Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
1947. The Nazis have been crushed, the Cold War has begun and Soviet agents are sniffing around the ruins of the fabled Tower of Babel. What are they up to? The CIA wants renowned archaeologist and adventurer…
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is an adventure developed by LucasArts, released 23 November 1999 on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1999. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is a 1999 action-adventure video game developed and published by LucasArts. The first 3D installment in the series, its gameplay focuses on solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and completing various platforming sections. The story is set in 1947, after the events of Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, and puts the eponymous protagonist, the adventurer Indiana Jones, against the Soviet Union. In a race for a mythological Babylonian power source, he joins forces with the Central Intelligence Agency and collects four pieces of the Infernal Machine, an ancient device that allegedly opens a portal to another dimension.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Indiana Jones series
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is the 17th of 34 entries we hold in the Indiana Jones series. It arrived 4 years after Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures. The next entry was Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine in 2001. Its critic score of 90 is 15 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c and 256 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine launched on 23 November 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and Quake III Arena. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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