INDYJONES.NET REVIEW
...It’s a Traveller’s Tales Lego game and shares most of the strengths and weaknesses of the Star Wars titles. However, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s more excited about a new Indiana Jones game than a Star Wars one, so there must be people who have had no experience with the Lego games and just want to know whether this is a good Indy game or not. Let me get it out the way now: yes, it is...
GENERAL REVIEWS
TheRaider.net
...Oddly, Barnett College and not Marshall College is Indy's base of operations for this game, but that is the only drawback in this truly amazing video game. Fedoras off to the team of engineers and comedy writers who brought this latest edition of the LEGO series to market. This has to be THE best Indiana Jones game ever to be released just for the sheer fun of watching it all play out before your eyes. We at the Hallock home will be playing and replaying this game for a long, long time. The next question we all have is when is the LEGO Crystal Skull coming out!...
GameSpot
...Now that Traveller's Tales has conquered a galaxy far, far away, it has set its sights on giving a Lego makeover to a more terrestrial franchise. Lego Indiana Jones: The Complete Trilogy lets you reenact the key scenes from the first three Indiana Jones movies, with a blocky twist only Lego can provide. The idea of children's building toys pasted atop action-packed adventures may seem strange--and seeing a Lego monkey is rather unnerving--but the enduring charm of the movies is the perfect foundation for some small-scale tomb robbing. The surprise is, even without a nostalgic-powered handcuff fastening you to these stories, the seamless co-op and clever puzzles should be enough to draw even the Indy ignorant into the experience...
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Eurogamer
...Whereas puzzles in LEGO Star Wars tended to be a simple matter of using the right character to reach a switch, this is a much more involved adventure. For example, you might use a shovel to dig an item out of the ground and discover that it's a cog needed to operate the machine that in turn opens the gate to the next area. Except once the cog is replaced you might then need to find a spanner to actually fix the mechanism. But the spanner is in the hands of a cheeky monkey up on an unreachable ledge, so you need to find a banana and throw it to him in exchange for what you need.
Okay, for us grown-up players it's a fairly obvious series of miniature fetch-quests, but for the intended young audience it's smartly paced and encourages plenty of lateral thinking. There's room for free thinking, but everything is constrained by logical parameters that prevent things getting frustrating...
Xbox World 360
...While die-hard fans of the classic Indiana Jones films will find the Original Trilogy much more rewarding than ignorant players, drop the license from the product and Lego Indy would still be a bit of a hoot. In Lego Indiana Jones Traveller's Tales have crafted a game so well designed that its appeal stretches far beyond the boundaries of its subject matter...
IGN
...Traveller's Tales has once again delivered an experience that boils down to smashing stuff over and over again while searching for secrets, while also managing to make that formula fun and addictive. It's certainly not a huge leap over the LEGO Star Wars titles, and in fact still has some of that series' issues, but it's no less enthralling and certainly a fun adventure worth taking on...
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NINTENDO DS REVIEWS
Pocket Gamer
...In combining the resonant childhood world of Lego with equally powerful movie licences, Traveller's Tales has something of a Holy Grail in its hands: a series of games that deliver massive sales with simple, strong and wholesome gameplay to boot. When the entire Star Wars saga was Lego-fied we couldn't get enough, but if anything Lego Indiana Jones is consistently better than its predecessors...
N-Europe
...Having spent a good amount of time tweaking the mechanics of previous Lego titles (and hitting the nail on the head with Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga) means Indiana Jones plays well with an excellent structure and an enticing multiple play-through notion. A system which perfectly suits the DS. Bitesize missions, touch screen interaction and co-operative play are also a perfect fit for the platform and are handled with aplomb...
