Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is both a more “relaxed” Wolfenstein and Riddick plus Nazis | Gaming

MachineGames have made a decent living as the creators of satirical alternate histories in which you messily murder Nazis using mighty double-handfuls of shotgun. There are Nazis to fight in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle – a globe-trotting, tomb-robbing adventure featuring a Lost Ark-era Harrison Ford – but as you’d expect from a Lucasfilm adaptation, there’s rather less of the bloodshed.

Wolfenstein’s antic skullbursting has given way to the clean, Spielbergian “PAF” of Indy’s fist connecting with a fascist jawbone. He’s got a pistol, true, but you’ll rely just as much and more on his whip, which is used both to trip adversaries over and as a means of swinging on things or yanking distant props. And let’s not forget his fancy fedora: there’s a skill that…