Call me crazy, but Lego Indiana Jones is just not good at all...
The Bad: Bad Camera, Occasionally Frustrating Gameplay, Not Much Difference from LSW, Dry Humor, Bad Ally A.I.
Now, everyone has opinions and I'm just stating mine, but Lego Indiana Jones just is downright disappointing. It's a total letdown that has me worried about Lego Batman's fate. Lego Indy is more of a slight upgrade to Lego Star Wars and dosen't really bother to fix some of the issues from the past games. My opinion is that they could have done better than this.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is based on the original Indy Trilogy which includes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade, but now in Lego Form. As in the Lego Star Wars series, there is a lot of humor to the games, which is apparent in this game, but to tell you the truth I found it quite dry and not always funny. It also takes liberties on the story to make a game, one of which is the Indy fighting the Grail Knight at the end of Last Crusade as he searches for the Holy Grail. Now, I know he's a Knight and It's his job to protect the Grail, but I don't think he'd fight a good guy like Indy and it definitely wasn't in the movie.
Like Lego Star Wars, you collect minkits to build Artifacts, max out your stud counter, and unlock extra levels, but most of the going back is repetitive. I know it's there to add replay value, but I hate going back through levels just to find stuff that the game won't let you get the first time through. You can also pick up items to use like shovels and wrenches, but it's not very appealing. Finally, they have much more challenging puzzles to solve in game, but they can be downright annoying. The puzzles are not all hard, but some are to the point of a obvious solution not being so obvious at all. If you're not so good with puzzles, than stay away from this game.
My major gripe with this game is the horrible camera. I put up with it in the first two Lego Star Wars games, the Complete Saga could have corrected it, but it is stupid not to correct it in here. The camera will sometimes make it hard for you see things and screw around with you when jumping. Players of the last games will know what I'm talking about.
I don't know what it is, but Lego Indiana Jones just didn't seem like Indy to me. It's probably worth a rental, but I guarantee you that it's not worth a Buy, especially after playing through the game and getting 100% complete, it's not worth going back for replay a second time, thus making the purchase useless.