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Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb is an action video game developed by The Collective and published by LucasArts in 2003 featuring cover art by Drew Struzan. The game is a new adventure of fictional archeologist Indiana Jones. The story is set in 1935, just before the events of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and is available for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Macintosh and Windows.
[edit] PlotIndiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb begins in the jungles of Ceylon, where Indiana Jones is searching for the idol of Kouru Watu. After retrieving the idol, Indy meets a Nazi named Albrecht Von Beck, who is attacked by a giant alligator, allowing Jones to escape. Back at school in New York City, Chinese officials Marshall Kai Ti Chan and his assistant Mei Ying inform Dr. Jones of the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl buried with the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. Mei Ying breaks open the Ceylon idol to find the first piece of the "Mirror of Dreams", an artifact that will help navigate through the Emperor's Tomb and reveal the entrance to Huangdi's crypt. Indy flies to a castle in Prague to acquire the second piece of the mirror, only to be captured by Von Beck and his men. Jones wakes up in a cell in Istanbul when Mei Ying appears and frees him. He makes his way to the sunken palace of Belisarius to collect the final piece of the mirror. Mei Ying appears again and tells him that Kai is working with the Nazis to get the Mirror for himself and control the Heart of the Dragon. At the Golden Lotus Opera House in Hong Kong, Mei Ying and Indy wait for Wu Han, a character from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. When Mei Ying is kidnapped by Kai's men, Indy and Wu Han chase them down to the dock, where they discover that they are heading to Kai's private island. Wu Han and Indy follow them in a junk. Fighting Nazis and using disguise, Indy makes his way to the peak of Penglai Mountain, the site of the Black Dragon Fortress, where he finds Mei Ying guarded by the Feng twins, Kai's female bodyguards. After killing the twins, he falls down a shaft into the temple of Kong Tien, where he finds a magical Chinese boomerang-like weapon called the Pa Cheng. Indy finds Kai assembling the Mirror of Dreams and sacrificing Mei Ying to the demon, Kong Tien, who possesses Mei Ying. Indy frees her and escapes with the mirror to the Emperor's Tomb. In the temple, Indy escapes from Von Beck, who is pursuing in a tank, and enters a portal to the Netherworld. After crossing a Netherworld Great Wall of China, he finally finds Huangdi's crypt and the body of Qin Shi Huangdi. When Indy takes the Heart of the Dragon, the emperor awakens, and Kai takes the pearl from Jones. He uses its power to summon a dragon to battle Indy, creating a shield to protect himself. Jones uses the Pa Cheng charged with mystical energy to penetrate the shield and destroy the Heart of the Dragon, at that moment Kai loses control of the dragon, then spirits of his victims rise and mistake Kai as the first Emperor of China, Indiana Jones and Mei Ying flee, as Kai is eaten by the dragon. Back in Hong Kong, Indiana Jones gets to share some romantic time with Mei Ying, but Wu Han is quick to remind Indy that Lao Che has hired them to find the remains of Nurhachi, leading into the opening of Temple of Doom. [edit] GameplayThe player controls Indy throughout the game. The player can make Indy climb up walls by running into them, and climb vines (all similar to Hitman: Blood Money). The game uses the same combat engine as in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Indy can block some attacks. He can grab enemies and punch them. Indy can use his whip to go on zip-lines, or swing along objects. He can jump and shimmy along edges. [edit] MusicThe game's score was composed by Clint Bajakian, utilizing The Raiders March by John Williams. Thirty-three minutes of music were recorded by a 65-piece orchestra at the Bastyr University Chapel. Additional, synthesized music - mostly in the realm of softer, non-action music - was created by Bajakian. Samples of the score were for a time available for download on the game website. [edit] References
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