Have you ever wondered what Indiana Jones & The Great Circle might have looked like as a classic LucasArts adventure game? Well, wonder no more.
The amazing animators and video game enthusiasts over at 64 Bits have put together an awesome proof-of-concept demake video of MachineGames critically acclaimed Indiana Jones title, imagining what the first-person may have looked like if it had been released in the same year as the Fate of Atlantis as a traditional point-and-click adventure.
The video is now available to watch on YouTube and Newsgrounds and depicts various memorable scenes from the game (some of which will inevitably be considered spoilers if you're holding out for the PS5) rendered in a 2D pixellated aesthetic. For instance, we see the initial break-in at Marshall College that kicks off the events of the game, as well as the scene featured in the official gameplay reveal trailer where Indy is buried up to his neck in the desert and left for dead.
As you may expect, the video brings back the iconic verb interface and inventory from Fate of Atlantis and even has an appearance of a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle for the Monkey Island fans among you. It all looks super incredible, and we can't help but wish it was something that was actually playable as we'd happily experience the entire game this way.
It seems we're not alone in this either, with the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (and Return to Monkey Island) executive producer Craig Derrick taking to Twitter/X to show their support for this remarkable fan project:
"Stop everything and check this out — the @64BitsAnimation team just reimagined Indiana Jones and the Great Circle as a classic LucasArts-style adventure, and it's pure gold! This is super cool and seriously impressive work. I need to play the whole game like this now!"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is already available on Xbox Series X|S now and is scheduled to launch on PS5 on April 17th.
[source youtube.com]
Comments 11
I agree with his sentiment. That looks incredible!
This is pretty good!
Is that dialogue actually by Ford?
I might be wrong. Or crazy. Or paranoid.
But parts of this have the whiff of AI.
(And if I'm wrong, then this is exactly what I predicted - a form of AI psychosis where one can no longer tell what is real or not.)
@Sketcz It's Troy Baker who does Indy's voice. He did such an amazing job it's hard to tell the difference even in the actual game. Then again Troy is such an amazing voice actor.
They’ve absolutely nailed the look and also the interpretation of the original scenes
I want more retro style lucasfilm games. Thimbleweed Park was probably my favorite.
@Sketcz it’s psychosis! They took the audio straight from the modern game
@Sketcz Its the same voice overs from the real game. A hurp a derp derp derp derp.....
@jamesamong007
What real game? A game for a modern system I don't own, haven't followed, wasn't even aware existed until now, and was too lazy to look up and compare?
That real game?
Fair enough I guess.
Very well done. Great Circle is a game I really want to like, but that combat is atrocious. Apparently I've gotten pretty far because I recognize most of the scenes in that video... (or maybe everyone quits when I did. haha.)
@Tasuki I’m genuinely convinced Troy Baker is IRL Clayface cause bro can do literally ANY voice and do it damn near perfectly. I normally have a problem with ppl voicing a super large ammount of characters and constantly getting hired for projects but that dude’s vocal range is so unreal im all for it every time
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