Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb

 Xbox
Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 43
  3. Negative: 2 out of 43
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  1. Armchair Empire
    74
    You’ll be looking for opportunities to heave enemies off catwalks or crack them against a wall so Indy can smack them silly.
  2. Xbox Nation Magazine
    70
    Sadly, however, not even the best Indy console game necessarily makes for a great Xbox title. [Apr 2003, p.80]
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  3. GMR Magazine
    70
    While the action runs smoothly, textures and level design are a bit on the simple side, making some of the more ambitious "natural" levels feel a little too grid based. [Apr 2003, p.67]
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  5. Eurogamer
    70
    It's a blast from start to finish and somehow manages to be greater than the sum of its parts. It's perhaps a classic example of the ideal game to rent.
  6. Gamestyle
    70
    It’s just a really good fun game that does not take itself at all seriously and for fans of Dr Jones it is absolutely fantastic and I cannot recommend it high enough.
  7. Electric Playground
    70
    My copy of Emperor's Tomb had occasional moments of severe slowdown and music stuttering. These instances never occurred during a life or death situation, but they were aggravating all the same.
  8. GamerWeb Xbox
    70
    The over emphasis on action and less emphasis on using your wits drags it down to a pretty standard evolution of the Tomb Raider formula.
  9. All Game Guide
    70
    While these are disappointments, there are few games that have you leaning into every jump you make, your heart in your throat each time Indy barely grabs onto a ledge with his fingertips before pulling himself up.
  10. Cheat Code Central
    70
    The graphics themselves are good but not befitting of the Xbox. The gameplay is challenging to an extent but is more targeted at novice gamers.
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  11. Gaming Age
    67
    A poorly done camera is the only true blemish on what is a fantastic game.
  12. XenGamers
    67
    It’s pretty much a given that beating up Nazis is inherently fun, but the developers threw in some truly entertaining wrinkles into the combat to make the Nazi-bashing especially enticing.
  13. GameSpot
    66
    While the game does a lot of things right, severe technical issues surface at almost every turn and really drag down the game's high points, leaving behind a game with tons of untapped potential.
  14. IGN
    61
    It's fun and a bit addictive. But there are a ton of flaws to be found and the puzzle design is so incredibly meager it hurts the game a great deal.
  15. Maxim Online
    60
    Despite the occasionally clunky controls, Emperor’s Tomb does impress with its hand-to-hand brawls (Ms. Croft would be lost without HER weapons) and the free-range exploration allowed within each level.
  16. Yahoo!
    60
    What Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb amounts to is lots of riddles, lots of combat, too many deathtraps and jumping puzzles, and a decent, if contrived story.
  17. G4 TV
    60
    Plays it safe for the most part. It takes familiar gameplay and runs with it, without trying to innovate much beyond the fun brawling.
  18. Cinescape
    50
    Falls short by being vastly repetitive and not offering much new to gamers. A rental at best.

Awards & Rankings

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#82 Best Xbox Game of 2003
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#54 Most Discussed Xbox Game of 2003

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User Score
8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23
  1. emporio2866
    May 23, 2021
    3
    Попробовал пройти и не справился с одной из предтеч современных Анчартедов и Ларисок!

    Игрушка с первого ящика про похождения бравого    Попробовал пройти и не справился с одной из предтеч современных Анчартедов и Ларисок!

    Игрушка с первого ящика про похождения бравого Индианы Джонса была выдана по подписке Live Gold, что есть огромный плюс, ведь в такое старьё поиграть можно только на пк и коробке, благодаря обратной совместимости и это классно.

    Про особенности игры многого не скажу, так как не смог пройти до конца даже первою локацию, ввиду ужасно деревянного управления и олдовых чекпоинтов, когда после неудачи начинаешь всё с начала комнаты… я от такого уже отвык!

    Графон очень даже солидный, даже сейчас не отторгает.

    Паркур уровня первой Лары Крофт с необходимостью выверять каждое движение до миллиметра, иначе провал, посему в ситуациях, когда нужно быстро соображать, не накосячить почти нереально:(

    Боевая система… эээ, ну она, как бы есть, какая же приключенческая игра обходится без драк, только лучше бы я просто скакал по уступам и карабкался по скалам, ибо с подобной реализацией схваток с противниками, будь то врукопашную или со стрельбой, проще было бы тупо платформер сделать, но, как я уже говорил ранее, платформинг также слабоват:(

    Хреновенькая игрушка вышла по итогу, причём, не только в современных реалиях, а в общем и целом, и если в Томб Райдер только паркур бесил своей неказистостью, то к стрельбе с двух рук претензий не было, что позволяло насладиться хотя бы экшоном и решением головоломок, тут же плохо всё!

    Похвалить данную поделку могу лишь за красивые интерьеры помещений с природой и наличие лица Хариссона Форда – реального исполнителя главной роли в киношном аналоге, на этом всё:(((

    Проверка временем успешно завалена, благо LucasFilms в те времена ещё активно заказывали направо и налево игры по Звёздным Войнам, чтобы бренд не простаивал, а там нет-нет, да и выходили хиты, впечатления о которых я потихонечку планирую освежить в памяти, в чём мне поможет нынешняя политика Майкрософт по предоставлению возможности играть в игры со всех своих консолей… надеюсь, Сони тоже перестанут воротить нос от своих же игр с прошлых поколений и запилят толковый эмулятор, дабы ими забытые франшизы, такие как Киллзон, Резистенс, Моторсторм, Инфеймус и многие другие не канули в лету    … Full Review »
  2. Daniel_N
    Feb 11, 2021
    7
    It’s very different compared to other games I’m currently used to. The controls are a little difficult to get used to, and the graphics areIt’s very different compared to other games I’m currently used to. The controls are a little difficult to get used to, and the graphics are not the best. The game can be a little tricky, but it’s made up by the good gameplay.… Full Review »
  3. Xplocion
    Aug 22, 2020
    9
    The good:
    This story we embody the most famous tomb archaeologist and a game that is born from a comment in a movie “don't forget / remember    The good:
    This story we embody the most famous tomb archaeologist and a game that is born from a comment in a movie “don't forget / remember what happened in Shanghai / Seilon” (depends on the translation / localization) that allows you to vaguely relate what happened. Increasing difficulty (first exploration then light confrontations, going through shooting sequences, chases and boss confrontations. Platform in very vertical 3D (your skills with the whip help you to climb or pass platforms here). Good level design, has some secrets.
    It is backwards compatible with Xbox One and Xbox One X (the improvement patches are in both versions but they do not bring the game to 4K)

    The bad:
    The story is semi canon in The Adventures of Indiana Jones. The shooting sequences, the "undefined" platforms that you think you will fall safely but no. The aiming control feels old and I switch to first-person shooting gallery view. If the story does not hook you, you may leave it in the middle. The work to update the game to be backwards compatible on Xbox One / Xbox One X were not enough, they are not 4K Enhancement Patches X, they only stretched the textures and changed the view mode to 16: 9 (not 4: 3 from old tvs, still looks great

    Meh !:
    This game is one of my favorites that I have on a PC with the Spanish Peninsular language and on Xbox in English, if someone in the past assured me that the game on Xbox would have much more life and travel I would never have bought the PC version.
    When talking about Tops about games based on movies and franchises this game never comes out, but I think it is so good that it must not leave the Top 5.
    There are people who claim that Uncharted is what it is for plagiarizing Tomb Rider ... in fact Uncharted plagiarizes this game in mechanics, spectacularity, sequences and development of the plot and ways in how to tell a story.
    The manuals and "things" that the box brings in the Xbox version and in the PC version are very different and it seems that one complements the other    … Full Review »
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