Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins is a sandbox-style action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion, that was released on the Nintendo 3DS in April 2013.[1] Unlike previous Lego titles developed by Traveller's Tales, which have been based on various licenses, the game is based on the Lego City brand and was published by Nintendo. It serves as a prequel to Lego City Undercover. Set about 2 years before the events of Lego City Undercover, Chase McCain, a rookie cop working for the Lego City Police Department, has one objective in his mind: to put the most wanted man, Rex Fury, into jail. As far as story connections go, it was Chase who accidentally revealed that Natalia Kowalski, who previously worked as a news reporter turned out to be the secret witness in the Rex trial, which forced her to go under witness protection. It also outlines how Chase managed to arrest Rex Fury. Furthermore, the game reveals that Mayor Gleeson, a character also featured in Lego City Undercover, was formerly the chief of police, and how Chief Dunby was just a common officer.
The game was first announced during Nintendo's press conference at E3 2011 on 7 June 2011 with the tentative name Lego City Stories. On 17 January 2013, the game was revealed to be Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins, and that it would be a prequel to the Wii U game. Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins received mixed reviews with aggregate scores of 64% from GameRankings and 65/100 from Metacritic.[3] IGN gave it 6.3/10, calling it a "decent" game that is marred by "a lot of fog, a lot of loading, no voice acting and a jarring framerate". Liam Martin of Digital Spy gave the game 3 out of 5 stars, commenting on the games lack of appeal but praising the game's visuals and stating that "Unfortunately, where LEGO City Undercover referenced movies and used voice acting to great effect, hardware limitations have forced TT Fusion to keep spoken cutscenes to a minimum, something which ultimately detracts from the hilarity. Despite its flaws, LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins is a charming release, packed with diverse missions, mostly impressive visuals and a great cast of characters."
Chris Scullion of Official Nintendo Magazine gave the game 64% out of 100, commenting on the amount of cutbacks from the Wii U sequel (Undercover), stating that "The Chase Begins has far less funnier bones than Undercover. The silly jokes, clever spoofs and brilliant dialogue between the characters have been replaced with a handful of average cutscenes and loads of text-heavy dialogue which, while functional, are rarely amusing and never hilarious. Loading times were frustrating enough in LEGO City: Undercover but are even more infuriating here considering the game's running off a cartridge and is designed for handheld play. It's lacking visually, too. Thick fog (to hide having to render distant buildings) smothers the city and roads and pavements are far less crowded, making it feel like you're wandering around a post-apocalyptic LEGO City. The characters' faces don't move, making in-game cutscenes feel awkward and the frame rate is clunky if you're playing in 3D. It's technically impressive(ish), but not as fun or funny as the Wii U game."
On 12 September 2013 Nintendo announced that the game has sold 264,000 units in North America.Mixed or average reviews Mixed or average reviews- based on 62 Ratings See all 44 Critic Reviews This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. See all 11 User Reviews LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins - Gameplay Trailer - 3 years 6 months ago EditChapter 15: Far above the Call of Duty After averting disaster at Blackwell Tower, you'll need to get to Apollo Island and build a space ship of your own. Get to the launch pad and begin ascending, grabbing the superbricks as you go. Use this astronaut crate to beam in a superbrick, then climb along the tower to the right, then back left to grab it. Climb to the blue plank where you can grab another superbrick. Another superbrick can be found on the very top of the tower and another one two near the bottom. One requires you to beam through a teleporter and the other is below a locked skylight. Once you have enough superbricks, jump down and build the space shuttle so you can chase Blackwell into the final frontier.
Special Assignment 15: Fly Me to the Moon' LEGO City: Undercover Wiki Guide Nintendo Items and Easter Eggs How to Use This Walkthrough Fly Me to the Moon How To Save VehiclesUPDATE 10/11/16: Nintendo has at last confirmed the end of Wii U production. Nine days ago Eurogamer reported the final Wii U model would roll off of Nintendo's production line that following Friday. A day later, Nintendo publicly denied our report. "There is no change to our continuing [Wii U] production," a spokesperson told Japanese site IT Media (thanks, Kotaku). Wii U ending production "was not true", the spokesperson said, and "even though the Nintendo Switch is slated to go on sale, [Wii U] production is scheduled to continue." Today, Nintendo's official site has been updated. It reads: Wii U "production is scheduled to end". Production, of course, can mean anything Nintendo wants it to - the physical manufacture of Nintendo's final Wii U unit, the packaging of the final box, the shipment of its order to Nintendo's warehouse.
But the final Wii U has now been physically made, and this era of Nintendo's hardware is - now officially - over. UPDATE 1/11/16: Nintendo will end Wii U production this Friday, multiple sources have confirmed to Eurogamer. At the last official count, as of 30th September, Nintendo had shipped 13.36m Wii U consoles. The Wii U's final tally will likely now be only slightly more. For comparisons sake, GameCube sold 21m. Nintendo's Japanese production line will shut down for the last time this week after the final deadline for orders passed yesterday, Eurogamer understands. Only a small number of further orders were placed. Wii U launched back in November 2012 and quickly shifted a couple of million units, although sales have been steady to slow ever since. For the 12 months ending 31st March 2017, Nintendo forecasted it would ship just 800k Wii U units. 560k of those had already been shifted as of 30th September, suggesting a further 240k will have been produced since then, as of this Friday, to round out the console for good.