Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

I only watched the first movie in preparation for this game and found it helpful but not necessary to be familiar. The performances in this game are incredible, Troy does a great job as Indy and really nails a lot of the more subtle things that you think he might miss. We have a worthy foil to Indy in this game as well with Emmerich Voss played by Marios Gavrilis who will entrance you with every scene he's in. As expected from their wolfenstein games, machine games really knows how to make good cutscenes especially when so many AAA games are obsessed with aping cinema it is refreshing to see a studio to actually try and apply it to their cinematography as well instead of just stopping at "realism." But make no mistake, this isnt a movie game, this is actually surprisingly closer to a dishonored than uncharted. Levels are dense and there are usually multiple routes to get to where you wanna go and stealthing around is fun. The melee combat never gets old, its always fun to bash in a Nazi's head with a guitar. This game also performs really well thanks to the dark magic that powers id Tech

Loved this game, and it ran quite well on my Steam Deck!

Achievement hunting is tedious, don't buy.

使用英伟达帧生成后就再也没法打开游戏了

这游戏优化极差，卡顿严重，还有花屏~谨慎购买！

На RTX 4080 игра идёт в 30 FPS с полным рейтрейсингом без генерации кадров. Сначала я подумал, что передо мной очередное преступление на Unreal Engine 5. Оказалось, MachineGames изнасиловали id Tech 7 так, что движок от Doom Eternal теперь требует видеокарту из будущего, чтобы показывать мужика в шляпе. При этом сама игра — полный paзъё6. Первое лицо работает идеально: ты рассматриваешь древние механизмы, крутишь артефакты, ищешь тайные проходы, лезешь по развалинам и бьёшь фашистов всем, что плохо прикручено к полу. Инди врёт, переодевается, получает по e6aлу и выпутывается из ситуации, которую сам же и устроил. Именно таким он и должен быть. Режиссура, диалоги, лицевая анимация и внимание к деталям находятся на каком-то неприличном уровне. Это лучшая игра Sony, которую сделала не Sony: дорогая, кинематографичная, с живыми персонажами и ощущением настоящего приключения. Только вместо очередной грустной женщины с луком здесь Индиана Джонс бьёт нациста скрипкой. Пока выглядит как одна из лучших игр по лицензии вообще. Осталось выяснить, не решат ли MachineGames растянуть идеальное приключение на сорок часов записок, тайников и прочей обязательной xyйни.

[h1] A Masterclass in adventure games [/h1] This game is perfect in every sense. The story, gameplay, graphics, simply fun to play from the beginning 'til the end The game also has a lot of content for it's price and genre. One of a few where doing a 100% run is accessible and rewarding (for the most part). Exploring levels is fun, puzzles are not trivial and sometimes can make you sit on them for a solid 20 minutes or so. That's not to say the game is absolutely perfect, you will surely run into immersion-breaking bugs or have a problem finding that one note or ancient relic, but in general the game is phenomenal, definitely give it a try!

I really enjoy but don't necessarily love Indiana Jones. I loved Machine Games' work on The New Order, and utterly loathed The New Colossus. And now The Great Circle is one of the few games I've 100%'d on Steam. Machine Games nailed the brief. An absolutely authentic and passionate labour of love to Indiana Jones, and total commitment to the tone, prose, ethos, and style of the first three films. It's shot, written, and presented like a secret fourth film we should have gotten. It's funny, exciting, and totally engaging, with a tremendously enjoyable cast, fantastic villain, and Baker delivering a mostly remarkable Ford impression. There's Escape from Butchers Bay DNA throughout, which isn't surprising given Machine Games is made up of many ex-Starbreeze. The game affords adventuring and action in just the right balance, with puzzle solving and secrets that avoid handholding. It's maybe a little too simple in its stealth and action, and maybe a little janky at times, but this is the perfect example of where grievances with individual game systems are easy to ignore when you appreciate how they all come together to make a collective interactive whole. Everything intersects with each other, and the experience you have, just perfectly. The DLC was a wet fart and particularly frustrating if trying to backtrack through and get all the notes. It's not awful, the story/tone/ideas are lovely, but it's very linear, offers little agency driven adventuring, and you spend way too much time underground. Not a single new game system or mechanic to experiment weakens it too. I played through with path tracing and the game is outstandingly gorgeous. The major grievanecs I'll give the production are that the Thailand chapter, while still great in my opinion, feels a bit undercooked compared to some of the other hubs (maybe intentionally so, to ensure it moves a bit quicker). It also has absurdly high VRAM requirements compared to literally every other area in the game, which can easily result in VRAM ceiling bugs if you're using path tracing and a high resolution. Just a clumsy handling of memory that spikes in an unfortunate way in this specific chapter. Even some of the cutscenes (not all) in this chapter felt a bit under polished. But it's still great and picks up from there. Overall, loved it. Huge winner for me and I couldnt' recommend it enough, especially if you just really want a long, committed single player adventure game that's a bit Wolfenstein, a bit Uncahrted, a bit Escape from Butchers Bay, and a whole lot of Indiana Jones love.