Bethesda's Indiana Jones game will mix first-person and third-person gameplay

Baker said that he does not have more specific details on how exactly the feature will be implemented. Many have assumed that perspective switching will be either scripted during certain story elements or when engaging in certain gameplay activities.

Users on the GamingLeaksAndRumous subreddit have made some suggestions about how this feature might work. One game frequently brought up by users is The Chronicles of Riddick where players use the third-person perspective for platforming and traversal while using first-person point-of-view for exploration and combat.

Most modern first-person shooters also implement a switch to third-person during certain activities such as using vehicles. Native third-person shooters like The Division switch to first-person when using scoped rifles or when using mounted guns.

Having a mixed camera perspective is something that would make sense for Indiana Jones. The game's executive producer Todd Howard said last year that the game will do a lot of things differently.

"I will just say it's a mash-up," Howard shared in a previous interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. "It's unique. It isn't one thing, intentionally, so it does a lot of different things that myself and the folks at Machine Games have wanted to do in a game. So it's a unique thing."

Howard has been wanting an Indiana Jones game since 2009. The game producer pitched the idea to Bethesda back then but the studio could not commit to its development. Howard tried again almost a decade later and finally got MachineGames to develop the title.

There is no release date for Indiana Jones and the game is believed to be in early development. However, given that Microsoft wants Indiana Jones to be a rival to Insomniac's Spider-Man games, we may see the title come sooner rather than later.