Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb, the 2003 prequel to Temple of Doom, gains Xbox’s PC backwards-compatibility lineup on 12 November. Anyone who already owns the game on an Xbox console gets the PC version at no extra cost, and every game in the batch supports mouse and keyboard.
According to PureXBOX, Emperor’s Tomb is one of 21 original Xbox games that joined the lineup as part of Xbox’s 25th anniversary. They join the four made available earlier this year, bringing the total to 25.
What the game is
Developed by The Collective and published by LucasArts, the game is an adventure set in 1935. ScreenRant says Indy hunts for the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl buried with Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, while the Nazis race him to it.
The trail runs through the jungles of Ceylon, a Prague castle, Istanbul, Hong Kong, the fictional island of Peng Lai, and the tomb itself. Wu Han appears, and the ending sets up the Lao Che and Nurhachi’s remains job that opens Temple of Doom in Shanghai.
On Xbox the game holds a Metascore of 73, praised for capturing the atmosphere of the films but held back by technical issues. It has been available on PC for years already.
The rest of the batch
The Star Wars games make up the biggest group: Battlefront and Battlefront II, Revenge of the Sith, Jedi Academy, and Jedi Outcast. Jedi Starfighter, Knights of the Old Republic I and II, Republic Commando, Starfighter Special Edition, and The Clone Wars complete it.
The batch also includes The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Grabbed by the Ghoulies, both on Xbox Game Pass. The rest are Armed and Dangerous, Disney’s Chicken Little, Red Faction II, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Thrillville, TimeSplitters 2, and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect.
Achievements and performance
Xbox also improved performance and stability for the first four games. Four original Xbox titles gained achievements on the same day: both Knights of the Old Republic games, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, and Conker: Live and Reloaded. Emperor’s Tomb isn’t among them.
Microsoft says more original Xbox games will come to PC through backward compatibility, with more achievements to follow later.
