Recommended friends are based on your interests. Make sure they are up to date. LEGO Dimensions PS4 Game Review - Reviewed by Kidzworld on ( Rating: ) LEGO Dimensions brings your creations to life! Check out Kidzworlds PlayStation 4 game review to see how well worlds mix and match! In a video featured on Kinda Funny Game's YouTube channel, Greg Miller was discussing how impressed he was with the attention to detail in LEGO Dimensions with a developer from the game. The developer's response: "Yeah, it's almost like we care." That care shines through every inch of LEGO Dimensions. LEGO Dimensions combines anything you like with LEGO. Do you like Batman? Are you a Lord of The Rings fan? Good news for you! How about The LEGO Movie? Oh, there's plenty of it. From Our World To Each Of Their Worlds LEGO Dimensions is a toys-to-life game similar to Disney Infinity or Skylanders, you'll assemble your LEGO characters and vehicles and pop them onto your LEGO portal, which you'll also build.
When you put a character on the LEGO portal - the base game comes with Batman, Gandalf the Grey, and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie- they appear in the game as one of your playable characters. There's a story tying each of these characters together and it's probably one of my favorite stories of any LEGO game. Our evil villain, Lord Vortech, is stealing elements and heroes from every different world. Robin, Frodo, and Metalbeard are all taken from their respective worlds and each of our heroes unties to get him back. To fight Lord Vortech, our protagonists needs to get the magical keystones and foundation elements which are hidden throughout the different worlds. And there are a lot of different worlds and each one is lovingly created. Take a quick look through the list of available worlds in the base game. Back to the Future The Lord of the Rings The Wizard of OzAnd each of them feature voice actors from their unique worlds. Elizabeth Banks reprises her role The Lego Movie as Wyldstyle, GLADOS's classic voice returns to Portal's world, even the voices of the original Ghostbusters has something to say.
While 9 out of 10 original voice actors returns, you'll notice whenever they're missing that one guy - I'm looking at you Gandalf. A New Meaning To Playing With LEGO In true LEGO fashion you'll need to switch characters to solve different puzzles. Wyldstyle's acrobatics will help you reach new heights, Gandalf's magic helps illuminate and levitate obstacles, and Batman's utility belt will have a solution for most other problems you'll see in the main game. These are the same obstacles you've seen in past LEGO games but the portal offers a new mechanic. I haven't built with LEGO since I was a little kid and LEGO Dimensions really took me back. While you won't do it much after the opening of the game it's fun to actually build with the LEGO that come with the game. Taking 30 minutes to build the LEGO portal was a fun break in the action and though you're building it once you'll be using it through the entire game. Puzzles involving your portal are used constantly. You'll need to move characters, swap spots on the Toy Pad, and add vehicles in every world.
There were moments when I was definitely annoyed with how often they would fall off and I would have to keep switching the players an obnoxious amount in the later levels. Occasionally I would also put a character slightly incorrectly off the pad and it wouldn't read it correctly, and there was one moment when the game wouldn't open the next path needing a reset - these moments slowed things down, but they were rare and didn't take away from my fun. LEGO Dimensions is the best LEGO game I've played in a long, long time. There isn't a single better game out there for families or young kids. There's care given to every second you play, from the music to the easter eggs. Kids love the LEGO and parents love playing in properties they grew up loving like The Simpsons or Back To The Future. If you're looking for a game to bridge the gap between parent and child, there's no better option. Awesome Attention To Detail Annoying Switching At Times A Couple of Bugs LEGO Dimensions Game Rating:
Available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Wii U Have you played LEGO Dimensions? Will you be picking up any of the add-on packs? Share your comments below! Kom ook naar onze LEGO winkels! Minimaal 500m2 met de volledige collectie LEGO! Je vindt de LEGO winkels naast onze onderstaande filialen; • Utrecht The Wall Summary: (10 characters minimum)0 The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited.Click here to review our site terms of use. What's new in version 2.1 Fixed many issues to bring you an even better game experience. Compatible with iPhone 4. LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online 1.4 LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online 1.3 LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online 1.2 LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online 1.1 LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online 1.0 Add to my listThe new rival to Skylanders and Disney Infinity uses real Lego bricks to create Lego versions of everything from Portal to Scooby-Doo. You probably couldn’t get two more different developers than Valve and Traveller’s Tales if you tried.
