The title was designed, written, and directed by Hal Barwood who considered the Indiana Jones franchise a perfect fit for the action-adventure genre.
In a race for a mythological Babylonian power source, he joins forces with the Central Intelligence Agency and collects four pieces of the Infernal Machine, an ancient device that allegedly opens a portal to another dimension. The story is set in 1947, nine years after the events of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and puts the eponymous protagonist, the adventurer Indiana Jones, against the Soviet Union. The first 3D installment in the series, its gameplay focuses on solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and completing various platforming sections.
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is an action-adventure video game by LucasArts released in 1999.
