History VideoGame / IndianaJonesAndTheInfernalMachine

''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine'' is a 3D action-platformer game based on the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' film series, developed for the PC by Creator/LucasArts and published in November 1999. Ports were subsequently developed by Factor 5 and [=HotGen=] for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 and UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor respectively.

* DirtyCommunists: These play the role of the Nazis, years before [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the fourth movie]].

* MadeOfExplodium: If the game wants to get rid of an entity without it being shot, then it explodes. A broken bamboo walkway falling into lava? Explosions. A mook trips and falls into lava? He explodes. A minecart plunges into a pit? It explodes. [[spoiler:Quetzalcoatl, the giant snake boss of the Olmec Valley level, dies in a series of explosions that destroy each segment of its body.]]

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Indy can hop across stone blocks floating in lava with no ill effects. He only dies horribly if he actually comes into contact with lava. The same goes for enemy {{Mooks}} (who [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] if they touch lava).

* RedemptionEarnsLife: Volodnikov, after cancelling the search for Marduk, survives the game and walks away with Indie and Sofia in the desert.

** In Volodnikov's first scene, a message from his superiors reminds him that "Socialist Theory disavows the existence of supernatural powers." [[spoiler:At the end of the game, when Indy reveals to him that God was not on the other side of the portal, he remarks that "Socialist Theory disavows the existence of supernatural powers."]]

* FunWithAcronyms: There's an arbitrary rating under gameplay options called the Indy Quotient.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: A little into King Solomon's Mines, a Russian minecar will enter the system. After a chase sequence it appears as a little green dot pinging around on the mine's network map, and Indy comments on it. However he won't ever see it again [[spoiler:until he accidentally makes it crash]] because the rail network has no passing places, so it would be constantly phasing through Indy's minecar whenever he's stopped.

* EmergencyWeapon: Indy has three weapons with infinite ammo but not a whole lot of damage output -- [[GoodOldFisticuffs his bare hands]], his {{whip|ItGood}}, and his {{revolver|sAreJustBetter}}. Eventually he gains a fourth: a machete, which does solid damage, but obviously only up-close - its main use is the boring reality of cleaning paths in thick foliage and cutting ropes, although it has some niche usage in being the only one of Indy's weapons to be viable underwater.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Indy's whip. Awesome, because it's Indy's whip, and it can be used to disarm Communists. Impractical because it's very slow.

''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine'' is a 3D action-platformer game based on the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' film series, developed for the {{PC}} by Creator/LucasArts and published in November 1999. Ports were subsequently developed by Factor 5 and [=HotGen=] for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 and UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor respectively.

* ObviousBeta: The N64 version. One of the most memorable glitches had to be the fact that in one level, when you tried to drop into a cave since access seemed impossible, when Indy fell in the water and you tried to resurface, he just swam through the air. Effective for getting in the cave, but he just drowned.

* SpoiledByTheManual: the manual for the PC version contains the pictures, names and backgrounds of all the bosses in the game, up to and including the final boss, as well as its true nature. It even shows Indy with an electrically charged whip, which you don't get until the very end of the game. However, it stops short of spoiling [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Turner's betrayal]]]]. The N64 manual omits all of this.

* SpoiledByTheManual: the manual for the PC version contains the pictures, names and backgrounds of all the bosses in the game, up to and including the final boss, as well as its true nature. It even shows Indy with an electrically charged whip, which you don't get until the very end of the game. [[spoiler:However, it stops short of spoiling [[FaceHeelTurn Turner's betrayal]]]]. The N64 manual omits all of this.

Indiana Jones is hard at work in Utah, doing some archaeology (and not finding a lot) when old flame [[Videogame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis Sophia Hapgood]] drops in on him to elicit his help investigating a strange machine part and [[DirtyCommunists Russian activity]] in Babylon. Soon Indy finds himself travelling to the four corners of the earth in search of more machine parts, before the Russians do something everybody's going to regret.

* TranslationConvention: Volodnikov's dialogue is in English even when it would make more sense for it to be in Russian. This causes a problem in Babylon when he refers to a 'plane', his radio operator assumes he means an airplane, and Volodnikov upbraids him for not understanding he means a plane in the dimensional sense. As the two are - canonically - speaking Russian this exchange makes no sense. In Russian the word for a plane is самолет (pronounced sam-uh-lyot) whereas in the mathematical or physics sense the word for plane is уровень or слой (pronounced oo-ruh-vyen and sloy respectively), meaning there is no way the radio operator would ask whether such a plane was 'Soviet or American' but instead might ask how deeply they need to dig to reach this 'level' or 'layer.'

* EmergencyWeapon: Indy has three weapons with infinite ammo but not a whole lot of damage output -- [[GoodOldFisticuffs his bare hands]], his {{whip|ItGood}}, and his {{revolver|sAreJustBetter}}. Eventually he gains fourth: a machete, which does solid damage, but obviously only up-close - it's main use is the boring reality of cleaning paths in thick foliage and cutting ropes.

* AngelicAbomination: Marduk, the Babylonian god, is revealed to actually be a strange EnergyBeing from an equally strange realm known as the Aetherium, which is home to several other EnergyBeings. He is also capable of possessing the bodies of mortals, and compelled the Babylonians to build the Infernal Machine so he could conquer Earth.

* StealthBasedMission: The V.I. Pudovkin starts with Indy stripped of all his weapons and gear. He is forced to make good use of trickery and [[{{Invisibility}} Taklit's part]] to slip by the guards and retrieve his belongings.

* ShiftingSandLand: Meroë is in the middle of the Egyptian desert.

* EmergencyWeapon: Indy has three weapons with infinite ammo but not a whole lot of damage output -- [[GoodOldFisticuffs his bare hands]], his {{whip|ItGood}}, and his {{revolver|sAreJustBetter}}.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The subtitles are different colors depending on who's speaking.