Despite creating all-time classics such as Half-Life and Portal, Valve seem to have all but given up making video games. Traveller’s Tales have the opposite problem though, and just can’t stop pumping out multiple new Lego games every year. So there’s a sweet kind of irony that a team-up between the two is apparently the only way to get a new Portal game. There is of course more to Warner’s toys-to-life game than just Portal, but they’re sensible enough to realise that having Chell, GlaDOS, and Wheatley in Lego Dimensions is the best way to try and deflect accusations that this is just another Lego game and just another attempt to fleece money from unwary parent’s wallets. Accusations that are entirely justified, and yet still we can’t bring ourselves to dislike it. The premise of Lego Dimensions has been clear for a while: like Disney Infinity it replicates various disparate properties with their own mini-games, but it also allows for characters from different universes to mingle together.
This includes a dizzying array of unconnected movies and TV shows, such as (deep breath): Back to the Future, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Portal, Jurassic World, Scooby-Doo, DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, Ghostbusters, and Lego properties such as Ninjago and Chima. Star Wars and Marvel are not included though, despite both having existing Lego games, because they’re owned by Disney and this game is in direct competition with Disney Infinity. But while Disney were initially rather timid about mixing and matching from different films Lego has it front and centre as the key feature, to the point where the three figures included in the starter pack are Batman, Gandalf the Grey, and Wyldstyle (from the Lego Movie). Also included with the starter pack (which is currently pre-ordering for around £100) is the ‘toy pad’ onto which you must place the figures in order for them to be recognised by the game. One of the key points that Warner was trying to get across at E3 is that the pad can hold up to seven toys at once.
This can include vehicles, with the Batmobile being included in the starter pack, and since this is Lego you have to actually build them before you can use them. Since it’s only the little dais they sit on that’s recognised by the game you can technically have whatever you like on the toy pad. Although you can rebuild any of the vehicles in one of three forms, to increase the illusion that the game knows what you’re doing. But moving toys around on the pad is also used as part of the gameplay, unlike other toys-to-life games where it’s a purely functional part of the experience. The first part of the E3 demo seems to be the first level, and is set along the Wizard of Oz’s Yellow Brick Road. Here it becomes obvious that the tried and tested Lego gameplay is still the backbone of the game, with the same sort of simple puzzles and one-button combat. The jokes are still intact too, with several lines that made us chuckle, such as the Tinman asking Batman what he’s missing and him answering, ‘A sense of humour’.
At one point further passage becomes impossible until you rebuild the Batmobile as a ‘Bat Blaster’, but it’s all heavily telegraphed and we’re not sure we’d really count it as a puzzle. When you get to the boss fight with the Wicked Witch of the West moving the toys around on the pad also comes into play, with the witch stunning various characters and the only way to wake them up being to move them to a different position on the pad. A subsequent Scooby-Doo level uses similar ideas purely for puzzle purposes, with the pad able to light up in different colours – which results in some relatively complex colour switching and matching with the characters. The Scooby-Doo level is great, by the way, and unlike the rest of the game it’s cel-shaded, so as to look as much like the ’70s cartoon as possible – right down to the sampled voiceovers (that or they’re amazingly good soundalikes). It’s the Portal level that offers the greatest deviation from the Lego norm, although not necessarily in the way you’d expect.
Although Chell herself is armed with a portal gun she’s not one of the starter characters, and so they have to play through GLaDOS’s puzzles using collectable ‘keystones’. These enable various abilities, many familiar from previous Lego games, such as shrinking or growing characters or levitating a Companion Cube through a series of tubes. The toy pad is also used for a number of the puzzles, including changing the colour of the characters by placing their toys on specific spots. The pad can also be used as a sort of compass to find hidden objects, with a flash of red indicating you’re going the wrong way and green that an item is near. Although it’s implied that everything we see is available with the starter pack, you certainly can’t play as anyone else without buying their character’s toy. So, for example, the cameo of Homer Simpson appearing through a portal is purely non-playable. Chell herself is only available as part of a level pack – the most expensive kind of add-on, which although it comes with three toys and its own new set of story levels costs around £30 on its own.