Dview: LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Xbox 360)

The Bottom Line:
LEGO Indiana Jones is a simple and abbreviated retelling of the first three Indiana Jones movies (The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is in the sequel game).  This is broken up movie then further by chapter.  LEGO games tend to be somewhat more family friendly fare having an E10 rating for violence against humanoid LEGOs.  If you've played the LEGO Star Wars or Batman games, you pretty much know what to expect.  i guess this would loosely be called an action/adventure game.  This particular game would fit into the category of somewhat easy 1,000 gamerscore.  Furthermore, this game has been out for a while so you might be able to find a cheap copy.
Grade: C 

What to Expect:
* A very basic retelling of the Indiana Jones saga from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and The Final Crusade
* Things to find: artifacts, parcels (which allow you to unlock "cheats") and the ever present lego studs (kind of like a currency.  LEGO studs can be used to unlock characters (when you finished the level they were on) and cheats. 
* Lots of building and destroying LEGO shapes
* Some levels have vehicle segments
* Two play modes (sort of): Story mode is playing through the story (finishing a stage unlocks...) Free play mode - this mode allows you to track down the artifacts, etc that you cannot get in story mode.  This is basically the mode you will use to complete most of the achievements and find most of the artifacts.  After you purchase or unlock certain characters (by beating levels) you can go back in free play mode and play with characters with abilities you will not have in story mode
* Abilities are: females jump higher, scholars can unlock certain areas, Willie can break glass with her voice, some people have explosives (like bombs or bazookas), short characters allow you to access area with the short door, military characters allow you to access doors, Indy can whip across platforms, etc.
* Some annoying jump puzzles (mostly to get artifacts)
* There is an option for two player on the couch co-op.
* You might want to use an online walk through for some of the hidden items, but you probably don't need to. 
* Combat: kind of simplified - you attack with the X button, but can sometimes use objects (like Indy's) whip with the B button.
* Three "secret" levels to unlock. 
* A fixed camera view (somewhat like 2.5D) that sometimes makes it a little hard to tell exactly where you need to jump/go (maybe it is just a problem i have with depth perception) and how exactly to line up movements. 

Achievements:
As i said, this is one of the easier games to get all of the achievements.  Some of the harder things to do in the game are collect parts of artifacts (a certain level in Temple of Doom comes to mind, along with a really annoying jump puzzle in a different level).  The game save seems to keep track of the time you saved, not the number of hours - so i am not sure how many hours it takes.  (but i beat it in the last 5 days or so).  As for achievement types there are: collection ones, don't die on a level, ability usage ones, ones for completing each chapter (and bonus level).