United Kingdom, July 11 -- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle being in first-person "was a given" from the beginning, MachineGames' design director Jens Andersson has said.

The developer explained that adopting a first-person perspective was essential for delivering an authentic Indiana Jones experience for the action-adventure game, as doing so would immerse players directly into the role of the iconic archaeologist.

He told GamesRadar+: "If you're going to be Indiana Jones, you need to look through his eyes. You need to feel like him."

He added: "How would we make you as a first-person player feel like Indiana Jones? We knew that would be really hard, but actually it was one of the things that we felt we hit.

"It took years, of cour...