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Here’s the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can’t get across the sequence’s subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16.
Whoops! According to the curriculum vitae of an animator currently employed at LEGO developers Traveller’s Tales, the team is currently working on two games. One a Harry Potter title, the other a second Indiana Jones.
It’s an exciting day for everyone in Lego Gotham City. A new hero err heroine has been announced, Batgirl! She will be joining forces with Lego Batman’s great cast of characters. Batgirl will also be able to sport Batman’s gadgets such as the Glide Suit and Sonic Suit. Expect the game out in September.
Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, it’s pretty fun, try it out. This pretty much sums up Yahtzee’s latest Zero Punctuation, in which he takes on Lego Indiana Jones, a game far too cute and nostalgia-packed to really trash. Don’t let the quick summary keep you from watching, however, as not only are there some truly laugh-out-loud moments in the main review, the bonus review afterwards is just dead on.
How do you guys like the new music? ZP was getting a bit too big to continue using commercial music without drawing attention, so now it opens and closes with generic heavy metal. Call it his Guilty Gear period.
Zero Punctuation: LEGO Indy [The Escapist]
Despite my excitement over the whole melding Lego with Indiana Jones business, I’ve somehow managed to hold off picking up Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. I’ve had the game in my hands several times for several systems, but for some reason I’ve always balked before getting to the register. Not even Crecente’s review could help me decide. Now I get a chance to find out if I was right or wrong to hold off as a demo for the game hits Xbox Live. Presumably the same demo that was released for the PC in early May, the Xbox version weighs in at 619MB, so be sure to measure that sack of sand correctly before swapping it out.
Who knew that combining little plastic blocks with blockbuster movie trilogies could prove so charming? LucasArts and Traveller’s Tales captured lighting in a bottle with the Lego Star Wars series of games, with the lighthearted take on some of the most icon characters and stories in science fiction history capturing the hearts of fans both young and old alike. So charmed were both gamers and the gaming press that they almost – almost forgave Lucas for Jar Jar.
Now the two companies have teamed up again to give the classic Indiana Jones trilogy the tiny toy treatment in the hopes of recapturing the magic and wonder of the first two outings. Have they unearthed yet another treasure, or are they up to their waist in a pit full of snakes? Throw me the whip, and I’ll throw you the review roundup.
Activision sends word that Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is out and about in Australia, starting from today.
Like Lego Star Wars had all six movies in toy block form, this version comes with all of Indy’s adventures. These include Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade. Yes, Crystal Skull is absent, but it’s not like you’d want to relive the experience as a game anyway.
Lego Indiana Jones is available on a bevy of platforms: Wii, DS, PS3, 360, PSP, PS2 and PC. This collection is otherwise known as “all of them”. Even taking into account this scattergun approach, I think the Wii version will turn out the most popular. All that whip-cracking is hard to resist.
Jump, meet press release.
So, if seeing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull left you a little disappointed, and you’re twiddling your thumbs until Friday’s Tuesday’s release of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, fire up your emulators, British Gaming Blog has a chronology of every video game tied to the high-adventure series.
The list details the 10 and upcoming 11th (Lego Indiana Jones on June 6) and 12th (a TBA action title later) games featuring Dr. Jones. Ahhhhh but they left one out!!! Neener-neener this is why I posted it, to make myself look smart! Midscape released “Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom” for Commodore 64 in 1984 — and it deliberately did not include an instruction manual. “No one told Indiana Jones the rules. And no one will tell you.”
Reader cashius22 spotted this and I can’t resist. It’s Lego, and it’s Indiana Jones and therefore, it is on-topic.
And it’s quite possible that this is viral marketing for the upcoming title (out in June), if not the movie (this week). They roll this sucker in San Francisco, and LucasArts is around the block in the Presidio. Five million Legos is not something you buy or assemble that quick — if it is a solid 5 mil Legos. I don’t really see them flaking off as it tumbles, so it may be a bunch of big pieces- parts made by Lego and assembled by this team. Also, it’s S.F. in the middle of the day, no moving cars in the shot, very few parked, so they probably got a filming permit. And the big flatbed truck too … good bet this is marketing.
But it’s clever, and I admire any creative impulse that gets you to roll a Lego boulder down a big hill into a parked van. Plus it has a guy dressed as Sallah, and fezzes are awesome. But if this was Boston, they’d all be arrested for terrorism.
LEGO Boulder [YouTube, thanks cashius22]
