LEGO City Undercover (Nintendo Wii U, 2013)31 product ratings543302011Good graphicsCompelling gameplayGood valueSee all 14 reviewsAbout this productSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 15 Brand NewSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 23 Pre-OwnedAll listings for this productAbout this productProduct InformationProduct IdentifiersKey FeaturesTech Details1Use the GamePad to set waypoints and find secret areasHop into more than 100 unique cars, motorcycles, and aircraftExplore a vast LEGO city, talk to characters, and track down notorious criminals543302011Good graphicsCompelling gameplayGood valueMost relevant reviewsSee all 14 reviewsby Great for my 9 yr oldThe kids have only been playing it for a day. We already had Lego Jurassic Park, so my kids' expected this to be similar. So far so good. The only difference I see is the load time between "levels?". The Newer Jurassic Park seems to load a bit faster - I'm sure the coding is always evolving for load-time efficiency. Overall the kids are loving it!Condition: Newby Sweet gameMy son loved the game and entertaining to watch great kids gameVerified purchase: Yes |
Condition: Pre-ownedby LegoGreat shape just ad you described would buy agin from this site thanks for your honestlyVerified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-ownedby LEGO RULES WORLDMore Fun and Characters - Best So Far - Keep it Coming HAPPY BIRTH DAY JAKEVerified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-ownedby A LEGO game that's got many places to explore and great for using your timeLEGO City: Undercover is a great game and I, along with my friends, are very satisfied and we are enjoying the game. The game has many jokes and characters. This game is defiantly a great game to get and the city is very large. However, since I've not tried any of the other LEGO games, I've very little comparison with other games. But, from what my friends say, it's one of the largest games of the LEGO game franchise and has some of the most games. Definitely a recommendation for anyone who loves LEGO and likes to go exploring in the city. (Also those who love to steal cars) Even more so to those who love a good challenge in 100% a game (Completing everything).
The LEGO franchise is booming after very successful games such as LEGO Batman & LEGO Lord of the Rings. Now TT Games have teamed up with Nintendo for LEGO City Undercover; a brilliant sandbox-style adventure.Players assume the role of the charismatic hero Chase McCain, a famous LEGO City cop renowned for once capturing Rex Fury, a notorious criminal. Rex has escaped and is thought to be behind a recent crimewave that has plagued the city, so it's up to Chase to save the day. Key to the city: This is the largest LEGO game in the series and it's packed with intricate details As Chase, players are tasked with solving crimes and hunting down various criminals across the city. At his disposition are a variety of disguises that are collected as the story unfolds. Each disguise has its own benefits in solving puzzles and getting around the city. As a cop Chase is able to grapple and swing across gaps and scan clues to hunt for evidence or treasures. Early disguises include a Robber;
with come-in-handy crowbar and Miner; allowing you to wield a pick-axe and use dynamite. Each disguise is unique and equally useful in solving crimes and accessing hidden areas. Similar to other LEGO games you’re rewarded for replaying previous areas once new disguises are unlocked to obtain previously inaccessible rewards. The fact that LEGO City Undercover is a Wii U exclusive may come as a surprise to some, but it’s with the Wii U GamePad that completes the LEGO City experience. As you traverse the crime-washed city in one of over 100 different vehicles, colleagues will pop up on the GamePad with your next mission, update you with goings-on in the city or just for a chat. The Wii U GamePad displays the map of your surroundings and also the route you need to take to reach your destination. The GamePad is also used to scan the surroundings to spot hidden villains and can also highlight hard-to-find, large LEGO bricks. These new additions are the games second currency alongside the usual LEGO studs.
Hilarious: LEGO games are known for being funny but this is by far the most amusing Larger LEGO bricks are often hard to find or obtained via side quests or hidden areas whilst smaller bricks are collected from breaking apart LEGO items and can then be used to purchase vehicles that are key in Chase McCain’s progress in LEGO City. Humour has always been fundamental to the LEGO games and LEGO City Undercover has it in abundance. The game is filled with hilarious cut scenes, funny dialogue and famous voice overs with reference to well-known film characters. In tandem with the storyline this makes the experience of playing the game very enjoyable. LEGO City Undercover is the first LEGO title not to be shackled to a major film or comic franchise. This has allowed TT games to be more creative and it shows. This game feels like a natural progression for the ever-popular franchise and one that players of all ages will enjoy.Lego City Undercover is released on March 28. Follow us on Twitter: @DailyMailGames and on Facebook: Daily Mail Games.
