Test - Indiana Jones and the large circle: also a pleasure on the PS5?

The fact that Microsoft Game Studios manages the exclusivity of the Xbox games is indeed good news for Playstation owners, who are now also enjoying some very good games. One of them is undoubtedly Indiana Jones and the large circle of Machine Games, the creators of Wolfenstein. The game surprised at the end of last year with a lot of indy flair and good technical implementation. More than four million copies have now passed over the counter (more or less because of a game pass) and with the release of the PS5 version, it should be much more.

We briefly summarize what is Indiana Jones and the big circle. The action takes place in 1937, ie between the films "Hunter of the Lost Treasure" and "Indiana Jones and the last crusade", whereby the intro is a nice tribute to the first film and immediately gives the right feeling. Indy works again in Marshal College. When it is broken down there, Indy comes across a secret, the so -called large circle, which the Nazis also want to get into their hands.

The hunt for this mystery leads the archaeologist from the Vatican to Giza and the Himalaya to Siam to iconic locations that were implemented with a lot of flair. The game combines classic elements such as puzzles, fights and explorations with new mechanics such as the use of disguises. In the fights, the game mainly relies on attacks and melee fights with fists and whip from the first person perspective, firearms are rarely used.

The half -open areas are quite extensive, but do not slain you with content, but reveal your secrets well -dosed and without tiring before going into the next sections. In addition, there are many optional items to discover and an upgrade system ensures that Indys can gradually improve. All of this is not too difficult and is a lot of fun, especially if you can flabbore nazis and fascists with a frying pan, brooms and everything that is currently tangible.

The staging is ready to film that the makers of the last two Indy films have to pale with envy. Action, staging and cutscenes move at an incredibly high level and contain all elements that can be expected from an Indy adventure, from clever dialogues to crispy puzzles to sometimes insane, self-ironic action, many allusions to the films and exactly the humor that has made us so sympathetic to Indiana Jones.

If you want to go into a little more detail, it will be ours at the timerecommended. At this point we don't want to go into too much detail again. In terms of content and play, all versions are identical.

Above all, however, that Machine Games showed the game very impressively without neglecting the performance. Indiana Jones and the large circle already ran impressively smoothly on PC and Xbox and has received some patches since then, recently a few days ago one that even brought some new skills for Indy into play, paired with some bug fixes and improvements in playability. So PS5 players enjoy the now very well revised version.

Of course, this also brings with it some extras. The support for the dualense controller including adaptive triggers and haptic feedback was well integrated. The Lightbar on the controller even shows the game status, for example by glowing red when Indy is injured and has to be healed. Raytracing with global illumination is now supported on both PS5 consoles, as is 3D audio. Last but not least, you can experience Indy on the PS5 Pro in a native 4K. On the Xbox series X it was still 1800p with dynamic adaptation. In short: it looks great and also plays like this.