Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game
213K plays 1992 #Action
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts and released in June 1992 for Amiga, DOS, and Macintosh. Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects. The seventh game to use the script language SCUMM, Fate of Atlantis has the player explore environments and interact with objects and characters by using commands constructed with predetermined verbs. It features three unique paths to select, influencing story development, gameplay and puzzles. The game used an updated SCUMM engine and required a 286-based PC, although it still runs as a real-mode DOS application. The CD talkie version required EMS memory enabled to load the voice data. An alternate version, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game, was released simultaneously, featuring a similar story but more combat-focused gameplay.
From Wikipedia's article Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
5.0 Outstanding!
Critics 93 · 14 reviews
Review scorecard
- Graphics 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Critics 93 · 14 reviews. Overall source The same 93/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores.
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What the critics said
Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World in September 1992 praised its setting for containing the "right combination of gravity, silliness, genuine scholarship and mystical mumbo-jumbo", and called it a "strong enough storyline to hold its own next to any of the Indy films".
— Computer Gaming World (Charles Ardai)
He concluded that "LucasArts has done an impeccable job... a must-see".
— Computer Gaming World, 1993
In 2008, Retro Gamer magazine praised it as "a masterful piece of storytelling, and a spellbinding adventure".
— Retro Gamer, 2008
The editors called it "a sumptuous feast for adventure and Indy fans alike".
— PC Gamer, 1994
In 1998, PC Gamer declared it the 41st-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "a milestone achievement for LucasArts, this genre's greatest exponent, and it remains required playing for adventurers everywhere".
— PC Gamer, 1998
Andy Nuttal of Amiga Format wrote that the puzzles are very well thought-out and noted that the game is "littered with elements that are genuinely funny".
— Amiga Format (Andy Nuttal)· about another version
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- Adventure Gamers 2003 4.5/5
- Aktueller Software Markt 1992 92/100
- Amiga Computing 88%
- Amiga Format 1993 92%
- Amiga Power 9/10
- Commodore User 1993 90%
- Dragon 5/5
- Gamervision 10/10
- Just Adventure 2000 A+
- Metzomagic 1996 5/5
- PC Format 83%
- PC Review 1992 9/10
- The One 88%
- Zero 1992 95/100
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
Players' rating: 80/100 · 478 votes
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