The only time the two sets of characters really intermix is in the traditional Free Play levels where you can morph into different characters at will.Įven the most ardent Lego fans will be happy to admit the games have some blindingly obvious faults. Oddly Batman never turns up in the villain levels, despite them providing excellent end-of-level bosses for him. The characters all have widely varying abilities, from super-strength and mind control to Mr Freeze's freeze gun. It does the job well, but the fun of constantly changing characters is primarily achieved via a separate set of three chapters as the villains.Īlthough they follow the same story as the hero chapters the villain levels are almost entirely different. This confers various extras such as magnetic boots, a glass-shattering sonic weapon and heat resistance. In the Story mode you only ever play as Batman and Robin, but variety is maintained via a series of interchangeable suits. You can now grab and throw bad guys but the best new trick is using batarangs - a hugely satisfying attack which involves moving a cursor around and locking onto multiple targets.
You start off controlling the dynamic duo in what is essentially the same old fixed-perspective action platformer. (Oddly the two Chris Nolan films are barely hinted at.)Īs usual the game is split into three separate chapters, each featuring a different supergroup of villains. Creating a game around Batman, though, is a slightly different proposition as this is based on no specific film or even medium, with the music from Tim Burton's films, lots of visual steals from the '90s cartoon and the glorious silliness of the '60s TV show. In fact they're so good that they immediately shame every other kids' title ever made and prove that games aimed primarily at children should be the most inclusive, not the least. The Star Wars and Indiana Jones games show such an endearingly obvious love for both the movies and Lego itself that it's almost impossible not to enjoy them. A game of a toy of a film may sound like a one way express elevator to marketing hell but somehow, against the odds (including the fact that usually developer Traveller's Tales aren't that good) they're exactly the opposite.
If you've not played one before, and don't know the catch, then this review is going to be a bit like watching Titanic on the assumption it has a happy ending.īut first the good news: Lego games are, generally speaking, the best things in the universe. Anyone who's ever played a Lego game before will realise the full awful consequence of this information and what it's going to mean for this latest portable outing. If you'll notice - there's a big fat '1' sitting up there in the number of players field.
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