We didn’t expect Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s full PS5 reveal to be quite so big budget. But credit to Bethesda and Xbox: it knew exactly what it was doing with this.
The trailer, for those of you who haven’t seen it, features Harrison Ford stand-in Troy Baker and Uncharted actor Nolan North. Throughout the full video, the pair make telling nods to Nate Drake’s motives compared to Indiana Jones.
It’s a brilliantly executed clip which understands its audience extremely well.
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While it’s been almost a decade since the last major Uncharted game, the Naughty Dog franchise very much remains part of the fabric of PlayStation. And while The Great Circle may be a first-person adventure game as opposed to a third-person shooter, it thematically hits the same beats as Uncharted.