Iconic Characters Reimagined in Upcoming Video Games: Indiana Jones and Han Solo Back in Action

2024 is closing out with a huge helping of highly anticipated games for the rest of the summer and all the way through to November thus far with more sure to announce release dates around that holiday window.

Conversely, games like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws have finally cemented their 2024 dates and can now be marketed and anticipated properly. Star Wars Outlaws is particularly exciting for Original Trilogy and Galactic Civil War enthusiasts but especially for fans of the smuggler Han Solo.

Related Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is building on many of the franchise’s strengths, and one in particular looks well-realized so far.

To be fair, Harrison Ford’s likeness will hardly be his in-game performance since it’s presumably a static pose the whole time.

Regardless, that’s a huge Easter egg and likeness for Massive Entertainment to feature in Outlaws since it’s a firm demonstration of how intimidating the Hutt Clan should be as seen from the perspective of Kay Vess.

Enough marketing has been shared that MachineGames should reasonably be able to hit the release date for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but until there’s a concrete date scheduled there will always be a hint of ambiguity there and a chance that The Great Circle is nudged into 2025.

Xbox’s lineup for the end of 2024 is stacked with titles and, depending on which ones Microsoft wants to keep in the oven longer, Indiana Jones could be thrust forth to end 2024 with a whip-crack so that Avowed has more time to simmer.

If Indiana Jones lands in 2024, its release will now inevitably be somewhere in the same ballpark as Outlaws, even if the Great Circle follows it by several months.

It’s deeply doubtful that two games with Indiana Jones and an iconic character like Han Solo will ever launch this close to one another again unless Bethesda makes a franchise out of Indiana Jones games while another future Star Wars game happens to feature Han Solo in some capacity.

There would need to be a lot at work in the cosmos for those stars to align, though, and hopefully 2024 will be a year where these likenesses and character portrayals can be celebrated for their rarity and proximity.