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"Best Action Game Ever!"
this game takes place right before the second movie so. If your looking for a great game dont listen to those bad reviews. every thing about this game is great. somepeople say the contols are hard, but they really arent. the only way the will be hard is if you change them. there are some pretty cool places to travel to. the story line is great it has some great moments. it NEVER takes a boring turn there is awlays lots of excitement. there are soo many different wepons to use. even though their are many wepons to choose from i preffer to just knock em out! fighting is awesome! there are many different charicters bad and good. its not too easy to beat the guys up but not to hard. after you beat all the levels there is one more thing to do. in each area there are different artifacts. travel back to uncover them. once your done that you will get a suprise. after you beat this you wont be able to wait for the next one.

"Frustrating But A Lot Of Fun"
I bought this game quite a while ago now, pretty cheaply, & i love it, it can be a game where you can yell & scream if you get so close to the end of 1 stage then you stuff it up & have to do it all over again. The graphics are great, i love the whole feel of the game, the worlds i explore while i am playing it. The most frustrating stage ever is The End-"Von Beck's Revenge" where he is chasing you in a tank & you have to keep constantly jumping, use your whip to wrap around the over head beams above the many pitfalls in the stage, it took me well over 100times to do it, but i finally did it. I just can't wait to finish it. Frustrating game, but a lot of fun to play.

"Quite good but did not go up to my expectations"
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine was no doubt a very good game. The puzzles and level design were ingenious. If there were any complaints, it was that some of the levels were too long and the action was clumsy. Despite having a totally unbelievable plot (ancient mechanical machines from ethereal beings?), it was still interesting.

So then comes Emperor's Tomb. Unfortunately, lucasarts took what was good in the previous game and made it worse. The puzzles aren't really much of a brainteaser. Most people who were challenged with the Infernal Machine puzzles will find the ones here bland and kinda 'dumb'. In conclusion, this game was emphasized to be more action oriented. This isn't necessarily a bad thing if the controls weren't so horrible. It is virtually impossible to position Indy the way you'd like him to be without the camera angles and controls messing you up repeatedly. You have no idea how frustrating it can be to jump off a ledge just to grab a piece of dangling rope. You'll position Indy just perfect for the jump when he all of a sudden changes direction slightly and totally misses the rope. What's even worse is that there is no quicksave feature either; you must complete a level without dying. So basically, if you work hard through a difficult level and accidently fall off a terrace while approaching an exit then yep, you gotta start the whole level over again. This is probably what ticks off a lot of players.

I wish game companies would finally get the point that the save features in games are what really matter to people. Most games with awful save features wind up getting extremely bad reviews.

The game seems too tv-console oriented. These days, just about every game has been watered-down for ease on consoles. Ironically, the PC version of Emperor's Tomb beats the X-box or PS2 version with technical/graphical improvements.

But despite its flaws, the fighting sequences are thrilling. I've never gotten so much satisfaction beating the crap out of people with the classic overblown hollywood punches, guns, and of course the mighty whip. The game also stays closer to the movies and has a far more believable plot.

In the end this is still probably one of the better games to have come out in 2003. If you can stomach the problems, then you'll enjoy this game.

"LeapFrog"
Two thumbs up! Greatest game ever! You should really get this game!
It has amazing graphics! Plus you can play in places such as Ceylon, Prague, Turkey, and Hong Kong, plus this game is way better than the NBA live and Madden Football series. If you get this game I guarentee you will love it!

"Lots of Fun mixed with Lots of Glitches"
For fans of both the Indiana Jones films and avid video game players, the arrival of Indiana Jones and the Emerors Tomb was the event they had been waiting for a LONG time. Well the wait was finally over and we got a game that was a lot of fun but was unfortunately plagued with a LOT of glitces. The term "Cut Scenes" take on a whole new meaning here as many of them abruptly end before characters have even finished talking and many times do not feel smoothly integrated into the play levels. The play levels themselves can be a lot of fun though, with lots of punching, ducking, rolling, swinging, whipping, shooting, and just about everything else you'd expect from an Indiana Jones adventure. But the really cool thing about this game is that it really breaks beyond the usual third person adventure game doldrums (those produce by repetative and redundant running, jumping, shooting, etc.) by really giving you a variety of action throughout the levels that really keeps things interesting. For example, after a level of running and shooting you might go into a level that is played entirely swimming in and under water. Or you might go from an action level into a more puzzle-solving style portion of the game. Some of the funnest or the "trap" level where Indy will fall through a trap door or get stuck in a giant booby-trap from which you must escape by thinking very quickly and being fast on your feet (or thumbs in this case). Lots of fun and very reminicent of the movies.
The down side to this game are the glitches. You will ocasionally get stuck in a corner from which you cant escape (especially in some of the underwater areas) and some of the controls can be a little frustrating but in all fairness these are problems that seam to apply to most games.
As far as the story goes, it's pretty cool and feels like an Indiana Jones movie up until about half way through(lots of arab, asian, and eoropean locations and villains) but at that point the game becomes increasingly more unrealistic with demon creatures, statues coming to life and flying wizards. It would have been cooler if they kept it a little closer to the movies where most of the elements are a little more realistic with just a bit of the supernatural thrown in here and there. But then, this is a video game so it's understandable and the game is still fun to play.
One more small complaint, the voice actore who does Indys voice is not a very good match for Harrison Ford. I'v noticed other reviewers comment on how much he sounds like him and I will admit there are times when he sound very close but there are other times, especially during the cut scenes were you can really tell it's not him. Just a minor gripe but it would have been cool if the guy sounded more like him.
But this really is a fun game over all. If you like third person adventure games you will not have waisted your money if you pick this up. I just wish the company that made this game would do a sequel and iron out the glitches that kept this game from being the ultimate Indiana Jones game experience. Come on Collective! Get crackin' on that new game!