Yesterday, the gaming world was surprised when Lucasfilm Games announced that a new Indiana Jones game is coming from Wolfenstein: The New Order developer MachineGames. Very little has been revealed about the game other than that it will tell an original story, but fans quickly put out their magnifying glass and began researching the game’s debut preview, and they found interesting things. You can watch an HD YouTube version of the preview trailer below.
Indy’s desk is littered with all sorts of historical bric-a-brac, but the most telling items are a map to Rome, dated 1937, and a map of the Vatican.
I know you do not read much about the Indiana Jones game, but I’m going to read it anyway. It looks like Indy was on his way to Rome in 1937 according to the Vatican’s map, typewriter and map. Which would put the game after Ark & Temple, but before Crusade. pic.twitter.com/KLVMQbzPSl
– Leon Hurley (@LeonHurley) 12 January 2021
1937 places the new Indiana Jones game shortly after the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark, so this is the first Indy we are dealing with. 1937 is also the year after Mussolini declared an alliance with Hitler’s Germany, so yes, if in doubt, Indy will punch Nazis with whatever fist he goes on. The map to Rome and the Vatican map suggest that the search may include some mysteries in the Da-Vinci Code and perhaps another attempt to gather a religious remnant of some kind. In other words, it’s a classic Indiana Jones story – no strangers, Shia LaBeouf or any other weirdness here.
In related news, Bethesda, VP of marketing, Pete Hines, assured fans that Todd Howard will take on a producer role in the new Indiana Jones game, not distract his attention from Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 …
Todd is currently EP in many BGS and other projects, such as the Fallout TV show. His main focus remains directing the upcoming Starfield and TES6 games, which are not affected by today’s news.
– Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) 12 January 2021
A release date and platforms have yet to be confirmed for the Indiana Jones game. According to insiders, the game is unlikely to be an exclusive Xbox, although Microsoft now owns MachineGames.