After successfully keeping the Holy Grail out of Nazi hands, Indiana Jones returned in 1992 with a brand new adventure. And unlike 1989's The Last Crusade, Fate of Atlantis is not based on any of the films, but instead presents us with an entirely original story!

With two playable characters (sometimes), three possible paths, randomised and optional puzzles (a few), a lush iMuse-powered soundtrack and full "talkie" voice acting, this is definitely LucasArts' most ambitious point & click adventure to date. But is it fun? Let's find out!

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are DGC veteran and adventure game fan Esko ("FireFyte"), as well as newcomer Dreamkid, for whom Fate of Atlantis was one of their earlier PC games and made a big last impression.

We also got a voice message from Watchful and last but not least the episode was expertly edited by Console. Thanks all for your effort, we can't do this without you.

Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (144 mins, 165 MB)

RELEVANT LINKS:

* There was quite some activity on the Fate of Atlantis forums for this month, and there are many great threads with scanned in magazine reviews, unofficial special editions, and much more.

* FiniteArts.com is FoA director Hal Barwood's personal website, where you can find some of his earliest games as well as many other things.

* Noah Falstein's blog which he kept until 2017 contains some interesting insights from the mind of FoA's co-designer.

* Daniel Abu has been doing great work interviewing game industry legends on YouTube, including Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein.

* Indy Guide is a walkthrough for both Indiana Jones adventure games and has been online since the year 2000.

* DREAMM emulator for LucasArts games by Aaron Giles

* More Lucas adventure gaming in DGC episodes 22 (The Secret of Monkey Island) and 54 (Day of the Tentacle), as well as episode 53 in which we interviewed David Fox.