Jul
28
LEGO Batman: The Videogame
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Product Description
The Black Knight is back like you’ve never seen him before! From Traveler’s Tales, the creators of the Lego Star Wars games, comes Lego Batman. Pulling inspiration from the gamut of bat history, this action-packed Batman experiences lets you play as Bat man, Robin or more than 12 dastardly villains — all in their super-fun LEGO form!
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Great Game, Great storylines & characters, I dont usually go in for Lego games but this one has certainly changed my mind.
Rating: 5 / 5
Good fun game – originally borrowed for a while off a friend but so fun I jusy had to buy it to finish off the game.
Lots of little puzzles and bricks to smash and bits to collect. Hours of fun
Rating: 4 / 5
I origanlly bought lego batman for my two little brothers and within a day found myself fighting them for a shot along with my dad. Its brilliant because my little brothers can work as a team (mostly) so it stops the “whens my shot?” argument. But it’s also an addictive little game which will keep you occupied for ages, with all the different thoughrly thought out levels and choice between the side of good or evil.
In all I would definitly recommend this game to everyone!
Rating: 5 / 5
Lego’s recent brand-tied games, including Star Wars and Indiana Jones, have been something of a god send to young adults like myself who grew up playing with these bricks, only being able to dream of a time when we could buy sets dedicated to some of our favourite heroes. Sadly, Lego didn’t make answer my dreams in the 1990’s, leaving it till a couple of years ago to design and release some wonderful new themes, including those that have made it in to the games. Of course, by then, I was mature enough (or not so mature enough) to go out and court young females in nightclubs, rather than indulging myself with plastic bricks and little people.
But who said there was anything wrong with doing so on a video-games console? I would even refer to labelling it as a guilty pleasure – games like ‘Lego Batman’ have proved popular with all the family, and this latest release is no exception. It ticks all the boxes for immersive and fun experience, whilst being innocent enough to leave out the blood, gore, violence and America saving the world that so many video games and films these days have.
If you’re lucky enough, you may even want to purchase ‘Avatar’ on both DVD and PS3 formats, so America can save the world in to different ways. If thats your sort of thing…
Lego Batman unsurprisingly has much in common with its predecessors, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, to which there are of course positive and negative angles. On the upside, the familiar game-play and control system will mean that those who have played or own the previous releases will settle into Lego Batman without a hitch. Thankfully, this means that few buttons on the controller are actually activated to doing anything, so its very easy to learn how to control your characters.
But from experiences of the previous two games, there are still improvements that have yet to be implemented. Controlling vehicles is still a little cranky at times – particularly in tight spaces and desperate situations. The ‘Life/Health’ system is also still perplexing to say at the least, perhaps catering for the casual gamer that doesn’t mind killing their little Lego man on several occasions. An argument, however, is that Lego may have implemented such a simple Health system simply to take away any negative connotations from the game-play, which I think is all to the good.
The only other problem you have is navigating areas that rely heavily on dark settings, as without adequate lighting/torches, you can find yourself running into walls and cramped spaces without realising you’re going no-where. This is perhaps unforgivable in the ‘Bat cave’ (your central hub) where it is unnecessarily difficult to travel to different areas without falling off railings and giving Batman a rather harsh death! I have no hesitation in saying that Indiana’s school/college was far nicer to navigate than the Bat-cave in this Legoland.
Niggles aside, the pro’s outweigh them strongly, but purely on the basis of this being a game centred around Lego. Being able to navigate different streets, buildings and situations whilst performing Bat-kicks on objects (making them break up into little ‘Lego’ pieces) is oddly satisfying. The idea of making objects from a pile of bricks to help you progress further in a level is another way terrific way of using these small plastic objects to comical effect – often producing some very imaginative and ‘dastardly clever’ contraptions.
For those that will see the game as a lasting effort, then you need not worry as Lego Batman continues the tradition of using Percentage as a gauge for progress. I find this much more engaging in the respect that I won’t be satisfied until I can complete every nook and cranny of the game, whilst on my way, being able to exchange Studs for Extras (reward items).
Graphically, Lego Batman doesn’t attempt to leap forward in anyway from any of the other games, or indeed, consoles (I imagine the developers use the same kit for all platforms), and as such, everything looks fairly standard not just to its previous entities, but for current gaming in general. As I will always point out when comparing PS3 and Xbox 360 games however,the 360 version has much better Anti-Aliasing. In English, that means that there are less jagged edges around the graphics in the game. Though I doubt this will bother the average person.
No Playstation ‘Trophies’ this time round I’m afraid! Alas, I was rather hoping I could earn some sort of Playstation Home object for all my hard-work. We can only hope… *cough-cough* Lego…
In short, this is a wonderfully fun game that is perhaps much more satisfying than Indiana Jones, given that the challenges are a bit more obvious, and the A.I has gained a few more brain-cell along the way to Gotham City. While it still has it’s flaws, this an excellent price for such an immersive game that can be played from both the Hero/Villain perspective, and with a helping hand from someone thanks to the two-player option.
Rating: 4 / 5
My Granson is only 4 and he play this game with his dad.
only for 1 hour a day.
He has a lot of fun with this game as it is lego.
Rating: 5 / 5