Indy and the crew get set to find the mystical city.

User Rating: 9.1 | Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis AMI
By edubuccaneer | Review Date:
Indiana Jones was already a household name in the eighties, when the first games bearing his name were released at arcades, computers and even the first home consoles. Most of them were OK, but nothing was as stellar as the name and movies.

That all changed in 1992. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released by LucasArts and was a surefire hit. Bearing the legendary name and having the classic gameplay already set by Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island game, Indy finally got the game he deserved.

The story begins with a scientist stopping by Berkley, to visit Indy about help with an idol. Indy and Marcus find a way to open the said idol, revealing a strange sphere. Right after this, the cientist reveals that he's a Nazi and is taking the item to the hands of the Fuhrer. Indy has to stop them, since this may be the key to find Plato's description of the legendary lost city of Atlantis!

The game plays just like the Monkey Island games and the graphics are a step up from those. I can say Day of the Tentacle looks a little better, but not much. All the interface is clickable by the lower right side of the screen with commands like GIVE, TAKE, PUT and the such. In special portions of the game, you'll need to fight enemies with you fists, then you'll use the arrow keys.

The sound department in this game is amazing. Porting original music and the ones from John Williams' album, the game feels authentic everywhere you look. The voice acting is top notch and the Indy actor really sounds like Harrison Ford.

Nowadays, you can easily make the game work on any system that has Windows by using a program called ScummVM, that makes all the necessary configurations to run the game properly. This will work with the other old LucasArts games. On the Mac the game will work fine today and in other systems, well, you have to own those to use them anyways, since they haven't been updated in a long while.

Dr. Jones' game is a worthy game to have in your collection. It takes the adventure formula and improves it a whole lot by adding multiple paths and endings depending on how you play. You can't go wrong with this. May the Force be with You... wait.... oh, forget...

Thanks for reading!

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