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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 689071" data-attributes="member: 151">Yes it is, on this month's Official Xbox Magazine DVD.  I've played it, and it's pretty fun.  It's from the same team that designed the Buffy The Vampire Slayer game, with more variety and a more colorful palette.  It's clearly more of an action game than a puzzle game, and if you're looking for 'Atlantis', you'd best look elsewhere.  This is clearly a rock'em-sock'em "slugging it out on the top of the tank" sort of game.Personally, I enjoyed the heck out of grabbing some poor thug by the shirt, lifting him up and popping him with a manly right hook...but that's just me.  Indy is definitely more agile and versatile this time out than previous incarnations, but all the tropes are there (i.e. swinging from the whip, climbing, swimming, and ancient cities to plunder).My only complaint from my brief exposure to the demo was the clipping errors I saw, which are forgivable, if not thrilling.  Me,  I liked it, but if you're looking for an adventure game, you're going to be sorely disappointed, methinks.  Personally, considering how badly Lucasarts tends to mess up most StarWars license games, I'll take the general overall quality of almost all of the Indy games.  I rarely feel like the soul is leaving my body while playing them...something I can't say about for all but three Star Wars games (namely Empire for the Atari, Dark Forces, and Jedi Knight II).</blockquote>