Famous voice actor's excitement ahead of anticipated game launch

Troy Baker has an idea locked and loaded for another Indiana Jones video game. 

"Dude, I have my whole pitch laid out," admits the famous voice actor. 

"Ultimately, that's going to be the responsibility of my betters but look, if this story and this character has shown us anything, we thought we were done with the Last Crusade, but it's a big world and there's a lot of history, there's a lot of mystery and that's what I love."

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Baker won universal praise for his take on the character in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which perfectly mimicked Harrison Ford's iconic archaeologist.  

Two years after it arrived on Xbox, the first-person action adventure game is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 on May 12.

"There is nothing like being able to take a game like this on the go, wherever you are," says Baker, who first played the game on his Steamdeck. 

"I love my PC, I love my platforms and I love this kind of controller but the truth is, being able to be on a plane and play this (is special).

"I never thought, with as advanced as our graphics are, that we would be able to put this thing on such a small platform.

"Suffice to say I'm excited to start my third playthrough of this game."

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After two ordinary movies, Bethesda's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle felt right at home with the original trilogy.

It earned an 86 on Metacritic, which is second only to Raiders of the Lost Ark if we compare scores with Rotten Tomatoes.

So where does Troy Baker rank it?

"I'm slightly biased. What an amazing question," said the undecided actor.

"I would probably go one (Raiders), three (Last Crusade), Great Circle then two (Temple of Doom).

"Or one (Raiders), Great Circle, three (Last Crusade), two (Temple of Doom).

"Or maybe a tie for second.

"I love how we open our game.

"We've got this incredible kind of shot-for-shot remake of the opening of Raiders that leads into where we find ourselves in this story, which is a complete contrast to how Raiders opens.

"In Raiders, it opens up with this bright-eyed, clean-cut professor doing what he does best, which is teaching a class during the daytime.

"Our game opens up as the same professor, now passed out drunk at his desk at night in the storm."

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As for how he so perfectly captured the essence of a young Harrison Ford, Baker says he built an appreciation of the character from "nuggets" within the films. 

"There's a line where he says in Last Crusade, Sean Connery's character says, 'The quest for the Grail is not archeology, it's a race against evil'.

"And Indy says, 'This is an obsession, Dad. I never understood it and neither did Mom.'

"And that line to me became so integral to the spine of this character because we understand that's a lie.

"He is just as obsessed, if not more, and that's why he's always chasing the past, always on the adventure."

As for what that next adventure and what his pitch may be, Baker wasn't giving anything away. 

"I think we made a hell of a game, and I think the best thing that we did was we showed people that you don't just wanna watch Indiana Jones, you wanna be Indiana Jones.

"Maybe we get to do another turn of it and if we did, I would be happy.

"But I can also say that if this is the only one that we do, we can all stand proud knowing that we gave this our absolute all and we made one hell of a game."

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