Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (2024)

I tried the 2.5-hour demo on PlayStation Plus so I could get a feel for this gameplay, and I like what I’ve seen so far.

Definitely enjoyed exploring the Vatican’s secrets. Got nervous always trying to act nonchalant when walking around the (Italian WW2-era) Fascists, but it was fun when I got to fight back a bit too.

Maybe someday I’ll pick up a proper copy and play the whole thing.

I felt like this was on it's way to being a 5 star game from me when I was finishing up Egypt. I enjoyed the quick vignettes, but then I got to the last major location and royally lost steam. I agree with other reviewers that have said the less of this game you play the better it is, but I just can't help trying to track down collectibles. By the end I decided not to go for the secret ending because I was not game for the busy work. According to xbox I hit 810/1000 points and I think I might have liked this game more if my achievement score was closer to 500.

In general this game shines with traversal puzzles and main story beats. The Vatican and Egypt were a joy to explore, but when you weren't solving a puzzle this game could get tiresome.

From Swedish studio Massive Entertainment, who earlier made Wolfenstein games New Order and New Colossus before. Heard great things about them, I own both on Steam and been meaning to play them sometime!

Borrowed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle from the Library in autum. I really loved the overall feeling of this game. It felt like playing a real Indiana Jones movie. It had a fun and adventurous story that was engaging through it all.

The whip is a lot of fun to use and fits Indy perfectly. The pistol was OK while the melee combat wasn’t that good. The stealth part of the game was fun.

Visually the game looks great, I like the atmosphere and the different environments. Exploration and puzzles was fun through it all.

Troy Baker was incredible as Indiana Jones and truly sounds just like Harrison Fords Indy!

A great adventure that nails the Indiana Jones vibe. I want to get back to it and play the DLC Order of the Giants.

Rating: 🌲🌲🌲🌲 ➕

It felt really good playing an Indiana Jones game in this current gen. The story was engaging and all the supporting cast of characters were all compelling. Indy himself was a blast. Troy Baker did a phenomenal job with his Indiana Jones voice work. He captured his playfulness as well as his tones of annoyance and anger. What I couldn’t get fully behind was playing the game in first person view. It felt odd at times, especially when platforming. All in all, I enjoyed it more than I anticipated and had a good time with it despite its flaws.

Un juego muy disfrutón y divertido, que reimagina como tendría que ser un juego de aventuras en un universo en el que no existen Uncharted ni Tomb Raider. Tiene un combate simple que se centra en ser disfrutón, siendo increiblemente divertido lanzar objetos que hacen boink en la cabeza de los nazis. Destaca la historia, ambientación, escenarios y el level design, su originalidad, consiguiendo tener esencia propia y ser la mejor película de Indiana Jones desde la tercera (la quinta está guapilla en verdá). La experiencia sin embargo se ha visto enturbiada un poco por varios bugs que afectaban a los coleccionables, que impedían conseguirlo todos, lo que es un tema en un juego de conseguir coleccionables enverdá.

The game starts off a bit slowly but its first main location is great fun. Loads of nooks and crannies to explore, you constantly feel like you're discovering new parts of the map, there are lots of different areas with different vibes, it's rich in atmosphere and the exploration and gameplay tie nicely into the storytelling. A very promising start. Unfortunately, the game quickly runs out of steam from there. Subsequent locations feel quite poorly designed in comparison. The second main location in particular is just boring. Everything looks the same and you spend a lot of time just running around an open landscape.

The storytelling and writing, too, become more and more lacklustre the further you progress. It manages to pull you in quite well with its central mystery in the beginning but never really takes it anywhere interesting. The words that come to mind to describe the story are mediocre and boring. Quite a few times I found myself listening to conversations that felt like they added nothing to the story and were neither interesting, nor entertaining. Even most of the big reveals and twists felt very predictable and unexciting. The main villain is especially poorly written and over-acted. He feels like a flat caricature and it was difficult to take any scene he appeared in seriously.

The puzzles are generally fun (if at times a bit simplistic) but they're ruined by the fact that you will constantly be given the solution by an NPC before you even have time to figure it out for yourself. And if you want to explore for a bit before solving the puzzle, that NPC will end up reminding you about the solution every 10 seconds or so which is hugely annoying. The stealth encounters are pretty good and feel both tense and satisfying. Combat is fine but I mostly avoided it. Exploration is great when it works (like in the first main location) but otherwise a bit of a slog.

The graphics are quite pretty, though especially the second main location suffered from the artists clearly doing no research whatsoever on what ruins from that culture actually look like. Still, it's a very good-looking game, just also quite resource-hungry. There is an annoying bug where the game will sometimes stutter horribly after booting it up. This is resolved by disabling and then re-enabling DLSS (but hopefully they'll patch it).

So yeah, all in all it's not a bad game and I had some fun with it but in the end I found it quite mediocre and the storytelling was especially disappointing for a game based on a movie franchise.

Played on PC, about 26 hours for main missions plus side quests.

