LOTR The third age done - Indy and the Emperor’s Tomb in
February 17th, 2008
Well it appears to be Indy week here on Quit Your Day Job. First the cool trailer is released and now I’ve just started playing Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb on the PS2. Actually it’s simply a happy coincedence as the Indy game was in the bunch of PS2 games I recently picked up really cheaply and just happened to be closest to the Playstation after I finished Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.
Ahhh The Third Age what am amazingly huge anticlimax when you finish the game. You fight Sauron, you beat Sauron (interestingly enough) and then you get to watch some footage from The Return of the King. Which I already own twice on DVD and didn’t really need to see again.
There was a brief half an hour or so that I decided to revisit early stages to complete missions with my now superhuman strength characters but quickly found this to be tedious.
The re-play value is pretty low and I suspect this will now go to the bottom of a dusty pile and not get looked at again. Not that it wasn’t a great game and I was remarkably surprised at how much I enjoyed it, just it’s over now and there is no point in going back to it.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb is a game that I believe I once got out from the video store or the library and it did very little to capture my imagination or interest. But I think it was on the PC and I don’t tend to play on the computer very much.
So far the game is pretty much a Lara Croft clone except with Indy (not Indy’s voice mind you) and the Indy music, oh and less Raptors.
I’ve already face the frustration of jumping over something, landing in the water and realising that I’ve gone backwards and now have to work my way back to the point I just left.
Anyone else played this?
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Categories: Games | Tags: Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, lara croft, ps2 games, return of the king, the third age | 4 Comments
