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Lego: Indiana Jones (PC DVD)
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LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures takes the fun and creative construction of LEGO and combines it with the wits, daring and non-stop action from the original cinematic adventures that enthralled audiences everywhere (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). With a unique tongue-in-cheek take on the original adventures, LEGO Indiana Jones follows Dr. Jones escapades through the jungles of South America to the mountaintops of India. Fans can build, battle and brawl their way through their favorite cinematic moments, from Indy's entanglements with snakes to his dashing boulder run. Of course, pop culture's most iconic archeologist will whip through all the classic moments with the help of a host of supporting characters including Marion Ravenwood and Short Round. Players can also mix and match the body parts of more than 60 playable characters to create new heroes just as they could in the best-selling LEGO Star Wars games.
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1/5 |
Don't buy it
(August 02, 2008) |
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Just got this game for my grandsons to play, ages 6 and 4 they both love Lego Starwars on PC and Nintendo DS and Wii. All very excited, it installed ok, but won't play, error message about emulators? I've deleted and disabled everything I can think of, tried installing it on 3 other computers in the house. No joy, two very disappointed little boys and a frustrated granny and I can't send it back. Good to see other punters are as fed up as us. I give it no stars. |
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3/5 |
more problems for indy
(July 19, 2008) |
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We also anticipated the release of the new game having previously played lego star wars 1 and 2. We initally had problems launching the game from my profile as we kept getting emulator warning messages. We went through all our programmes deleting any possible emulators but ended up only playing on my sons profile. We resolved that issue by changing over both CD/DVD drives. Now we can launch the game from my profile
Fast forward now to our recent problems. We completed both the first and second game and got as far as the third level in the third game entitled 'cycle escape'. In this level you have two bridges to cross at least- i say at least as we can get no further than the second check point before the tunnel. We have found that the game crashes anywhere from the second bridge up to the second check point
We also have been in touch with activision who have given us a list of different things to try- no luck. we have tried it on my sons profile but again with out success. having felt on our own it is good to hear that we are not alone |
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4/5 |
good game with excellent replay value
(July 16, 2008) |
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The game installed and played fine without any issues. No problem starting it with my standard 10 button USB joypad plugged in as some of you have mentioned. My system is quite basic: Athlon X2 3800+, Radeon 2600XT, 4Gb PC2-6400 RAM and Vista x64 SP1. It runs fine with very decent framerate.
This game is a must if you are an Indy fan like me. The cutscenes are very funny and the game sticks to the original trilogy pretty closely with just a few exceptions. In fact, I was sad enough to re-watch all three films again prior to playing this game so that I could be familiarised with the stories again, sad but true. It will provide hours of enjoyment for both adults and children.
I've already completed the game (which did not take long) with <50% completion and am in the process of getting all the goodies (treasure chests, secret characters, bonus levels...etc) that I missed in the story mode. The replay value is therefore quite high.
Despite a few negative comments from users who had experienced problems, I would still recommend this game to anyone. I have never played the Lego Star Wars titles so could not make any comparative comments. Oh, you MUST have a joypad or two joypads for two players as keyboard gameplay is almost impossible. You have been warned.
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1/5 |
Terrible! do not buy on PC
(July 13, 2008) |
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If you can get this game to install you are lucky. If you can play it you are lucky, i have never seen a game so full of bugs!!! Just google it and you'll see hundreds of posts with people with problems and technical support is useless! If they answer at all, they just say re-install the game which does nothing!
You can't send it back for a refund or replacement as you've opened it!
It crashes out in the middle of games, your character suddenly stops moving or disappears altogether and you have to start again. The screen suddenly starts shaking and won't stop. But worse still, bits of the game are actually missing! You won't believe it until you try it, but you can't finish a level so you look up a walkthrough and there is a screenshot of what you should see but it isn't there!!!
Please do not waste your money on this, you will be sorely disappointed. By a console version if you must as these are reported to be better.
I've had to completely give up as there is just no way past one of the bugs now! |
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4/5 |
Indiana we have a problem!
(June 26, 2008) |
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Great game but beset with technical problems. Basically I can install the game and play it once as soon as I have installed it, but after that point pretty much every time I launch the game, either by using the start command on the disk launcher window or the desktop shortcut, I am presented with a black screen. This is not quite the same as a blank screen because the input light is on and there is computer activity, but the screen itself is just black. No combination of keys will bring me back to my desktop, so I have to do a manual reset to reboot the computer. My first suspicion was that there was a problem with my Logitech Dual Action gamepad. I had downloaded the latest drivers from the Logitech website and checked that the game supported dual analogue game controllers, but I found that the game tended to launch more often if I started it with the gamepad disconnected, then plugged it in at the first prompt to press any key on the input device. It did not launch every time in my personal windows user profile, and using my son's profile it barely launched at all, but it seemed to be a step in the right direction. A quick look at the Lucasarts forum for Lego Indiana Jones confirms that patches are needed, there are gamepad issues to be resolved. As a point of interest I also noted that should your gamepad have less than 19 buttons you will have a job configuring it for the game because you need to assign 19 different buttons to 19 different functions!
I contacted the technical support number included with the game and received an email back from Activision. This suggested that I use a selective start-up to disable all non-essential background processes, then attempt to launch the game. This made no difference. I had already tried disabling firewall and antivirus software, so I didn't hold out much hope. It also asked for a DirectX Diagnostic report to be sent using my Activision account. However I couldn't log into this account because I hadn't created one, and I couldn't create one because my email address was on the database. My computer is one year old, it was Windows XP Service Pack 3, all the graphics and motherboard drivers are bang up to date, and everything is looked after. I have nothing loaded which interferes with disk authentication, no emulators, nothing controversial. If I can send this report I will, but I doubt whether it would cast any light upon the situation.
In the meantime I stumbled across another possibility which seemed so outrageous at the time I only gave it a try because I had run out of anywhere else to turn. I have been playing Lego Star Wars I and II for a year but this is the first time I have bought a brand new just released PC game, which I assumed would run just like LSW. I understand that new games almost always need patches, but total failure to launch was pushing it a bit. Suddenly I discovered that a playable games demo of Lego Indiana Jones had been released in advance of the actual game, presumably as part of the beta testing program. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this demo had a problem because it wasn't coded properly for some multicore processors. Now I understand that plenty of games have yet to be coded to optimise use of multicore processors, but to not actually run on certain multicore processors took some swallowing. Digging a bit deeper I found a forum posting from some kind soul reporting that this glitch was not fixed before the game was actually released, and it resulted in a black screen at launch. Instead of having a PC that failed to meet the minimum specifications for playing the game I was being penalised for having a PC which exceeded those specifications because of a game with a known technical problem identified during testing being released by Activision without warning.
I know I have this specific problem because the solution works without fail. Although how an eager eight year old is supposed to open it on his birthday and just start playing is beyond me. It took me three late nights on the trot and plenty of wild goose chases before I just about beat my deadline, and I work in IT! Anyway, should you happen to have an AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU (or anything similar) you need to set the game to play on just one of the available cores every time you launch it by masking the rest. This involves opening task manager before launching the game, clicking the `Processes' tab, clicking the `Image Name' column to sort all the processes into alphabetical order, then leaving this window open as you launch the game. Whilst the disk is still spinning up and as soon as the `LegoIndy.exe' file appears in the list but before you get any launch screen you have to right click the file, click `Set Affinity' then uncheck every cpu box but one. This will mask the rest of the cores to the game whilst it is being played, and works a treat. But you do have to do it every time you launch the game. Think of it as a warm-up exercise before getting stuck into the problem solving in the game.
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