INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1990)____

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the adventure game version of the third -
and best - movie from the INDIANA JONES trioloy. The one with Sean Connery as his
father. It's the year of 1938 and NAZI Germany is after the Holy Grail, the source
of countless legends, myths and - of immortality. You take on the role of
archeologist and swashbuckler Dr. Indiana Jones and emerge on a quest over for the
Grail, covering three continents and hoping to find your mysteriously vanished
father along the way. The game sticks pretty much to the great plot of the movie,
only some areas are reworked for gameplay reasons.

Several important novelties are seen here for the first time, most outstanding is
the new branched dialogue system, later brought to perfection with MONKEY ISLAND.
Upon a question you have a choice of possible answers to give, thus changing the
way things turn out. Despite the mystical background the game is quite funny in
these dialogues (as the movie was), some answers are always good for a laugh, like
the meanwhile classic "Hi, I'm selling these fine leather jackets."-line, featured
in many later Lucasfilm games as a running insider gag.

Another thing new to the genre were the fighting scenes, where you have to control
Indy as in a boxing game. So it's possible to finish the game while leaving
knocked-out bodies behind you - but it's also possible to get cleverly around this
action by using your brain and solving puzzles. So on almost all occasions you
have the choice between a good fistfight or sneakaround, most memorable when you
let the Grail diary sign by Adolf Hitler himself and thus get free passage on all
border stations.

Graphically speaking this was the first Lucas game with a real beauty to it. Gone
are the retro flat graphics from Maniac Mansion or Zack McKracken. Now we get
atmospheric graphics with much more detail, beautiful backgrounds not to mention
more and better animations. It's the first feel of that "Lucas-Look" that made
their games seem lovingly crafted and lavishly detailed. Along with the great
memorable soundtrack a true classic, worth of several times of re-playing to get
all the puzzles, all the action and all the dialogues.

THE GAME

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