Indiana Jones whips Nazis and looks for a Great Circle in the trailer for his new video game
Indiana Jones is coming back for a new video game later this year from the Wolfenstein developers
MachineGames, the developers behind Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, are experts in making video games about punching Nazis, so it makes sense that they were tasked with developing Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, a brand new first-person action game starring pop culture’s most famous puncher of Nazis. Microsoft showed off the first real trailer for the game during an Xbox announcement stream today, revealing its title, release window (this year!), and the first footage of how whipping goons is going to work in first-person.
It all looks very Indiana Jones, with some swinging and climbing and puzzle-solving in between the action stuff (which included Indy jumping from the wing of one plane to the wing of a Japanese fighter), plus there’s an appearance from the great Marcus Brody and a well-placed Wilhelm scream (Indiana Jones stories are the one place where that overplayed Easter egg is still acceptable). The developers explained during the Xbox stream that the game takes place between Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, which mostly just means that the Nazis are still spreading their evil around the world and that Indy is supposed to be a college professor when he’s not tomb-raiding, and it looks like it’s going to be an appropriately Indiana Jones-y globe-trotting journey as Indy investigates whatever the heck the Great Circle is.
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle will be available on Xbox and PC (and that’s probably it, since Microsoft owns MachineGames through its parent company Bethesda) at some point this year. And if you’re wondering, that does look like Harrison Ford’s face, but it’s not his voice. EW says it’s actually Troy Baker from The Last Of Us, which makes sense because it sounds just like him.