Monday, February 18, 2008

LEGO Indiana Jones preview


Next-gen.biz have slapped up a nice preview of the highly anticipated Indiana Jones-themed followup to the LEGO Star Wars games from Traveller's Tales this afternoon, offering insight into the title's production and design challenges:
We’ve got some leeway we might not have had, in that the Lego company appreciates that we’re going to do things in a videogame with their properties, their toys, that they couldn’t have imagined happening in any other context,” says Smith. “Particularly distorting the figures, for example, to make them come to life. That could have been really frowned upon but we were lucky in that, right from the start, they knew we were doing something different. And they were carried off by Jeremy [Pardon, the game’s animator] and James with such style that, bang, it was right there from the start.

Check it out below, at Next-Gen:

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