I liked it, except for a couple of things that bothered me... those being the monkey scene, and the whole
aliens
thing. I guess it bothers me the most that you can figure it out 5 minutes in, there's no reveal really. I also didn't think
aliens
didn't really belong in the whole Indy canon thing, but I guess when you look at some of the crazy stuff they had in the last three I suppose it's acceptable. Oh yeah, the
waterfall
was unbelievable too. And how about
the tree they rode down into the water
? I was surprised by the end scene as well. Doesn't seem to fit Indiana Jones' character.
I did like the
nuke
scene, that might be my favorite scene. All the vehicle chase scenes are good too I thought. The
ants
were awesome. I also enjoyed the
spaceship take off, not necessarily because of the ship itself, but watch Ford. He reactions are cool, except for the whole being-half-a-foot-from-death-and-not-trying-to-get-away thing
.
I also enjoyed looking at how Indy4 approached the same myths also approached in
sci-fi shows and interpreting them in
different ways.
It also made me want to play Infernal Machine again, which is also about
aliens from other dimensions
and Russians after them. I mean if they had changed Mayan to Babylonian and made the
aliens bent on human destruction or whatever the hell was up with them
we'd all have been watching Infernal Machine on the big screen really. Speaking of which, anyone know how to get Infernal Machine working on modern hardware? It has a specific list of graphics cards it will run under and refuses to run if it can't find one of them (Hint: It doesn't know about all new cards). Also I recall a freeze bug on XP right after the title logo on the first level but I have to get that far to see if it's still there.