Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 
The Dig Overall Comparison Yet another adventure game comparison.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is unique cause you almost feel like you get 3 games for one, and it seriously adds to it's replay value.
The game acts like a selection of sandwiches. The bread is the same in the beginning and end, but in the middle you get three different flavors of meat, whether it be puzzle, action, or the easy route (where you have a partner with you), all complete with some fairly decent voice acting.
You can start the game and go the puzzle route, beat the game, then replay and go the action route and encounter an entirely new batch of puzzles to solve.
The Dig is another fantastic adventure game with beautiful visuals. You're a small group of astronauts who fly into space to detonate explosives on an asteroid to force it to orbit Earth, as opposed to having it crash INTO Earth. It is eventually discovered through some meddlign that the asteroid is an alien ship that transports the group to an alien planet.
At this point the puzzles are interesting because you have to think abstractly, cause you're never quite sure how something works until you mess with it a bit. There's great voice acting, interesting conversations, and a nice simple one-click interface. The game is a bit more mature than other similar adventure games. One scene in particular has you sawing off a teammates hand with an animal bone.
Indy wins due to it's shear replayability, but The Dig is nothing to scoff at either.
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The Dig was a game that my friend had back when I was in elementary school. It was always sitting on his desk, but I never saw him play it. I just know the box art.
Just the sheer thought of discovering an entire new civilization (or remains thereof) and having everything be completely alien to you, leaving you to figure out what these things are and what they do, it was just a great idea.
One thing I should've mentioned is there's a big plot element of immortality. There's these crystals that you find that can revive people from the dead. However it turns them into addicts obsessed with immortality. When you meet the creator of the crystals (and many of the other technologies on the planet), he admits that he wishes he never made them. When I played and finished the game, it really made me want to take a look at humanity as a whole.
Sorry, I just get excited talking about this game. I really wish there was a way to introduce these games to modern audiences.