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SINGAPORE: Regardless of your age, it’s always fun playing with Lego bricks, and when that formula is added to a video game, it’s hard to go wrong. And since it’s from the same developer behind the well-received Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga released last year, fans can expect a similar adventure with Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
Lego Indy, which the game is also known as, is a compact adventure that spans the first three movies — Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade. Each movie consists of stages for you to traverse, and you get to indulge in activities involving Lego pieces, such as breaking objects, collecting studs, solving puzzles, building or repairing structures and uncovering treasures.
If you have watched the three movies, it is fun to spot familiar sequences re-enacted in mimes and mumbles. Otherwise, you might miss out on a portion of the entertainment value. It is easy to get addicted as you go from one stage to another and it is likely you can complete your first play-through in a week.
To collect the hidden items in each stage, you have to replay using an unlocked feature called Free Play. That gives you access to a squad of characters, each with unique traits and abilities. For example, female characters can destroy objects with a piercing scream while small characters can enter tunnels and reach new areas. But some characters have weaknesses — such as Indy himself, who is terrified of snakes.
On Xbox 360, the graphics boasts a fantastic blend of three-dimensional environments and Lego pieces. You will feel adventurous exploring a dense jungle of Lego trees, bushes and animals.
The Indy-themed audio is spot on at maintaining the Indy “flavour and tension” and sometimes, you cannot resist humming along to the tune.
But Lego Indy is not without quirks. With a fixed camera angle, you mightexperience a misadventure while making a critical jump or exploring the edge of a ledge. Some puzzles have no clues and could cost you precious play time trying to solve them. And the exclusion of onlineco-operative play means you can only double the fun if your friend is sitting on the same couch with you.
Nevertheless, there is much replayability value and when you eventually unlock a Lego version of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, along with other Star Wars characters, it is simply priceless.
VERDICT
This is another great Lego-themed game and is perfect for parents who want asimple adventure game to play with their children. - TODAY/sh
The writer is an avid gamer who wonders what it’s like to look and live like a Lego character.
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