The boss of Lucasfilm Games has mentioned it could be “tremendous fascinating” to “inform increasingly more Indiana Jones tales”.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was launched on Monday for Xbox Series X/S and PC and has been properly acquired by critics, amassing 87 scores for each platforms on assessment aggregation web site Metacritic.
The single-player, first-person sport is ready in 1937, between the occasions of the Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade movies.
It sees gamers embark on a globetrotting journey to cease sinister forces from uncovering and harnessing an historic energy linked to the Great Circle.
Developer MachineGames is at the moment engaged on story DLC for the sport referred to as The Order of the Giants, which might be launched in 2025, in addition to the PS5 model of the Great Circle, which is coming subsequent spring.
In an interview with Variety, Lucasfilm Games vice chairman and common supervisor Douglas Reilly instructed there might be franchise potential within the partnership with MachineGames if the Great Circle is profitable.
“Right now, we’re targeted on getting this one to the general public and attending to the DLC and making this as profitable as we are able to,” Reilly mentioned. “I believe we’re all the time on the lookout for nice tales. And the excellent news is, there’s a whole lot of house in between the movies the place we may inform increasingly more Indiana Jones tales that I believe could be tremendous fascinating.”
Reilly additionally touched on whether or not the Great Circle is taken into account canon to the broader Indiana Jones cinematic universe.
“So canon is such an advanced idea. It is an genuine story set between the 2 motion pictures of Raiders and The Last Crusade,” he mentioned. “We work carefully with the studio and franchise administration. So sure, it’s meant to be an genuine Indiana Jones expertise, in that sense.”
