Everything You Need To Know About “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”
Learn about the latest project from MachineGames under Bethesda Softworks.
The new title from MachineGames will be a first-person adventure featuring guns, fists, whips, and puzzle solving.
Gameplay
The game’s first-person perspective is new for the franchise as there have been point-and-click, third-person, and side-scrolling games. There will be sections of the game, such as climbing and cutscenes, that involve a third-person camera to make it more cinematic.
Game director, Jerk Gustafsson, previously worked on titles including the Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and the Darkness. Both heavily involved first-person action stealth and the Darkness features controllable tentacles, similar to using a whip. Chronicles of Riddick has first-person melee combat, another feature coming to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Other returning staff members include Jens Andersson and Axel Torvenius who previously worked on those titles at Starbreeze alongside Gustafsson. Andersson, who also previously worked at Lucasarts, was originally set to lead a canceled Indiana Jones game in 2009 and was ecstatic to join this new project at MachineGames, “Now, I get a chance to do what I originally hoped to, but this time I get to do it with some of my oldest and best friends. Joining MachineGames is like coming home — amazing people I worked with during Riddick and Darkness, but also teeming with new ones, whose talent daily blow me away.” — VGC
Players will be able to solve combat scenarios and puzzles in a variety of ways, akin to recent MachineGames releases including Wolfenstein: the New Order and Wolfenstein II: the New Colossus. Players can use their environment, such as picking up tools including a shovel, hammers, and more to dispatch enemies. Levels will vary in size and exploration, offering many solutions and outcomes to different areas. Enemies can also be disarmed and have their own weapons used against them. The whip is being considered the ultimate instrument in Indiana Jones’ arsenal. Players can use it as a distraction tool, a traversal tool, and will be able to affect enemies by whipping weapons out of their hands, tripping them, and other uses to discover.
Characters
Indiana Jones will have Harrison Ford’s likeness but will be voiced by gaming industry legend, Troy Baker. Baker is most famous for his role as Joel in The Last of Us (2013) and many other characters that include Batman, Joker, Booker Dewitt from Bioshock Infinite (2013), and so many more. Baker also played Sam Drake, the brother of gaming’s Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series. He had this to say about getting to play the iconic adventurer for this upcoming title, “Rest assured I picked up the hat and whip with a hand trembling with respect…and admittedly a helluva lot of fear.”
Tony Todd, famous for playing the Candyman and Zoom, will be starring in his next big video game role after playing Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 as Locus, a new antagonist that appears early in the game.
The main villain of the game, Emmerich Voss, described as a foil to Indiana Jones and one of his greatest opponents yet, will be played by Marios Gavrilis. The actor is most known for his German voice dubbing work and appearances in German TV.
Indy will be joined by investigative reporter Gina Lombardi, played by Italian actress, Alessandra Mastronardi who most recently appeared in the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Story
The game will include locales such as the the Himalayas, the Vatican, the Great Pyramids of Giza and Sukhothai. Jones discovers a circle around the globe that connects the seven wonders of the world. He is, once again, in a race against the Nazis to uncover the mystery of the circle.
He is joined by Gina Lombardi as she has a personal stake in the mystery and the two will share classic Indiana Jones banter. In the developer gameplay reveal, Lombardi can be heard commenting on the player’s actions.
The game will take place in 1937, the year between Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade.
Release date
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set to release later this year on Xbox Series S/X consoles, PC, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass.
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