When I first saw LEGO City Undercover, the first thing that came to mind was the music video for the Beastie Boys' Sabotage: fictional cops with over-the-top car chases, disguises, and ridiculous hair. While this $49.99 Nintendo Wii U game doesn't have Mike D, MCA, or Ad-Rock screaming into a microphone and there's no unlockable Cochise skin (the latter of which would have made this my game of the year), LEGO City Undercover is packed full of ridiculous, funky, family-friendly police action and stands as one of the best games on the Wii U so far. The Chase You play Chase McCain, returning to LEGO City after a few years away. The man you put behind bars, Rex Fury, has broken out, and a crime wave is sweeping the streets of this brick-based San Francisco analog. This isn't Grand Theft Auto or Sleeping Dogs, though; criminals are all bank robbers or similarly simple criminals, and firefights are nonexistent. Instead, you've got to overcome your enemies using judo flips, fist-fights, and handcuffs.
View All 5 Photos in Gallery Chase has a wide variety of tools that get unlocked through the game, integrated into the "police communicator" (the menu and map system on the Wii U gamepad's screen) and the disguises Chase can wear. The Wii U gamepad screen serves as a map, but it also lets you scan for criminals and hidden objects by holding it up to the TV and treating it like an augmented reality scanner. It serves as a video communicator for in-games call you receive, and you'll hear the voices of your erstwhile partner Frank and dispatcher Ellie through the gamepad's speakers, too. Chase isn't exactly a gunslinger, and he doesn't get the job done by shooting or even punching enemies (much). Instead, most puzzles are solved by putting on different disguises, giving the game a sense of variety similar to the Super Nintendo classic The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse. As a police officer, Chase can use a grappling hook gun and free run through certain obstacles. Disguised a criminal, Chase can use a crowbar to open doors and crack safes.
The miner disguise lets Chase blow up boulders, the farmer disguise lets Chase water planets and make platforms appear, and the fireman disguise lets Chase break through boarded up doors and put out fires. LEGO City Since this is an open-world, Grand Theft Auto-styled game, driving plays a major part. Thankfully, you can wave down any driver with your police whistle and commandeer your car, and you can unlock a fleet of over 100 vehicles you can access at buildable call-in points scattered through the city. Driving is simple, with the right trigger accelerating and the left trigger breaking and going in reverse. Vehicles have their own health meters, and once they take enough damage they collapse into a pile of bricks. Fortunately, even small cars are resilient, and there are plenty of roads, alleys, and jump ramps to take through the city. The driving control isn't extremely tight, but it's responsive enough to feel fun and simple without worrying about things like drifting. LEGO City isn't huge compared to Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City, and the areas can seem cramped in the beginning until you unlock more places to explore, but it's satisfyingly diverse, with lots of different environments to play in.
The game gives an impression of San Francisco at first, complete with a Lombard Street analog and an Alcatraz-like island prison, but it opens up into areas that look like other parts of other cities and settings, like New York, Miami, and even national park neighborhoods. While you explore LEGO City in a Grand Theft Auto open-world way, the main missions of the game are punctuated by traditional LEGO game levels, where you're placed in linear stages with a nearly fixed camera and have to build your way to the end. These levels allow for more intricate set pieces and involved puzzles than the open world exploration, so the different pace during them is welcome. This is strictly a single-player game, with no online mode or local co-op. You won't miss them any more than you did in the pre-San Andreas Grand Theft Auto games; there's so much to do in the city on your own and the action is so focused with taking you through areas that there isn't much of a place for multiplayer. Lots to Find Since this is also a LEGO game, there are a ton of unlockables to find, build, and buy.
Tokens are scattered all through the city that unlock additional disguises (including analogs of Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, and Horatio Cane... but no Cochise) and vehicles (but the main game mechanic-based disguises are all found in the story missions), and once they're unlocked you can purchase them with "studs" (the in-game currency) in the police headquarters. There are also several Super Builds scattered through the city like vehicle drop-off points, houses, and landmarks you can build by collecting bricks (and searching for hidden gold bricks, which are worth thousands of bricks). The humor really shines through, with full voice acting and excellent animation turning the entire world into a strange cartoon. While some aspects can be as grating as they are funny (like partner Frank Honey's loud screams and Fry-like stupidity), LEGO City Undercover surprised me by bringing out more laughs than I've gotten from a game since Borderlands 2. The amount of computer-generated visual gags reminded me more than a little of the show Reboot, with unoffensive humor packed full of charm.
LEGO City looks great, but in 1080p the differences between the buildings, vehicles, and plants made of Lego and the more realistically modeled dirt and rocks can be jarring. The seams between the LEGO aspects and the realistic backgrounds look strange, but not too much more so than any other LEGO game in the past that combined those elements (and every LEGO game from LEGO Star Wars to LEGO Indiana Jones featured realistic set-pieces and weren't completely made of bricks). The action can generally be very smooth, but the framerate dipped occasionally when I was driving. The biggest problem in the game is the load times. It takes upwards of a minute to get into the police headquarters or load a story mission, and the funky detective show music that plays will wear on you fast when you're watching the badge spin on the screen. LEGO City Undercover isn't a game-changer for the Nintendo Wii U, but it's a compelling argument to dust off the four-month-old system and play something that isn't a Nintendo franchise or a port of a game released a year ago.