"Alright Jones, how you gonna find that statue in all this junk?"
After three successful (but rather mediocre) game adaptations of the Indiana Jones movies, LucasArts struck out on a new direction for the game informally referred to as "Indy4" and wrote a new original story centered around the famous Lost City of Atlantis. The story rivaled the stories of the blockbuster movies, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis became one of the most fantastic adventure gaming experiences ever.
Besides being action-packed and extremely fun, what sets Indiana Jones apart is its replayability: the entire middle portion of the game can be played in three entirely separate ways. There's the team mode, where you and Sophie can journey together and she will serve as a solution to many puzzles. There's the wits mode, where the real puzzle lovers will have plenty to keep their brains occupied. Finally, there's the action mode, where the answer to pretty much every puzzle is beating up a Nazi. The latter two modes will reunite Indy and Sophie later in the game, so the ending is the same, but the three modes are so completely different that the replayability is huge, the best in any LucasArts game (with the possible exception of Maniac Mansion).
Last time: Indy came in at #5 last time; again, don't take the fact that he's one space lower as a sign that I think any less of the game. It's still a five-star adventure.
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