The Dark Knight is back, and he’s teaming up with Super Heroes from DC Comics to save the Earth. Play LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham on SHIELD today! LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is available in the GeForce NOW store for sale at $7.50 through Sunday, which is 75% off of the normal MSRP of $29.99. This price includes unlimited streaming on SHIELD and a digital download code for Steam that can be used to install a local copy of the game. The game is rated E10+ by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and is recommended for all players over the age of ten. The evil Brainiac enjoys using the power of the Lantern Rings to shrink entire worlds to add to his twisted collection of miniature cities from across the universe - and he’s got his sights set on Earth! Batman, along with a team of Super Heroes and Super Villains from the DC universe, must travel into outer space to thwart Brainiac’s plans and save the planet. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham serves up one of the most generous stables of unlockable characters you will find in the LEGO series.
You can unlock and play as more than 150 characters from the DC universe - each with their own unique powers and abilities - including members of the Justice League and Big LEGO Figures like Cyborg, Solomon Grundy, and more! Stopping Brainiac will entail exploring an entirely new LEGO storyline set, for the first time, in outer space where you’ll need to solve environment-based puzzles and fight Brainiac and his minions. You’ll also get to visit iconic locales such as the Hall of Justice, the Batcave and the Justice League Watchtower to access shops, trophy rooms, and to customize your LEGO heroes and vehicles. Your quest to defeat Brainiac will encompass 45 missions that focus on fast-paced brick-building - and destroying - fun. Why not tap into GeForce NOW’s multi-controller support to bring a friend or family member along for your adventure? Plus, be sure to check out the first two Batman-themed LEGO games, which are also available on GeForce NOW: LEGO Batman The Videogame and LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
To play, navigate to the GeForce NOW menu within SHIELD Hub on your SHIELD Android TV, portable or tablet. You’ll find LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham in the Buy & Play Instantly category. GeForce NOW is the world’s first cloud-gaming service capable of streaming PC games at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. Members enjoy access to a library of 70-plus games they can play on-demand, plus the option to purchase new games and play them instantly. Membership is free for the first three months, then just $7.99 per month. If you don’t already own one, pick up an NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV today. Risen 3: Titan Lords - Play It on SHIELD with GeForce NOW Hard Reset: Redux - Play It on SHIELD with GeForce NOW Welcome to NGN: The NVIDIA Gaming Network! NVIDIA SHIELD: The Perfect Streaming Accessory for Your New 1080Ti Plex Now Supports Photo-Tagging on SHIELDHaptic Feedback Comes to SHIELD! This Week On SHIELD - February 23, 2017Starting the day the game comes out, there will be not one, not two, but three different DLC packs to buy and download to expand your LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham experience.
Unlike previous DLC packs that only included new characters, though, this one will have characters (over 40 in total) and unique missions. Players can of course purchase just the DLC they want at $2.99 a pack, but if they want to pre-purchase the three packs available at launch on November 11, 2014, and the three packs that will come “at a later date,” they can get one for free with the $14.99 Season Pass if you’re playing on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The packs available on November 11 include two movie-themed groups of characters and missions, and one celebrating a specific character (hint: his name is in the title of the game)’s anniversary. The Dark Knight Pack features the chase scene from the titular movie, with players taking control of the Dark Knight costumed Batman and Commissioner Gordon in the mission. You’ll also get Joker, his goons, Bane, and Catwoman (the latter two from the third film, of course) as playable characters with this DLC.
The Man of Steel Pack puts you in control of Jor-El and Lara, as well as the robot Kelex as Krypton collapses around you. Your fight is against Zod and his forces while trying to send Kal-El towards “the safety of Earth.” Finally, the Batman 75th Pack includes Joker and Harley Quinn as they “set up a variety of celebration set pieces.” You’ll get several Batman costumes from throughout the years, including the original Detective Comics #27 first appearance Batman costume. No news on the additional three DLC packs, other than that they’ll include more playable characters, vehicles, and levels. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham hits all the above platforms, plus PS Vita, Wii U, 3DS (but no season pass available for those platforms) on November 11, 2014.Like the first two games in the series, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham begins with the terrestrial adventures of Batman and Robin. It's a slow start, but then comes a moment when it all comes together and the game kicks into high gear.
It's not an easy moment to pinpoint, but after much soul-searching and replaying the first few levels of the game when I should have been continuing story mode, I think I've narrowed it down to one perfect moment. The LEGO Batman series thrives on music from past incarnations of its heroes, from the Superman theme from the Richard Donner movie to Danny Elfman's score for the original Batman films, which is honestly starting to get a little old after three game's worth of it. But this — this will never get old. That right there is Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel's theme song from the 1975 live-action Wonder Woman television show, starring Lynda Carter as young boy's confusion. At least that's the role I remember her playing from watching the show in syndication as a lad. The first time I made Wonder Woman fly in LEGO Batman 3 was definitely the turning point for me. The game instantly transformed from formulaic LEGO adventure to nostalgic romp. This was definitely that moment.
maybe it was this. A rocket ride to the besieged Watchtower, orbital base of the Justice League, suddenly transformers into a circular side-scrolling shoot 'em up starring Batman. Here is a LEGO Batman game that's not afraid to push the limits of whatIt's this sort of daring variety I was expecting in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, a game that didn't live up to its promise as well as it could have. It also backs up my theory that the best Batman video games are already proven games that just happen to have Batman in them now.Greatest Batman game ever. This was that moment. As soon as this multi-wave space shooter kicked in, I knew this was going to be a great game. Although, there was that other moment... nah, most of you wouldn't get it. One of my biggest worries about LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is that it would learn nothing from The LEGO Movie Video Game, my favorite LEGO game release so far. I was afraid this latest LEGO adventure would ignore advances made in the movie tie-in entirely.
Turns out that was a silly fear. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham takes the Master Builder mechanic from the movie game and uses it as a way to represent characters with super speed — Flash, Superman, Not Slow Man and the like. Standing one of these characters on a special platform, the player selects a trio of scenery bits and then sits back as they're transformed into something cool at ludicrous speed. As I watched the Flash whip up a massive water cannon out of things the game just had lying around I was overjoyed. That was the moment I realized this game was more than just an extension of the LEGO Batman franchise, but rather the LEGO video game franchise as a whole. It was the best moment in the game so far. Well, there was that other one. LEGO Batman 2 took forever to introduce its full cast of DC Comics characters, and it felt like as soon as the gang was all accounted for, the game ended. The game kicks off with a Batman and Robin adventure, but soon we're wandering all over the world with some of DC's finest.
Here we have the holy trinity of DC Super Heroes — Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman — together at last in a tiny LEGO version of Paris. Superman is larger-than-life (literally, in this case). Wonder Woman is obviously annoyed that Batman's along for the ride. And the caped crusader himself? Not only is this a significant moment in LEGO Batman casting, it's also a showcase for a very clever use of LEGO micro-builds. Superman villain Braniac has harnessed the power of the various colored Lanterns (Green, Red, Yellow, Tartan, Clear) to enhance the power of his shrink ray. Instead of his normal practice of collecting miniaturized cities, he's upgrading to whole planets, and Earth is first on his cosmic geek checklist. Micro-builds utilize smaller LEGO pieces as an economic way to recreate scenes and objects that would be far too massive at standard minifigure scale. Despite the downsizing, the right builder can really bring out subtle architectural features with a micro-build.