Game Review: Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, For Playstation 3

Written by:  • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Updated Mar 31, 2010
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Take an adventure through the Lego world of Indiana Jones!!!

The Games Plot

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Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures for the Playstation 3 has a pretty simple plot to follow. It is basically all 3 Indiana Jones movies thrown into one game. Combine 3 awesome blockbuster movies into one game and what do you got? One heck of a long thrilling adventure.

You get to play the game of course as our trustworthy brave hero Indiana Jones. Only the Indiana Jones in this game has been shrunken down to a pint sized Lego character. Indy does not travel alone though, as he battles his way through visually awesome levels he always has a trusty sidekick to back him up along the way. Every other level or so though his sidekick changes to characters that you will remember from the movies.

Now if you haven't watched an Indy flick in some time, I would suggest doing so before really throwing yourself into game play. The reason for this is because you will fight your way through levels with really no understanding as to why you are doing it, and what the actual point it.

There are cute cut scenes that take place after you beat each level, but the characters in the cut scenes don't talk, they grunt. You really don't know what they are saying, so you try and put together what is happening by watching what is going on in the cut scenes.

If I didn't have my boyfriend playing at my side filling me in on what scene the Lego cut scenes came from, and what was going on, I would have been a little confused. However even if no one was there to help me decipher what was going on in the plot, I would have had fun regardless, because the game is an all out fun fest from start to finish.

Difficulty
Rating Below Average

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As I battled my way through the very first plot of the game, I expected the game play to grow more and more difficult as I advanced. This never really happened though; granted it was fun smacking around my Lego enemies and hearing them clatter to the ground after I killed them, they never really grew difficult to kill.

As I got further and further into the game my enemies got newer, more advanced weapons, but really they were not hard to beat, even if there was a clan of them spraying me with their puny Lego bullets I was still easily able to kick butt.

Another thing that would annoy a hardcore gamer is the lack of punishments. If your character dies, he simply comes back to life like nothing ever happened. Although this is great for younger children who don't like having to start a level over again, it sort of wrecks any sense of accomplishments in the game.

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