Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb - PlayStation 2

If you love Indiana Jones and are a fan of challenging puzzle games then this game is right up your alley. It is understandable that since it is a PS2 game it is a bit dated graphics-wise but it is defiantly worth it playing everyone's favorite archeologist.

This game is a lot of fun and really captures the spirit of the Indiana Jones movies. You get to use his famous whip, battle Nazis, and solve tricky puzzles. Love the music! I definitely recommend this game if you're a fan!

I ordered this game to replace the original that I spent hours playing years before. Popped it into the PS2 and it worked perfectly. Then went back to spending hours on this game again!

my PS3 decided it doesn't want to play PS2 games anymore. Bummer, i really enjoyed this game and was excited to play it again.

Many have already written on this game, so I'll try to avoid repeating what they've said, but ultimately, this game starts out strong and entertaining enough, but settles into a middle-ground groove that's neither bad, nor great, but not all too awe-inspiring as the game goes on.The voice actor for Indiana Jones is passable, but not too convincing -- you can tell it's not Harrison Ford.And unsurprisingly, it dusts off the long-lived stereotype of the dragon lady and at the end, Indiana gets the Asian (i.e. Chinese) girl, even though there's no plausible reason for her to have any sort of feelings for him -- she's little more than a toy doll for him to have his way with.The ending is dull -- both the final boss battle and the ending cinematic are little reward for having ran, swung, punched and kicked your way through level after level, trap after trap.Good if you're an Indiana Jones fan, but others should either rent or stay away altogether.

When this game is good, it's very good indeed, but when it's bad, it's horrid.There's a lot to love here, especially the feel of the game. The voice acting, music, and graphics are spot on, resulting in a truly authentic Indiana Jones experience. When you're pounding the rotkraut out of the Wehrmacht, puzzling out some arcane, stupefying cipher, or dodging the teeth of an outsized, albino crocodile, you feel as if you've been sucked right into an idealized and thoroughly Lucasian version of a 1930s adventure serial.Nevertheless, the pitfalls are many. First of all, Indy has a tendency to get "stuck on things" that can be more than a little frustrating, and I'm not talking about an intentionally built-in hazard either, I'm talking about an honest-to-goodness glitch. Let's say you're dashing across a yawning chasm along a narrow ledge. All of a sudden, you find that you're running in place. As you endeavor, ever so gingerly, to jerk yourself free, you plummet into said chasm, resulting in instant death. Or perhaps you're diving for sunken treasure in a submerged Byzantine palace. You unearth the enigmatic "Kraken Coin" and begin striking out for the surface to catch a precious breath as your oxygen meter fritters away, but once again, you're limbs are moving but you're going nowhere. Well, nowhere but Davy Jones' locker, that is. And since there's no in-game save feature, this means you're starting the entire level over from scratch. And believe me, that can be like pulling teeth. Making sure you time every jump and stick every landing just right can be a lot of fun the first time around...maybe even the second time...but the third time you find yourself starting a 20 minute level over again because the computer got you killed, you're about ready to start sucker-punching random people on the street, especially since this game is slower than molasses in January when loading, so there's that to sit through everytime you restart a level as well.In addition to these gameplay complaints, there are also a few little nitpicks I have to make, but these might not bother you as much as they bothered me. For example, bashing a Turkish goon or a Triad thug with a wine bottle or a table leg does about as much damage as drilling him in the chest with a sub-machine gun. Either way, he'll scramble back to his feet and charge you like a bull.And then there's the agita-inducing gondola level. Never before have I felt more like making it to the end of the stage had less to do with skill and more to do with dumb luck. Here's the scenario: You're on the roof of a gondola in some remote Chinese mountain range where the Nazis have a u-boat base (yeah, I know...). For some reason, the Nazis have outfitted the roof of this particular gondola with an anti-aircraft machine gun that never runs out of bullets, never overheats or locks up, and never has to be reloaded. It's a veritable perpetual motion machine. Just as you kick two cardboard cut-out goosesteppers into the abyss and seize control of this otherworldly gun, the entire Luftwaffe comes roaring out of the skies intent on gunning you down like Doc Holliday on ecstasy. Thank goodness you have the miracle gun and the pilots are keen on putting themselves right in harm's way. You can even shoot them down through solid mountains and the steel scaffolding supporting the gondola! This is some gun, boy, let me tell ya!The only problem is, like the mythical hydra, for every ME-109 you shoot down, two more take it's place. You can seriously shoot down more than twenty planes and still get blasted into oblivion, having to start all over again. Who knew that Hermann Goering ordered fighter wing after figher wing over to China back in '35? No wonder it was so easy for the Allies to establish air superiority in Europe! 2/3 of the Nazi airforce had been annihilated by Indiana Jones from the roof of a Chinese gondola ten years earlier! And you have no control whatsoever over your movement. You just have to wait for the gondola to pull into Shining Time Station on autopilot as wave after wave of German fighters throw themselves at you lemming style.I'll leave aside my assessment of the games ending for the most part, saying only this: Indiana Jones goes to hell and slugs it out with other-dimensional entities and bizarre Chinese demons. Hmmm. I heard they're making a Doctor Strange game the final stage of which consists of the good doctor running through the halls of an ancient Peruvian temple, clutching a golden idol, fleeing from an enormous boulder.All in all, this game is hardly worth the $70, $80, and even $109 some folks are asking for here on amazon. One of the used $10 games should cut it, if you really want to give it a go, but don't say I didn't warn you!

One of my favorite titles for the PS2! The closest you can get to actually BEING Indiana Jones! A "must-have" for your PS2 library, ESPECIALLY if you are an Indiana Jones fan!