Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Dr Jones will steal your heart in MachineGames' best effort to date

- TED LITCHFIELD

I WASN'T OVER the moon about the prospect of a triple-A Indiana Jones game before starting The Great Circle.

A new MachineGames joint-now that's something I'd hang my hat on. But Dr Jones? How many stories could there be left to tell about the Connecticut-based archeologist named after Illinois' weird little neighbor? Well, it turns out that he had at least one damn good videogame left in the tank.

Rather than ultraviolence of Wolfenstein, The Great Circle is all about more brandappropriate stealth, hand-to-hand brawling, exploration, and puzzle solving.

There are guns, but limited ammo makes them more situational tools the dual-wielding The Great Circle has simple, line-ofsight stealth, meanwhile, without much in the way of sound propagation, visibility control, silent ranged takedowns, or tools for keeping track of enemies. None of that stuff is particularly Indiana Jones, but only one of The Great Circle's stealth levels feels tailor-made to these limitations.