Lego Indiana Jones

Even though the most recent Indiana Jones game is devoid of blood, heart-rip-outs, and *sniff* the Wilhelm Scream, it is still a lot of fun to play. Especially in two player.

The first thing I would like to point out is, the two player. All of the levels can be played by two people at once. From the very beginning. You can choose to be helpful, or not. You can blow your friend to pieces with most weapons you choose weather it be fists, rocket launchers, pistols, machine guns, hand grenades, swords, crossbows, spears, feet, or random objects kicking around the environment. You could also help out by building, holding bridges open, or fending off the Nazis/village people/crazed knight. Two player is definitely the best way to play (the computer that plays as the other guy when your not in two player has the IQ of a retarded ant.)

One thing that isn't so fun is the all to common glitches. In one level you must scare birds so they will collide with the enemies airplane. In order for it to be adapted to a video game there are three flocks of birds that you have to scare. But, if you accidentally scare them in the wrong order the game freezes up. Some of the items you carry can be dropped. If you drop it in the wrong spot it seems to be teleported to somewhere else in the space-time continuum and isn't able to be recovered, meaning you have to restart the entire level! Often you yourself will get stuck in weird grooves on the not flat ground. Most of these should have been wiped out when the game was tested.

Something that is very interesting is the way all of the movies have been made into Lego. Watching Indy stare down into the pit with Sallah and his Dad was funny in the movie and equally funny in the game. Some of the movies elements were even matched in the levels such as the temple of the grail.

If you enjoy having an inventory of almost sixty people, don't mind a few glitches, or are a fan of the series, this would be a good game to get. You can easily beat the game in several hours, but with tons of secrets and bounuses to unlock it has days, upon days of replay time.

Indiana Jones the Fourth

So you thought the original Indiana Jones movies were good but you're afraid that the fourth one won't hold up to the previous films and ruin them all for you. Don't worry this series hasn't gone the way that Pirates of the Caribbean has.
The film gets right to the chase pretty quickly, within the first ten minutes Indiana Jones is unveiled and is already being uncooperative towards the Communists. Soon the action picks up and an inside joke is unveiled. Indiana Jones crashes a truck through a bunch of crates in Area 51 (the place with all the crates in the first movie) one of the crates he crashes through shows part of the Ark of the Covenant.
Shia Labeouf does a good job acting as well. Lots of critics thought he was just a normal boring character. But to me, a normal person, I thought he was pretty funny as Mutt Williams the 50's style punk. The dialogue between Ford and Labeouf was also pretty funny.
Lots of the things people loved are still in it. Exciting chases, fights, and temple traps. There is even a supernatural rescue. The badguys aren't Nazis but they're still evil and big at the set time.
They also did a good job of incorporating a ton of things that were important to the 1950's. They had everyone's fear of the Soviet Union, everyone's fear of atomic bombs, and, of course, everyone's fear of (stop reading if you want the plot kept a secret) aliens. When the Soviet Union lady asks Jones if he has any defiant last words he replies, "I like Ike."
And to those who are fans of the series, don't worry, the Wilhelm Scream is still a part of the Indiana Jones movies! When Indiana Jones and long lost son are riding through a library on a motorcycle they knock some guy over and he lets out a Wilhelm. Aoooughhahh!
If your looking for a fun film that isn't as gruesome as the first three this would be a good one. Just remember, if you don't watch this one then the Communists win!




No one's calling him "Junior"



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