Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Europe 1938. The Lost Ark was just a warm-up! Now Adolf Hitler is after the most powerful talisman of them all: the Holy Grail. A few brave men stand in his way. Fortunately, one of them is Indiana Jones. And this time, he has his dad with him.
The story of Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade is -again- very good. Toghether with the nice graphics this might be a wonderful game to play.
Note: The zip-file is a sampler of LucasArts Graphic Adventures and it includes also two other LucasArts games: The Secret of Monkey Island and Loom.
Reviewer: Dramagoddess4564
When I was a kid, I used to have to fight with my brother to get the chance to play this game because back then, this was an extremely cool game. Now, twenty years later, it is once again cool because it's "retro". I'm just amazed that so many computer games have survived for so long with all the graphics updates and increased complexity of play.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you start out as Indy, and you are in your father's house that you see has been ransacked, and you must find his diary in order to move on. The game then proceeds in much the same manner as the movie, with a few different scenarios to keep it more interesting. Of course by today's standards the graphics are very clumsy, simple and indistinct. The sound mostly consists of bleeps and blips and music that is very like an extremely computerized synthesizer. The play requirements are not at all complex with ninety percent of the action using your directional keys and the other ten percent consists of typing action commands such as "open", "close" "look in" etc. Also, there is at least one spot where if you don't play it just right, you have to start all over again because the game won't end properly unless you do everything in a specific order. There is a lot of questing and inventory hunting in order to solve puzzles and advance the plot.
However, if you can overlook these shortcomings and you want to take a journey way, way back to your early childhood, this game is awesome. Even if you didn't play it when you were a kid but you want to do a time warp back to the days of Paula Abdul, slap bracelets and Trapper Keepers, rest assured, this will take you back in a microsecond. Are you only seventeen and you don't remember games like this? You should also play this game so you can truly appreciate the versatility, complexity, difficulty and wide avaliability of computer games in this day and age. Sometimes it's difficult even for me to believe that there was a time when it was considered the height of luxury to have any sort of computer at all let alone to have any games on it. Well, I believe kids today can thank the advent of games like Indiana Jones, Oregon Trail, Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego and Math Blaster for being just educational enough to be seen as acceptable to use an extremely expensive peice of equiptment playing.
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