Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
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| Studio | Behavior Interactive (console version), Amaze Entertainment (mobile version) | ||
| Publisher | LucasArts | ||
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2009 | ||
| platform | Wii , PlayStation 2 , Nintendo DS , PlayStation Portable | ||
| genre | Action adventure | ||
| Subject | adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| language | German | ||
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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings is a fantasy and adventure video game published by LucasArts in 2009 for the Wii , Nintendo DS , PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable . It is about the search of the famous fictional US archaeologist for the staff of Moses, the so-called staff of kings.
The game is the third 3D game from the Indiana Jones franchise. The predecessors were Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Imperial Crypt and Indiana Jones and the Tower of Babel . In the Wii version, the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis game can be played as a bonus option.
action
The action of the game takes place in 1939 and depicts Indiana Jones' search for the staff of Moses , the so-called staff of kings. The game begins in Sudan and introduces the Nazi antagonist Magnus Völler. After the hero's first encounter with the game's opponent, an adventure takes the protagonist to the Chinatown of San Francisco, the jungle of Panama , Istanbul in Turkey and ultimately to Nepal .
In a co-op mode there is a level in the Central American jungle, in which Indiana Jones and his father, Professor Henry Jones, both play in parallel in the fight against angry natives and Nazis.
German synchronization
Wolfgang Pampel speaks - as in the films - the role of Indiana Jones. However, Professor Henry Jones, which can be played in the co-op version, is not spoken by Gert Günther Hoffmann , as in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , as he died in 1997.
The missions
bonus
The 1992 point-and-click adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis can be unlocked in the Wii version of the game .
Soundtrack
Long-time LucasArts composers Gordy Haab and Ray Harman composed the soundtrack for the game . They drew on themes by John Williams and Laurence Rosenthal and Joel McNeely's compositions from The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones . A bootleg version of this is available on the Internet.
reception
The game received mixed reviews, from 5 out of 10 stars given by the US video game magazine Game Informer for the Wii version to 82 out of 100 points for the mobile version distributed by the Austrian multi-format game magazine GamingXP . The magazine Computer Bild Spiele judged that the game was “graphically varied and appealing”, but overall only “insufficient”. GamePro judged that the game for the Wii "fails" because of the "control and staging". M! Games wrote that "the new video game is not a sheet of fame".
Scientific analysis
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings tells a serial story just as it was established in the movies. The plot of the video game even resembles a story like the one told in the movies. The creation of worlds like in the films is more important than a realistic simulation.
publication
After the release of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull without an accompanying video game, it was long unclear whether LucasArts would continue working on the video game. In mid-January 2009 there were reports that the game had been discontinued. At the end of January 2009, however, it was announced that the game would now be released - but only for Wii, Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS. A GDC trailer of the game was released in March 2009 . In May 2009, the game's website went online. Publications on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 were planned and partially designed, but have not been developed and published.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings Wii Soundtrack , mixnmojo.com (undated). Retrieved January 3, 2016.
- ^ Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , mobygames.com (undated). Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ^ Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , mobygames.com (undated). Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ Computer Bild Spiele, issue 8/2009.
- ↑ Bernd Fischer: Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings - Review for Nintendo Wii , gamepro.de June 18, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ Ulrich Steppberger: Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , maniac.de June 19, 2009. Retrieved on January 1, 2016. ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manuel Hernández-Pérez / José Gabriel Ferreras Rodríguez: Serial Narrative, Intertextuality, and the Role of Audiences in the Creation of a Franchise: An Analysis of the Indiana Jones Saga from a Cross-Media Perspective , in: Mass Communication and Society, vol . 17 (2014), No. 1, pp. 26–53 (here: p. 43).
- ↑ Michael Obermeier: Indiana Jones - LucasArts continues to tinker with the action game , gamestar.de December 11, 2008. Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ Frank Maier: Indiana Jones - action game allegedly discontinued , gamestar.de January 13, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Obermeier: Indiana Jones and the Staff of the Kings - Leaked Trailer: Only for Wii & DS , gamestar.de January 26, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ Sebastian Thöing: New Indiana Jones game only for Nintendo Wii, DS and Playstation 2 , pcgames.de January 26, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ David Martin: GDC Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , videogameszone.de March 27, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ Denise Bergert: Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings - LucasArts launches official website , gamepro.de May 14, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ Tony Rowe: The canceled XBOX 360 / PS3 version of Staff of Kings is "my" Indy (and here are some of my quick concept sketches for the ice cave in Nepal) , twitter.com June 18, 2019. Retrieved on June 18, 2019. June 2019.
