Oddly enough, they still make gun-like sounds when loaded and the arrows are referred to as "Ammo" like all the other gun's bullets. Automatic Crossbow: The ones used by the Black Dragon members, which Indy can use.Indy can find a Panzerschreck (German equivalent of a Bazooka), but this weapon was only invented in 1943.In 1935 this aircraft was still in prototype so this is Just Plane Wrong. In one section, Indy is attacked by German Bf109 fighters.Oh, and the Mauser 1896 carried by the German soldiers in the Istanbul levels was never standard army issue (though these soldiers may in fact be SS). Even its ancestors, the MP-38 and MP-36, would be anachronistic. That 40 refers to 1940, five years after the game is set. Nazi German troops are equipped with MP-40 sub-machine guns.This custom dates only from the Manchu conquest of China in the 17th century, so it did not exist in Qin Shi Huang's time at all, and it had been abandoned by the period in which the game is set. Chinese men of both the 1930s and circa 210BC are depicted with shaved foreheads and ponytails.Indy can still punch the living daylights out of them, though they can take more punishment than any other standard enemy.
The Black Dragon Guards wear classical Chinese armor. If Mei Ying falls down a bottomless pit, she will jump right back up after a couple of seconds.During the boss fight against the Kraken, the beast will automatically push Indy back to the middle of the arena as it returns to its position behind the pillars, so that Indy can't get devoured by mistake if he's still too close to the area while trying to apply the demo charges.This, however, does not apply to unique items such as Indy's revolver, his whip, the canteen, or puzzle items, as there would be no way of recovering these if they fell into a bottomless pit. If Indy is carrying a weapon, and gets knocked down, he might drop it, allowing his enemies to pick it up and use it against him.The Kraken is an incredibly grotesque octopoid monster with a ring of orange eyes and barbed appendages around his mouth cable of spitting out jellyfish to drag victims to its maws. Animalistic Abomination: The crocodile inside the inner sanctum of Koru Watu is a gargantuan, albino beast which constitutes the last but efficient line of defense of the temple.All Germans Are Nazis: All Germans in the game are members of the SS or the Gestapo, or employed by them.Advancing Boss of Doom: The final confrontation with Von Beck has him pilot a drill tank in order to crush you.Action Prologue: A deliberate Shout-Out to the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark.Action Girl: Mei Ying has serious martial-arts skills, but see Damsel in Distress below.Achilles' Heel: The Kraken can be forced away from his nest by shooting it enough times in the eyes, while the demonic Kong Tien can be defeated by destroying the three Dragon Orbs around him with Pa Cheng after he's stunned and has to lift the barrier.On the way, he must run, puzzle-solve, platform-jump and fight his way past ivory hunters, Nazis, Turkish mercenaries, Nazis, Chinese gangsters, Nazis and Chinese cultists, before finally entering the titular tomb for the climax. The story is set in 1935, just before the events of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and involves a quest to explore the tomb of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, and retrieve the mystical Heart Of The Dragon.Īfter a Forced Tutorial level in the jungles of Ceylon, the quest proper takes Indy to Prague, Istanbul, Hong Kong and on into China.
It was released on February 24th, 2003 for Xbox Note (and it was later made compatible with the Xbox 360 and Xbox One), then ported for Macintosh and Windows on March 25th, 2003, and for PlayStation 2 on June 26th, 2003. Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb is a third-person Action-Adventure game developed by The Collective (using the same engine they developed for Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and published by LucasArts.