UPDATE: Rumors are that MTV was mistaken, we will see... 

At a Lucasarts event last Saturday the developers of the upcoming Lego Indiana Jones came out with some information on their new title. MTV’s gaming blog, which still maintains to have more relevance and breaking news then the rest of its attached companies combined, has revealed some interesting news. The full list is below, but the most impressive and unpredicted bit is that the console versions of the game will allow for four players to progress co-operatively throughout the single player campaign. If Lego Star Wars was any indication of how the developers plan on creating the drop in/drop out interface for multiplayer it looks like Lego Indiana Jones may be a power hitter in 2008.

Other big information comes from the rumors of developers removing Nazis from the plot of the movies and replacing them with a more politically correct enemy for children to blow into little pieces. This has been rebuked officially. Apparently the enemies will indeed still retain their Nazi roots, just without the swastikas on their uniforms. While I know some people are pulling at their chains screaming about keeping it as it is, I remind them that this is a freaking Lego game.

Chill out. Seriously.

Information about how the Wii and DS versions will control and some small story details are below. The game is due out this June for, well, just about everything.

 

• I learned that even though the game’s puzzles will never be designed for more than two characters that, on the console versions, up to four players will be able to run through levels together.
• I was told that the Wii game will have motion-triggered bull-whipping. When I asked if it would function the same as the lightsaber-swinging did in the Wii version of “LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga or if it would offer 1:1 remote-to-whip synchronized control, the producers said to expect something akin to the “Star Wars” interface.
• The console versions of the “Indy” game are being made by the same team at Traveller’s Tales that did the “Star Wars” games; it’s a different team that’s doing “LEGO Batman.”
• I was told not to worry about reports that the Nazis have been removed form the LEGO version of the trilogy. The plot will stay intact; the bad guys just won’t wear swastikas.
• I was only shown the Xbox 360 version of the game, but PC, PS2, PS3, and Wii versions are al slated for June 3 2008. So are DS and PSP versions. I didn’t learn much about them except that the DS stylus will handle whipping and that the microphone will be used for blowing up rafts (in a “Temple of Doom” scene, I presume) and blowing out torches. Oh, and you’ll be able to control the “Raiders” monkey in the DS game.
• Lastly, they’re saying that the game is only about the original trilogy. So no references to the new movie, even though it comes out a week after it? They’re saying no.

 

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