Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets whipcracking gameplay reveal

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The upcoming Indiana Jones game features Troy Baker as the whipcracking, fedora-wearing adventurer. 

Wolfenstein: The New Order developer MachineGames has finally unveiled gameplay for its highly-anticipated Indiana Jones game, now titled Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The game is being produced by Starfield game director Todd Howard and looks as authentic to the movie franchise as it gets, featuring Indy in his Nazi-punching, whipcracking prime as he embarks on another globetrotting adventure. 

The action-adventure game will launch on Xbox Series X|S and PC sometime in 2024. Watch the trailer below:

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle’s big gameplay reveal

Today’s Xbox Developer Direct finally pulled the curtain back on MachineGames’ Indiana Jones game, which was first unveiled back in 2021. A new gameplay trailer dropped during the show revealed that it would be a mostly first-person game much like MachineGames’ other Nazi-killing franchise Wolfenstein, though we also see plenty of Indy in the third-person as he uses his whip to swing across gaps and talk during cutscenes. 

While the first-person perspective does set it apart from Naughty Dog’s Uncharted a little, the rest of it looks very similar: Indy has plenty of puzzles to solve in abandoned tombs and caves as he travels the globe to unearth an ancient mystery. One puzzle has Indy stick a hand into a hole filled with spiders while another has him move cogs around to open a gate. Some of these puzzles will be present in the main story, but most will be optional activities players can choose to take on if they explore. 

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, where Indy is racing against sinister forces to solve an ancient mystery. The game will take Indy to the halls of the Vatican, the deserts of Egypt, the sunken temples of Sukhothai and the peaks of the Himalayas. He’ll be joined by a few former allies like Marcus Brody from The Last Crusade, and new characters like an investigative reporter named Gina Lombardi. The game’s big bad is the evil Emmerich Voss and his Nazi underlings. 

During combat, we see Indy using his whip, his pistol and his bare fists much like in the movies, but he can also stealth through enemy encounters if he wishes to get by unharmed. Don’t expect Harrison Ford to play a de-aged version of himself, though - clearly, Dial of Destiny was his last attempt at that. Troy Baker (The Last of Us, Death Stranding) will play Indy this time around. Tony Todd (Candyman, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2) also plays a man called Locus.