A Game Review: Indian Jones DVD Adventure Game

Jack and Katrina have become Indiana Jones fans in recent weeks. And Jack saw this game by Best Buy at Hasbro and has been asking me about it for the last month. So yesterday I got it and today the three of us played it. The game took us about 2 hours. Like Scene It, it is fun seeing the movie clips from the show.

The game is designed for 2-4 players. There are traps, secret passageways, and chances for battle as well as the opportunity to discover all three relics from the first three movies. There are Fortune and Glory Cards, boulders you can put in the paths of your opponents, gold coins and medallions. You build the temple of relics as you play. It is a combination board game and DVD game.

I was pretty frustrated with it. It required memory skills I didn't have and speed with the DVD remote that I didn't have. I didn't succeed in obtaining any of the relics though I tried numerous times. The children became frustrated as well. Getting the Ark was particularly difficult. But when it was all over, they wanted to play again. I wanted to run away....

Unlike a game like Monopoly, this game to me, seems to have a short life span. The basics don't change. The order you obtain the relics changes, the way you build the temple changes. The cards you get change. But the challenges don't change. Play it enough times and it should become second hat. I am not opposed to the kids having some frustration in their lives. After all, in a world where it seems so much comes so easily, it is good fro them to have to overcome frustration, even better if they can learn to do it with a smile.

I give the game a 2.5 out of 5 possible stars. It is fun and the kids are overall enjoying it. But, for the price and the amount of life I see this game having in our house, it wasn't worth the 24.95 we paid for it. If you can get it on eBay or borrow it from a friend, that would be my suggestion.