Chart Track reports that Metal Gear Solid 4 has lost its place at the top of the All Formats All Prices UK video game chart after only one week at No.1. It's Activision's LEGO Indiana Jones which returns to the top for a second week.
LucasArts have quelled fears of the next Indy game which is features NaturalMotion's Euphoria animation engine, arriving on Xbox360 and PS3.
A solid week of new games kicks off the summer release calendar! Highlights include Ninja Gaiden II (Xbox 360), GRID (PS3, Xbox 360, PC), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, DS, PC), and a few other gems.
VG247: Activision just put out a Lego Indiana Jones fact sheet that claims more than 60 characters are playable in the game, including Marion Ravenwood, Short Round, Rene Belloq, Willie Scott, Marcus Brody, Jones Senior and Mola Ram.
MCV: Though many of the release dates to emerge from last month's Play.com Live have proven unreliable, the date hinted for Lego Indiana Jones has been confirmed ¿ with the title is due for release in Europe on June 6th.
London consumer show Play.com Live has given a Lego Indiana Jones Europe date as June 6 in a press release, the first mention of a specific date. The game has been confirmed as a June 3 release in the US.
LEGO's Indiana Jones Museum has a new Flash game that will give you a taste of what lies ahead in Traveller's Tales' LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. The flash game undoubtedly plays in no way like the retail version, but it offers a peek at the aesthetic one can expect from the upcoming title. The link below will take you directly to the game.
"'LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures' will feature the user friendly drop-in/drop-out two-player cooperative feature that players have come to know and love," the game's producer, Shawn Storc, said to MTV Multiplayer in an e-mail provided by LucasArts public relations. "However, we are not expanding this feature to a higher player count. I certainly do apologize for any confusion that has arisen; we must have been in a LEGO induced haze at the Collector's Party."
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures will support up to four player co-operative play on console versions of the game, LucasArts has revealed. While the puzzles are designed around two player co-operation, up to four characters can journey together through eighteen levels parodying the original movies. The game will focus more on adventuring and puzzle-solving than the action-orientated play of the previous LEGO Star Wars titles. ...
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CVG writes:
Gameplayer are reporting that the next game in the LEGO video game series is set to hit a lot earlier than expected.
Closing out its conference at Comic-Con, LucasArts announced Lego Indiana Jones: The Videogame will ride on to consoles in 2008. As with Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones will parody three Indiana Jones movies, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Lego Indiana Jones will developed by the same team behind the Lego Star Wars games and feature the same style of quirky humor and familiar movie moments rendered in children's building blocks.