Before we had Nathan Drake, we had Lara Croft. And before we had Lara Croft, we had Professor Henry Jones, perhaps more popularly known as Indiana Jones.
尽管电影系列中的第五次灾难性的第五次入场,但自从80年代以来,印地(Indy)一直是流行文化时代主义者,这是有史以来最具标志性的角色之一。 It's past due for him to get his own proper video game outing, and MachineGames certainly hasn't disappointed on that front.
Set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade , Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is an all-new adventure that has Indy going on a globetrotting adventure while digging up lost artifacts and punching the ever-loving crap out of a bunch of Nazis and fascists. Big picture thoughts? It's an enjoyable romp that largely plays it safe but still manages to capture the cheesy charm of the original trilogy. And that's a huge boon in its own right.
Our story begins in Marshall College, where Indy is at his day job, teaching archaeology and history (it's the pursuit of facts, not truth!).当一个神秘的,险恶的人在晚上闯入大学并偷走了一个看似不重要的人工制品时,事情变得糟透了,尽管在您试图以非常单方面的拳战阻止他之前,情况并非如此。印地必须继续的唯一线索是该男子在kerfuffle中丢下的奇怪奖章,在您不知不觉中,您要去罗马的梵蒂冈城市。
As the story unfolds, you quickly learn that various sites of spiritual significance have been built all over the world throughout its history. When you map them out, they form a perfect circle around the globe, AKA the Great Circle. The game takes you to some truly magnificent and impressive locales, including Gizeh in Egypt, Sukhothai in Thailand, and the Himalayas.由于故事是在第二次世界大战之前设定的,所以您遇到的大多数敌人都是轴心力量的一部分,包括主要对手Emmerich Voss,他利用心理学来操纵他的敌人。
印第安纳·琼斯(Indiana Jones)和大圈子(The Great Circle)也得到了一个小而扎实的副角色,包括调查记者吉娜·伦巴第(Gina Lombardi),她还为自己的议程提起案件和其他大圈子网站。就像电影中一样,旁边的角色和小人本身可能并不那么复杂,但是它们是如此努力地倾向于他们的代表,以至于当您进一步进入故事时,您不禁会被它们迷住。
That same sense of silliness extends into the gameplay as well.印第安纳·琼斯(Indiana Jones)和大圈子(The Great Circle)是通过第一人称视角播放的,尽管您确实可以访问左轮手枪和其他枪支,但很明显,除了最后的度假胜地外,您从来没有真正想使用它们。 For the most part, you're encouraged to sneak around, engage in one-on-one fistfights, and use the environment to your advantage.
您很快会发现,即使在两对面的相遇中,印地也将处于劣势,而他几乎不可能通过敌人内森·德雷克(Nathan Drake)的风格来战斗。 With that in mind, you'll want to pick up the closest object you can find and use it to quietly take down your enemies with no fuss.
The stealth itself is equal parts satisfying and comical. What makes The Great Circle feel so distinct is that you rarely feel like you're using conventional weapons to fight your enemies.实际上,大多数情况下,我发现自己正在寻找诸如煎锅,扫帚和滚动销之类的家居用品,将我的敌人带到头上。为了使事情变得更好,邦克总是会伴随着令人满意的笨拙的声音(或平坦的THAP ,如果您在打孔的话),它回声比应该长一秒钟,从而创造出卡通声音效果,从而使电影总是如此可爱。
There are various skill books you can find along the way, including my personal favorite, the Lucky Hat. This is basically a revive that you can use once after getting downed in-game.发生的事情是,印地(Indy)在耗尽HP后将有机会向他的软呢帽爬行,如果您这样做,他会站起来,把帽子戴在头上,并用您见过的最笨拙的笑容看着他的敌人。的确,我在演奏大圈子时获得的最高乐趣是与幸运的帽子一起卷起了很棒的复出,将纳粹脱离了壁架,让印地说些狡猾的话,例如“那是你的教授!”
游戏中的其他技能书将提高您的战斗能力,以帮助使战斗感觉更加多样化,从而使您能够将Indy塑造成最适合您的比赛风格的战斗机类型,但并不多。 For the most part, the hand-to-hand combat is a matter of blocking and parrying at the right times, and landing punches where you can.
Because this is an Indiana Jones game, the iconic whip also plays a large role in the overall experience. As you might expect, it can be used as a weapon to smack your opponents around a little bit, distract them, or trip them up.同时,它也用于解决遍历和拼图的解决方案,使Great Circle如此有趣的是您可以始终依靠鞭子来解决最棘手的障碍和情况。
无论您是用它来摆动裂缝,还是通过鞭打他们的手来解除敌人,鞭子感觉就像是印地的手臂的自然延伸,它的触觉使我想起了战神的Leviathan斧头,以及那件事的满足感。总而言之,我很喜欢这种战斗很少围绕着您期望的第一人称游戏期望的枪支和传统武器的使用。 MachineGames能够在这里充分展示其创新和创造力,并使用您可以使用的各种随机物品和有趣的环境,即使拳击本身并不是真的要写回家。
Of course, it wouldn't be an Indiana Jones game without puzzles and riddles, of which The Great Circle offers in spades.一般而言,拼图很容易弄清楚,大多数线索都可以在印地自己的日记中或周围的环境中使用。但是,每当我确实陷入了一两个奇怪的难题时,我特别喜欢的是,我被留给了自己的设备,而没有任何烦人的对话提示,从印地(Indy)推动我推向解决方案。
It's also worth pointing out that the environments you get to explore in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are pretty massive.每个区域都有一条主要的路径,但是每隔一段时间,您都有机会从人迹罕至的路径上走出来,并有可能发现新的较小的侧面任务,甚至还有更多的难题可以解决。就我个人而言,我发现这可能会破坏一点节奏,如果游戏更专注于主要故事而不是这些转移的主要故事,我会更喜欢这些转移,因为这使我投入了投资。
With that said, however, there's no denying that MachineGames has spared no effort in making this historical time period come to life.吉兹市场(Gizeh Markets)尤其充满了生命和兴奋,并且游戏做得非常出色,使您觉得自己确实被直接落入了1930年代。
Tying everything together is the exceptional soundtrack that uses John Williams' brilliant score as a foundation and builds on it.每当您将敌人击倒或挑选出一些重要的东西时,音乐中几乎没有闪烁和繁荣,这确实使游戏真正地感觉像是真正的爱的劳动。
也许我可以向印第安纳·琼斯(Indiana Jones)付出的最高称赞和大圈子是,它完全抹去了我记忆中命运的嘲讽,我说这是一位主要的水晶骷髅辩护者。这是一款视频游戏,不一定会承担很多风险并且感觉安全,是的,但这也是使Indy在电影和流行文化中成为如此心爱的偶像的结晶。 And that's all I needed it to be.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle releases for PC and Xbox on Dec. 9, 2024. A review code for the game was provided by the publisher. Reviewed on PC via Steam.