Maremy's Blog

Who ever thought playing with Lego at the age of 25 would be fun? Well, not really playing with real Lego. So, what exactly do I mean? Jeremy and I have spent a lot of time lately playing our way through Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. And what a great game it is!

The game covers the first three Indiana Jones adventures: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade. Each adventure has six levels. Even after finishing all the adventures, I was only about 60% of the way through the game. There is A LOT to do in this game. I still have characters to unlock or buy (this is done by using lego pieces you collect while playing the game). I also have more artifact pieces to find in each level.

As you complete each level, you unlock free play in it. This means you can go back to that level and you have the use of 10 different characters, which you switch between using the right or left bumpers on the 360 controller. Each character has different abilities. For example, a scholar character can read hieroglyphs, which allow you to get into secret areas. Small characters have doors they can go through, again to get into secret areas. If you want to collect all the artifact pieces, you have to go back through the game in free play. Many of the artifact pieces can only be collected this way, using a character's special abilities.

My only big complaint about this game is the camera angle, especially when playing with two people. I stopped counting the number of times of would go to jump and end up falling to my "doom" and small, literally, into many Lego pieces and lose many of the pieces I'd already collected! And this was all because of the camera angle (okay, maybe it was me as well just not taking my time...).

I racked up lots of achievement points playing this game too (I'm into the 300's so far). The one thing I loved about this game is you can get many of the achievements by just playing through the game. I still have more I'm trying to get, including the ultimate achievement: complete the game 100%! One of my friends is sitting at 99% right now! He just can't seem to get that 1% he needs.

After having so much fun with this Lego game, I'm going to pick up Lego Stars: The Complete Saga (it was released a few months ago) and in September, I will pick up a copy of Lego Batman. I'm sure they'll be just as fun as Lego Indiana Jones was! I'll end this entry with one of the trailers that was released for Lego Indiana Jones. Enjoy!