TT Games began one of the most epic journeys of all time with the first LEGO Star Wars game in 2005. Now, 11 years later, we’re finally able to reveal that we’ve been working on LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens! It’s a massive honour to be able to work on a game tied to the incredible Star Wars universe; there are a lot of people at TT Games who hold Star Wars close to their hearts with it being the starting point for the LEGO games — myself included. We’ve covered the original trilogy (LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy), prequel trilogy (LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game) and The Clone Wars (LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars) in great detail before, but now we get to jump ahead to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which brings a whole host of incredible new locations, characters, Droids, and vehicles. Have a look at our awesome announce trailer above… perhaps it might look a bit familiar to you! One of the most amazing parts of all of this is being able to work with Lucasfilm to create new game content with the characters and locations from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, told in a way that only LEGO Star Wars can.
Through a strong collaboration with Lucasfilm, we’ve been able to create new stories and adventures connecting the Star Wars narrative, both before and tying into the movie. As such huge fans of the franchise, it’s a tremendous honour to have that privilege. As part of this, we’re pleased to share that PS4 and PS3 players will have access to exclusive downloadable content in the form of a Droid Character Pack and Phantom Limb Level Pack. We can’t go into too much detail right now, but we can’t wait for people to experience the content from the film, as well as new stories in Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Everyone at TT Games is looking forward to revealing more of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the coming months. In the meantime — May the Force be with you!Recently, Lego games have strayed into dangerous territory which has seen them come uncomfortably close to becoming victims of their own success. While the world at large is still fully in the grip of a Lego moment, TT Games' relentless Lego-ising of publisher Warner Bros' films led to far from unfounded allegations that Lego games were becoming samey and had lost their freshness.
However, Lego Marvel's Avengers marks something of a return to form. For a start, it's clearly a labour of love, rather than a marketing-led contractual obligation. One common brickbat aimed at recent Lego games was they failed to even approach the quality of 2013's Lego Marvel Superheroes, to which Lego Marvel's Avengers is very much the spiritual successor. Is it the return to form and Marvel geek-out success we'd been hoping for?In many respects, yes. Marvel Avengers has an even more voluminous game-world than before – and when you finish the storyline, there's a vast amount of open-world mayhem to be had. It contains an insane number of classic Marvel characters, from the ranks of superheroes, antiheroes and the downright obscure.In a way, Lego Marvel's Avengers' weakest element is its storyline (as ever, it accommodates two-player co-operation from start to finish). It concentrates mainly on the two films The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but also incorporates marquee moments from the likes of Captain America, Iron Man 3 and Thor.The first half of the game's storyline, as a result, is both disjointed and, at times, over-familiar, with (admittedly different in gameplay terms) set-pieces that we've seen in Lego games of yore.
However, the second half of the storyline concentrates a bit more closely on Avengers: Age of Ultron, which does add coherence.TT Games has made plenty of efforts to add welcome variation to the gameplay. So, for example, we get the odd sequence that pays homage to side-scrolling shooters (usually involving Iron Man), and several characters get a new scanner that seeks out hidden objects in the environment as a puzzle-solving aid. Minimally taxing puzzles abound, some new characters bring really fun abilities, such as Quicksilver, who moves at warp-speed. One particular new source of gameplay satisfaction is the ability for two characters to combine to deliver devastating (and often hilariously animated) attacks that take out droves of enemies. Which are often needed, since Lego Marvel's Avengers' action reaches more frenetic heights than that of its predecessors.Also notable – as ever, indeed more so here – is the presence of TT Games' trademark British humour, which relentlessly pokes fun at the films.
Poor old Stan Lee is subjected to a litany of virtual humiliations, and there are countless running gags, such as Hulk's new-found enthusiasm for selfies.When you finish the main story, there are several territories to visit beyond the huge and impressively populated Manhattan, including Sakovia, South Africa and Tony Stark's Malibu beach-house. All, as ever, are rammed with hidden objects and side-missions for which you need to swap to characters that weren't available in the story missions.And the sheer number of characters (up to 250 when the game's DLC drops, which Warner Bros assures us will be uncharacteristically cheap) is incredible. In many ways, the game really begins when you finish the storyline.There are a couple of downsides, however. We did encounter a couple of bugs on the PS4 – including a crash one which, mercifully, didn't repeat. And while the combat has been tarted up, at its core it's still pretty basic, and the boss-battles are little more than lightly disguised quicktime events strung together.
Lego Marvel's Avengers restores much of the goodwill that had recently been ebbing from the Lego franchise. It will delight Marvel geeks in particular, but also hardcore fans of Avengers: Age of Ultron.And as with all the Lego games, it still qualifies as an ideal means of parent-sibling bonding - but will equally delight fans of all ages. Let's hope TT Games and Warner Bros continue in a similar vein because, at last, this sees the Lego gaming franchise back on top form. Dieses Spiel jetzt kaufenab 9,99 € im Preisvergleich Test: LEGO Marvel's AvengersMein Fan-Herz springt! » Alle Artikel zu LEGO Marvel's Avengers - PS4 (1) Jetzt ab 11,49 € bei Amazon bestellen! Verkauf und Versand durch Amazon.de. LEGO Marvel's Avengers ist in verschiedenen Versionen zu haben - außerdem gibt es einen Season-Pass. Zu dessen Inhalten, den PlayStation-exklusiven Gratis-DLCs und weiteren Dingen gibt es nun weitere Details zu erfahren. Im Abspann von LEGO Marvel's Avengers ist der Hinweis auf ein mögliches neues Lego-Spiel zu finden.