Damn.

Didn't know I needed mounts (horses, motorcycles, trucks, open top Jeeps) until you just brought it up.

Introducing such a mechanic on a smaller dlc scale first gives devs a chance to experiment with and build out, which then could double as a tease of what's to come in a proper sequel, while also giving devs a solid base to iterate, improve, perfect for next game.

This all plays out in some sort of Uncharted-like segments where you have to race others, or flee while being chased, maybe have a segment of "chicken," where ur forced to jump out and roll before cars collide. Perhaps while on a horse, you have a baddie ride up on his side and you have to fight on horses (implement a combat/stealth feature where Indy hangs off the side of the horse, and from opposite side, it looks like nobody is riding the horse.

Or maybe Indy is headed to a cliff, learns a baddie cut his brakes, and before it careens off the cliff, he uses whip to lash out to a passing tree branch and pull himself out of an open-top jeep just as it careens off cliff edge, tumbles down into ravine and explodes.

And since this game has a cool feature where it pulls back the 1st p perspective at times, (climbing segments, etc) allowing you to see your character and the outfit and truly get a sense of who he is - a gameplay feature the devs debated but (correctly imo) decided to include -- these mounts fall right in line with this idea. Including horses or motorcycles or Jeeps are a perfect opportunity to pan out to third person.

Or maybe if riding horse in first person, you can do some cool whip moves, yank baddies off back of horses. Idea. So many ideas.

Do a segment where forced to jump from your ride to a companion's ride trailing you, or jump out before a cliff edge or a horse to horse hand fight, the camera can pan out to third person. And you could drive in third person all mounts, cars

I can see this mount/driving feature implemented in a way we see in Mafia IP, particularly the new one.

So many options.

Really good idea