He Said, “Lego Indiana Jones, The Original Adventures” is a pleasant surprise

By Tiberius Jonez

Well, as you can see below, my better half has really enjoyed playing the new Lego Indiana Jones game. Well, why not, with a name like Jones – it has to be good, right?

Well, when I asked for the game for Father’s Day, it was more an excuse to have something we could play together than an outright desire to play it myself. Sure, I had read reviews of the previous Lego games and figured they must at least be decent, but I honestly thought they’d be too simple for an uber-gamer like me. However, I am pleasantly surprised to report, Lego Indiana Jones,The Original Adventures is a really fun game – and it’s challenging to boot.

The graphics are very cute and quite eye-pleasing aside from some noticeable vertical tearing. The camera angle isn’t always conducive to making the platforming aspects of the game as easy as they could be – which is somewhat surprising considering this is the latest of several such Lego games. While it is somewhat disappointing that Traveler’s Tales, the developer responsible for the game hasn’t solved the game’s camera issues – it is not a huge detractor from the game’s overall fun factor.

While I was expecting simple puzzles from the title, I can attest to the fiendish difficulty of some of the game’s puzzles portions. We’ve had to consult YouTube on more than one occasion to figure out what step we were missing to get past different challenges the game presented for us.

As far as the way Traveler's Tales handles the Indiana Jones franchise – they do a remarkable job of remaining true to the movies while adding their own unique comic twists here and there. A sense of fun and light-hearted humor pervades the entire production and adds nicely to the title’s overall appeal. Any fan of the man in the hat will enjoy the Lego treatment he receives.

Overall, I would highly recommend Lego Indiana Jones, The Original Adventures to anyone who either loves good action-platforming-puzzle games, or to any fan of the Indiana Jones movies.

Indy is a winner on the big and small screens!

She Said "Lego Indiana Jones, the original adventure" is awesome!!

by Melissa Melanson

So who am I? I am Tiberius Jonez' wife. I endure the night after night of game playing in our house. To be honest, I am a sims2 fan so as you can see I don't have much gaming experience myself however, I can tell a psp from a ps3. I can talk a big "game", I just don't play them a lot until my husband asked for this game for Father's day. I thought "great another game", Sigh, but this one was different. Tiberius asked me if I wanted to play and I thought why not? Couldn't hurt I guess.

I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was. I've seen all the movies but my memory isn't the best so I didn't remember half as much as my husband did about what comes next so for me it was a surprise around every corner which made it even more exciting. I always played the sidekick and he played Indie. We made a great team.



Even our 2 year old son who loves Video Games (what a shock!!) liked watching. It was exciting, challenging and the puzzles were quite difficult. A few times we had to even look for help as neither of us could figure out the next step. I like games that make you think and just aren't a shootem up game with really no point but to shoot the enemy. I would highly recommend this game to young and old. The lego style is really quite unique and fun. I think that is what I liked about it the most. If the style was geared more towards a lara croft look, more realistic I don't know if I would have been so inclined to play, but this style almost seemed silly and once I started playing it sucked me in. I can't wait until my husband gets home every night so we can play. We've played a total of 3 nights now and have maybe completed 1/5th of the game thus far. I suspect there will be many more nights of fun to come.