This was great. For context, I have only seen the Raiders of the Lost Ark and hold a very unpopular opinion of not enjoying it at all. This game had a great sense of style, great performances (some particularly hilarious performances by the villains), a mysterious story that was enough to keep me hooked (though not absolutely enthralled) and interesting gameplay. The decision to go with an first-person immersive sim style of gameplay was great as it added some unique flavour to what might otherwise have been 'just another' third person stealth shooter. It was fun to find out different ways of approaching certain environments. I think some of the areas could do with some more fast travel points because traversing them was quite boring.

Overall, a great time.

First game of 2025 and enjoying it. And after seeing the next lineup of NVIDIA cards, I don't even know if I want to upgrade from my 3090ti yet, because this card is still kicking ass.

Max settings , 4k, DLSS Quality enabled, 120fps...

Silent Hill 2 on the other hand was actually quite taxing, so I may end up upgrading to a 5080 over a 5090 for much less. Time will tell very soon.

Hope everyone starts there year off with a fun game!

A game that drops in December and is actually good?

Wow, that beginning adventure just brings me back all the good memories of classic Indy. I realize it completely copies the Raiders opening scene but it manages to follow-up with some fun game play and quite captures a good blend of stealth, combat, and puzzles that channel the spirit of a good Indy adventure.

Sweet jesus, the post game is almost irredeemably broken. Achievements that are bugged, dialogue triggers that keep firing out of context, mysteries that seem bugged. The worst is Gina won't stop screaming "Oh God!" and "That was too close", two bits of dialogue from one of the final missions in the game. Everywhere I travel with her she just yells both bits of dialogue repeatedly without end. I've tried quitting and reloading the game, to no avail. This is layered on top of the already four or five lines of dialoged that Jones repeats out of context. It's actually annoying enough that I've considered dropping my overall score because I'm not sure I want to close out unfinished business when this is happening. It really feels like they didn't pass the final chapters and post game through enough of a QA process.

Look, this is a very fun game in many ways, and I had a great time with it. But it's not without it's share of problems, including some very basic game design that isn't particularly groundbreaking, and numerous end game bugs. It's amazing that people are calling this the game that will save Xbox, when really it's just a perfectly fine game. Says a lot about previous Xbox exclusives, I guess. And on that note, it's kind of amusing that when this drops on PS5 the PS5 Pro will be able to handle RT in ways the Xbox can't which means the definitive console edition will be for PS5. What a weird world of console competition we currently inhabit.

Although it’s not necessary to enjoy the game, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle’s implementation of ray tracing really goes a long way to illustrate the positive ways in which ray traced shadows, reflections and illumination can go a long way to improve in-game verisimilitude compared to things like screen space reflections or cube maps for reflections and shadows. Although this game isn’t the most advanced implementation of full ray tracing, it’s is one with some really gorgeous spaces that take obvious advantage of it.

Digital Foundry’s analysis’s of the December 9th full RT patch for The Great Circle inadvertently works as a great primer for people who still wonder if ray tracing is a gimmick, or if it is actually a worthwhile contribution to game design. The first half of the video really does a wonderful job illustrating what full RT has to offer and providing side-by-side comparisons to really show off the ways in which full RT really makes a space feel real.

Gave it a couple hours since it was Game Pass anyways. Not my thing. The intro being a playable recreation of the bag-swap, rolling ball scene was cool, but from there, I really just don't like stealth games. Lots of crawling around, checking to see where the enemies are to sneak up on them. Unless I missed some other drastically different way to play, this seemed to be the intention, which I wasn't really expecting going into it.

I've also never seen the movies, despite being an age I probably definitely should have by now, so maybe I'm missing some extra draw there.

Past that, the controls felt kind of clunky too. Trying to maneuver in tight spaces to find clues and just look around, ending up stepping up and down, or getting blocked by random bits of decoration. Just didn't feel great. Didn't help me want to try to stick it out to see if I was missing some more interesting or fun gameplay hook.

Maybe I didn't give it enough time, but not feeling it, moving on. I hope others find more enjoyment in it.

Lots of fun dialogue triggering bugs in the final chapter now that Gina is following me around everywhere in Sukhothai.

• Even though I’m wearing a disguise Gina warns me that enemies will see me.
• Even if Gina joins me on a mission she acts like I was gone and left her at the boat. Multiple different lines of dialogue play out indicating all the things she did while she was waiting for you, despite the fact that she was with you the whole time.
• If you wear a disguise enemies ignore you and Gina as if she is somehow invisible.
• Gina continues to spend a lot of time pointing out things you’ve already done, suggesting tips on how to do the thing you’ve already done.
• The game makes you wait for Ginato point out the solution for certain puzzles before granting you an interaction prompt. In one of the temples I found a lever but couldn’t interact with it. Only after Gina pointed it out did the X icon appear over the lever.

I have seen a lot of reviewers say that Troy Baker's rendition of Harrison Ford is amazing... But I kinda completely disagree. He gets the voice right, but his delivery totally sucks. It sounds like he's on downers and completely lacks the charisma and sarcastic enthusiasm of Ford's performance.

It's actually quite grating and drags the game down a bit in my opinion... I'm just glad he doesn't talk much.