Game news The first Indiana Jones video didn’t please everyone: Uncharted and Tomb Raider fans are complaining

Game news The first Indiana Jones video didn’t please everyone: Uncharted and Tomb Raider fans are complaining

Welcome to the circle

MachineGames is a studio with a very good reputation: in recent years, the Swedish firm has proven itself with the various Wolfensteins under the aegis of Bethesda, extremely nervous FPS games, with a delicious atmosphere and sulphurous gameplay. So much so that this explosive gameplay has become their trademark: suffice to say that there was reason to be curious when the publisher revealed that the company’s next project was a game… Indiana Jones.

Sacrosanct license of adventure cinema, it will soon give birth to a completely new title on PC and Xbox which was revealed no later than last week, during Xbox Developer Connect. Its name will be Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle, will focus on an exclusive adventure of the seasoned archaeologist and we will find there the character to whom Harrison Ford will indeed lend his features, however voiced by Troy Baker in VO and by Richard Darbois in VF, the official (and cult) dubbing actor of the American actor in France.

Several big surprises on the program, including another major one: the software will take the form of an FPS. And that, for now, it’s a decision that has caused a lot of discussion in the video game sphere.

In the shoes of Harrison Ford

This first-person camera surprised more than one: it must be said that between Tomb Raider and Uncharted, games of the genre have accustomed their audience to a third-person view, often considered more suitable for the situations and for the spectacular staging. Likewise, many prefer a TPS for puzzles or simply to enhance the panoramas, the settings or the hero himself, who then appear with greater grandeur. In fact, this choice of having an FPS for an Indiana Jones appeared as a frustration among certain players:

On the other hand, many defend MachineGames by recalling that yes, the FPS is part of the studio’s pure and pure expertise and that we should not expect anything else; still others believe that if the developers opted for this camera, it was by building the game around it and that it should not harm the players’ experience.

I’m lumping people who say “Indiana Jones should have been a TPS” with people who are angry about the fact that Baldur’s Gate 3 has turn-based combat instead of being a game-playing game. “modern action in real time”.

Then, still others counterbalance by asserting precisely that‘a first-person view is what this kind of game needed, after several decades of Tomb Raider and Uncharted in exterior camera. For them, it is simply a touch of originality and freshness which, on the contrary, arouses curiosity. And you, which camp do you fall into?

Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle will be released in 2024 on PC and Xbox Series exclusively.

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