You might be feverishly waiting for the launch of Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens but Lego Marvel Avengers more than just a decent game to tide you over. Play through the storylines of films including Age of Ultron with more than 100 characters. Here's our Lego Marvel Avengers review. See: Most anticipated games of 2016. Also see: Best Black Friday Games Deals Lego Marvel Avengers is the second game collaboration between Lego and Marvel and although it's based on more movies than Lego Marvel Super Heroes, released in 2013, does that make it better? As is typical with Lego franchise games, Marvel Avengers is available on a wide range of platforms including PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. Current pricing ranges from £21 to £36 via Amazon depending on which platform you need or want. We've reviewed Lego Marvel Avengers on Xbox One. As mentioned, Marvel Avengers is set within various films from the last few years, so comic diehards might be a bit disappointed.
Although there is the use of various movies the way they are threaded together is somewhat confusing. The original audio from the films is used but it doesn't mix particularly well with the games sound and music, or the additional tracks made especially for the game. To explain a little further, the game starts out with the opening of Age of Ultron but then jumps to telling the story line of Avengers Assemble. As well as covering these two main titles, Lego Marvel Avengers also covers bits of Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier – and not in a way which makes sense. It's perhaps a little too much to fit into one title and doesn't make for the smoothest experience. While this is a downside, Lego Marvel Avengers makes up for it with good old fashioned, classic gaming fun. The game follows the formula of the many Lego game which have gone before it, although Lego Dimensions is an exception in the way offers a toy-to-life setup.
This means the familiar arrangement of elements such as the way you progress though a level solving puzzles and beating up baddies. Of course, you are able to switch characters as you collect Lego studs and spend as long as you want completing extra tasks such as finding mini-kit pieces. Click here for more games news and reviews Lego is in a difficult position where the formula works but it can then feel overly samey to previous titles. To combat this, there are new powers and abilities for you to get to grips with. That sounds great but the problem is that it takes a long time to beat up a regular thug with the normal combat moves despite there being a special QTE (quick time event) move available. This involves you pressing a single button when prompted to, for example, use Captain America's shield to take care of an enemy. The moves are cool but take next to no skill to execute and take far too long to complete. The best new addition is the ability to double team combo two characters together.
Once again it's too simple to be really rewarding to the player, although you do need a high enough combat multiplier, but some of the combos look great and are well thought out. They also suit the co-op gameplay if you're playing with someone else. One of the main draws of Lego Marvel Avengers is the chance to play as characters such as Thor, Black Widow and The Hulk. As mentioned there are over 100 characters to play as, many of which have never been in a Lego game before. Before you get too excited, that figure includes various versions of characters – ie Captain America with a different outfit. A fun addition on the character side of things is the chance to create your own using parts of the characters. For example, you can create a mashup using parts like Iron Man's head and Captain America's shield. One of the frustrations, as usual, is the need to have certain characters to unlock areas of a level or use particular items. You can't choose who you want in each level as you play through the campaign so you'll have to go back if you're keen on completing the game to 100 percent.
In fact, you'll switch between different groups of heroes during levels. The campaign is well paced and we love the humorous gags which make these Lego games fell that extra bit fun and more enjoyable. Players will also benefit from the ability to free roam Manhattan in its open world goodness, plus a bunch of smaller areas such as Hawkeye's hangout, the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier and Asgard. These are all jammed with collectible items and side-missions with the ability to quickly switch to any of the characters which you've unlocked in the game as you choose. Just flying around Manhattan as Iron Man or Thor is great fun in itself.LEGO Marvel Super Heroes LEGO Marvel's Avengers(January 26 2016) The Silver Surfer comes to Earth to herald Galactus' arrival, but is attacked by Doctor Doom and knocked out of the sky. His surfboard is shattered into "cosmic bricks". Doctor Doom hires villains such as Magneto, Loki and Venom to gather the bricks to build "Dr. Doom's Doom Ray of Doom".
