star Wars version, you can't lose. However, here are enough hidden puzzles and areas to amuse even the most dedicated gamer for a few weeks. Overall, as a heavily-biased Indy fan, I highly recommend this game. But if you don't like Indy (or similar movies) then you may not enjoy the full experience and should possibly look elsewhere (or wait for the Lego Batman game).
Two final points...
1. The Lego whip works just fine
2. My suggestion - what about a Lego Transformers game?
Good game (just not as good as the Star Wars ones) June 16, 2008
Jack Wild (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Again, I cant agree with the first reviewer, I have had no issues at all with the game in terms of load times or anything else.
The game is very similar to the lego star wars games (obviously) though the difficulty is definetly turned up a notch with a few head scratches in places trying to solve the puzzles (though I dont say this is a bad thing).
The graphics are an improvement over the star wars games but the thing which stops it getting a 5 is not really a fault of the game more the universe in which it is set.
I love the Indiana Jones series but the problem is that there is just not the supporting cast in Indy compared to star wars. There are 60 characters to unlock but about 30 of them are just the female characters in different forms of dress or a load of generic bad guys with slightly different hats or weapons.
Its still a great gmae play with kids and very entertaining, and I cant wait to see what the same team do with Batman which is due out in October (I saw some previews of the game and it looks great) as there are so many more interesting characters.
Please do an X-Men one next :)
good game with excellent replay value July 16, 2008
K C (W Mids)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game installed and played fine without any issues. No problem starting it with my standard 10 button USB joypad plugged in as some of you have mentioned. My system is quite basic: Athlon X2 3800+, Radeon 2600XT, 4Gb PC2-6400 RAM and Vista x64 SP1. It runs fine with very decent framerate.
This game is a must if you are an Indy fan like me. The cutscenes are very funny and the game sticks to the original trilogy pretty closely with just a few exceptions. In fact, I was sad enough to re-watch all three films again prior to playing this game so that I could be familiarised with the stories again, sad but true. It will provide hours of enjoyment for both adults and children.
I've already completed the game (which did not take long) with <50% completion and am in the process of getting all the goodies (treasure chests, secret characters, bonus levels...etc) that I missed in the story mode. The replay value is therefore quite high.
Despite a few negative comments from users who had experienced problems, I would still recommend this game to anyone. I have never played the Lego Star Wars titles so could not make any comparative comments. Oh, you MUST have a joypad or two joypads for two players as keyboard gameplay is almost impossible. You have been warned.
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