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Following widespread success with Lego Star Wars, Traveller's Tales is hard at work on Lego Indiana Jones, due out on consoles in 2008. We wouldn't be surprised to see it on PC and handhelds, either - the official website currently lists platforms as "TBA".
Announced at Comic-Con in San Diego, the new title will parody Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It doesn't sound like it will touch on the new Indiana Jones film, probably because making fun of old people is wrong.
Publisher LucasArts told Comic-Con that the Lego Indy game would boast the same quirky sense of humour, largely thanks to having the same team as the Star Wars games behind it, while TT director Tom Stone also sounds keen. "Indy also presents us with wonderful and memorable cinematic moments," he said. "The boulder scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark [done] in Lego is hilarious!"
TT is also working on a Lego Batman game, while Indiana Jones films still await proper news on LucasArts' own, George Lucas-aided Jones project, currently in development and due to deal with events a year after those in Last Crusade.
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Comments: 1-33 of 33 in total
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LEGO Star Wars and its sequels were lots of fun but I wonder how long the formula will last what with LEGO Batman on the way and now LEGO Indiana Jones, the latter of which looks identical to the previous games bar the lead character and setting? I think I might skip the Batman game and just go for Indiana Jones instead as the movies, characters and settings are far more interesting even if the gameplay's the same.
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afghan_jones
30/07/07 @ 09:42
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Lego Kill Bill please.
Lego Saving Private Ryan Lego Thundercats - that would be awesome. lots of good characters there for co-op. Lego Gears of War? |
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KillallHippies
30/07/07 @ 11:25
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It's just called Raiders of the Lost Ark not Indianna Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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The scepticism on this thread is at full blast. It looks like everyone enjoyed the Star Wars lego games I'm sure the developer can pull it off for Batman and Indiana Jones. Also, I'm not sure I would call it milking it. If something works why not extend it to other films? I'm looking forward to both.
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Many of you seem to think the gameplay will be similar to Lego Star Wars. Don't worry, I'm sure it will have the charm of both Lego and Indiana and be unique at the same time. We'll see anyway, but I have high hopes for this one, and Batman.
Here are some other suggestions! Lego X-Men Lego Transformers Lego Battlestar Galactica Lego Lost Lego Desperate Housewives Lego 24 Lego Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles Lego High School Musical Lego An American Werewolf in London/Paris Lego Sin City Lego 300 Lego The Last King of Scotland Lego The Departed Lego Blood Diamond |
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Kazzahdrane
30/07/07 @ 13:45
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Those decrying TT for milking the idea, I say "who cares?". As long as the games stay fun and let us play through films we know and love I'm all for the Lego series.
Plus I love Indiana Jones like I love oxygen - this is now my most anticipated game for 2008. |
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Waffleaber
30/07/07 @ 16:26
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Lego Manhunt 2 - Can't have an "unrelentingly bleak tone" if it's made of lego.
Lego Evil Dead - Lego Ash would look damn cool Lego Ghostbusters Lego Tetris I suppose for co-op you could be that annoying kid in the baseball cap, the annoying chick or sean connery. Or basil from the museum. |
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ExplodingClown
30/07/07 @ 21:35
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What age group is this targeting, exactly? Being old enough to have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark at my local fleapit (and been pretty damn scared by the face-melting spirits at the end) I can honestly say I'm about 30 years too old for Lego.
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ExplodingClown
30/07/07 @ 21:49
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Then surely it'd be cheaper & easier to just buy some Lego? No waiting, no minimum system specs, easily portable, only limited by your imagination, etc etc...
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>Then surely it'd be cheaper & easier to just buy some Lego?
Erm.. But then why play fps games? When you can go outside with a stick and imagine shooting aliens/zombies/etc? No waiting, no minimum system specs, easily portable, only limited by your imagination, etc etc... Hmmm.. i might try it.. anyone want to buy a stick? |
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ExplodingClown
31/07/07 @ 17:16
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Ummm... sorry smelly, analogy doesn't hold up. The 'go and play outside' version of FPS games would therefore be Columbine or Virginia Tech. My gripe with Lego games approaches the kind of bemusement experienced when confronted with something like Monopoly on the PC: it just seems redundant when you can pick up & play the real thing without needing to own over a grand's worth of electronics first. The article talks about recreating the boulder scene from Raiders: well, I can do that with a proper Lego man and a tennis ball.
I'm sure Lego games have their charm, but it's somewhere in my blind spot. I wouldn't see a Lego movie either.... |
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