Realizing the gravity of the situation Nick Fury gathers the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and various other heroes to get back the bricks.We have detected a history of abnormal traffic from your network so we ask that you please complete the following form to confirm that you are not a robot and are indeed a real person. Most of this time this happens if there has been a lot of malicious bot activity from your current internet provider's network or you are using a VPN. It likely has nothing to do with you. We're really sorry for the hassle.Comic book movies have been around for decades, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe took the genre to a new level upon the release of Iron Man in 2008, aiming for a connected movie universe unlike any that had come before it. After numerous failures to bring the MCU to video games, TT Games is now getting their chance with a very faithful adaptation in LEGO Marvel’s Avengers.The LEGO brand of games has been very prolific over the last decade or so, bringing properties like Star Wars, Batman, and many others to life in LEGO form.
The gameplay found in these games has been relatively simple, as you traverse a variety of different locations with various characters that have special sets of skills. Along the way, you must fight enemies and get past obstacles by solving puzzles that often require a little bit of thinking.LEGO Marvel’s Avengers follows the same pattern as previous LEGO outings, including the usage of an open world hub area that you can explore much like the previous LEGO Marvel game utilized. Essentially it does not try to break any new ground here. The characters must still fight enemies and solve puzzles while advancing through a variety of different locations, though the diverse set of skills from the different heroes is pretty vast. This can lead to some tedious gameplay in long gaming sessions, even with the changing between characters. However, what really makes this game special is the connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the ability to play through recreations of many of the scenes in the more recent movies.
As the name of the game would suggest, the major focus here is on The Avengers and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, both of which get almost fully recreated. All of the major scenes have been LEGOfied through either gameplay or cutscenes, with a few of the usual LEGO twists thrown in for many of them. The game even goes as far as to recreate the mid-credits and post-credits scenes, which shows the dedication to being as exact as possible. Beyond those two films, the game also features sections based on a few other movies, though they are much more condensed.As the only non-Avengers movie from Phase 1, Captain America: The First Avenger has a two part section that pops up in a perfect spot during the Avengers section. Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier also have their own sections, though they are more standalone missions that are relatively short. While these are not to the level of the two Avengers recreations, these segments are still very faithful to the source material and give players the chance to experience something a little different than the hero teamups.
While the main focus is on the story missions based on the different movies, there is also an open world aspect of the game that gives you a lot more freedom. During the main story, you will visit some of these areas, but the free play mode is where you will get the most out of the open world locations. The largest of these by far is Manhattan, with much smaller areas like Washington DC and Asgard also being available, though those are more closed off, while still offering a number of side missions for you.Within each of these, you will have a large city to explore while collecting new characters, gold bricks, and much more. You can even just fly around the city as Iron Man or Thor for awhile, or commandeer vehicles from the street and drive them around the town. The story mode offers players a very respectable game length on its own, but these extra areas really add a lot of longevity and replay value to this game that will have players coming back for much more.Unlike the previous LEGO Marvel Super Heroes that was based on just the properties of Marvel as a whole, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is specifically based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which certainly does lead to some restrictions in the character roster.
Pretty much any character from the MCU was fair game to be included here, with a ton of playable characters. There are even a lot of characters that have not been introduced like the new Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl, but you won’t see any sign of characters like Spider-Man or the X-Men unfortunately. This may be disappointing for many that loved the variety found in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes beyond the MCU, but the game gives players anything they could want from the movie universe and more with the selection that is provided.Taking a cue from games like last year’s LEGO Jurassic World, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers includes actual voice clips from the movies it is based upon. With the caliber of actors that are in the Marvel films, it would have been near impossible to get them in to record new dialogue without paying a fortune, so instead the developers do a fantastic job at interweaving the actual clips from the movies throughout. Getting a few actors like Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) to record new voice clips greatly helps to bridge the gap between the movie dialogue, though some of the actual recast roles left a little to be desired.
Gives gamers anything they could want from the movie universe and moreThe voice acting wasn’t the only thing connecting it to the movies either, as they also used parts of the movie score as well. The Avengers soundtracks may not be anywhere near as iconic as series like Star Wars, but it still is very effective in its use throughout LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. The main theme from The Avengers is used a good bit and is just as wonderful to listen to here in the game as it is in the movie.While the sound mix in LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is spot on, there were some technical bugs in the gameplay itself that caused some issues while playing. As with all the LEGO games, there are occasional moments where one character gets stuck on an object or something. One flaw that pretty much every LEGO game has had is the spotty switching between characters, as it is not always the most accurate, especially when controlling four characters at once.While this can still be an issue here, the main problem was a specific bug that happened a few different times where it became impossible to switch between characters after a random point in a level.