A new Lego collectible-toy game combining characters and worlds from DC Comics, Lords of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz and Back to The Future will coming this fall. You might need to free up some space. The Lego Dimensions reveal is the culmination of a teaser campaign from earlier this week, which had images of Batman, Gandalf and The Lego Movie’s Wyldstyle tagged with “#BreaktheRules.” An apparent leak this morning showed that the teasers are all about an upcoming collectible toy-based video game called Lego Dimensions. Lego Dimensions will be coming out on September 29 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U. Word of the game hit ahead of schedule when a user on the Lego sub-Reddit shared an image and description for the game, which looks like it’ll follow the same collectible-toy model set up by Skylanders and Disney Infinity. If this winds up being legit, it looks like Lego Dimensions will be mashing up game characters from DC Comics, Lord of the Rings and other properties that have gotten the Lego game treatment.
The portal-like toy piece in the leaked image matches the shape of the recurring element in teasers that have gone out this week: And here’s the official trailer, which has hit now that the broken embargo is up:Here’s a few more details from the official press release: For the first time in any LEGO videogame, characters from iconic entertainment franchises join forces and battle in worlds outside of their own. In addition to the game, the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack will include the LEGO Toy Pad, which allows players to transport special LEGO minifigures and other LEGO objects into the game, bricks to build the LEGO Gateway, three LEGO Minifigures, including LEGO BatmanTM from DC Comics, LEGO Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie, plus the LEGO BatmobileTM.In addition to the three minifigure heroes used to start the experience, LEGO Dimensions will allow gamers to customize their experience with additional expansion packs. Highly collectible Level Packs, Team Packs and Fun Packs will provide new buildable characters, vehicles, tools and gadgets, as well as compelling game content with new mission-based levels and unique in-game abilities.
All expansion packs will feature well-known properties and provide gamers the opportunity to use everything interchangeably, anywhere throughout the game – with no limitations. A small sample of packs available in 2015 include the Back to the Future Level Pack with a LEGO Marty McFly minifigure, a LEGO Ninjago Team Pack with Kai and Cole minifigures, three Ninjago Fun Packs with Jay, Nya and Zane minifigures, two DC Comics Fun Packs with Wonder Woman and Cyborg minifigures, three The Lord of the Rings Fun Packs with LEGO Gollum, LEGO Gimli and LEGO Legolas minifigures, four The LEGO Movie Fun packs with Emmet, Bad Cop, Benny and Unikitty characters, and a The Wizard of Oz Fun Pack with a LEGO Wicked Witch of the West minifigure. Additional packs to round out the 2015 assortment will be announced in the months leading to launch. Further waves of expansion packs will be released regularly following the launch of the game and into 2016.President Trump orders his steak well done with ketchup
Brie Larson refused to clap for Casey Affleck at the Oscars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty apparently fought over reading the Best Picture winner Last night’s Oscars mix-up may have been caused by a tweetThe LEGO Dimensions Launch Trailer is Here!LEGO Dimensions launch trailer has arrivedWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group have released (via EW) the official LEGO Dimensions launch trailer, showing off the countless heroes that fans will have at their disposal in the game. Check it out in the player below! When a mysterious and powerful vortex suddenly appears in various LEGO worlds, different characters from DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings and The LEGO Movie are swept away. To save their friends, LEGO Batman, LEGO Gandalf and LEGO Wyldstyle journey to locations beyond their wildest imaginations, and they soon realize that Lord Vortech is summoning villains from across different LEGO worlds to help him gain control. Our heroes must travel through space and time to rescue their friends before the vortexes destroy all of LEGO humanity.
LEGO Dimensions, the upcoming entertainment experience that merges physical brick building with interactive console gameplay, will include gameplay from “The Simpsons,” “Doctor Who,” Ghostbusters, Portal, Jurassic World, Midway Arcade, LEGO Chima and “Scooby-Doo!” These fan-favorite worlds, most of which have never before been in a LEGO video game, will converge with DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The LEGO Movie, The Wizard of Oz, LEGO Ninjago and Back to the Future worlds in one thrilling adventure playable with the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack.LEGO Dimensions will be available for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii U on September 27, 2015. You can pre-order the Starter Pack by clicking here.Frankly, it's a surprise it's taken this long for the team at Traveller's Tales to get their hands on the Jurassic Park license. But on the plus side, it's meant they have managed to squeeze the brand new Jurassic World entry into the game alongside the original trilogy.
In fact, if you want to dive into the new movie straight away, you can after the prologue level. But if, like us, you love the original movies, you'll want to play through from the very start. By now, TT are seasoned pros at reproducing iconic moments from films into family-friendly games. They've had their work cut out for them though as the original movie is surprisingly violent, so the game has been heavily reimagined or cut. So nobody really dies, goat spines don't land on sunroofs and you certainly won't be seeing Samuel L. Jackson's severed arm flopping onto Laura Dern's shoulder. Hell, even Dennis Nedry has even been slimmed down (because Lego doesn't do fat). I'm surprised (disproportionately outraged) the electric fence scene has been completely cut though. There's no beating around the bush. It's another Lego game, so don't expect any genuine innovations. Aside from enjoying the Lego games' established gameplay, your main reason for buying this should be a love for the source material.
Expect the usual mix of platforming and smashing everything made of Lego in sight. Unlike real life, any problem in Lego games can be solved with wanton destruction and that's the status quo once again. Naturally, the formula's been tweaked enough to match the skills of the cast. So Alan will use his dug-up Raptor claw to cut through vines and a trowel to dig up items. Ellie will stick her hands into piles of dino doodoo. Muldoon can track footprints. Malcolm will solve equation boards, look smug and use a flare to light up dark areas. Timmy crawls though vents. Lex hacks computers or screams so loud enough to shatter glass and so on. Familiar concepts, but put through a Jurassic Park filter. Crucially, most of them will bring a knowing smile to any fan's face. The dialogue audio from the original movies is used like we saw in Lego Hobbit/LOTR. Although, the quality of the voice recordings is really poor, sounding like an old VHS, rather than a blu-ray. Hell, Ellie's grunt noise when fighting sounds like it's coming out of a GameBoy from under a pile of laundry.
The addition of dinosaurs to the playable roster soon brings back the smiles though, even if their use in Jurassic World working with the humans is as daft as it sounds. Raptors are featured the most in the campaign, but the Triceratops gets in on the action too thanks to their ability to smash through things. Playable dinos are more of a feature in the end game's open-world island as you hunt down another epic haul of red/gold bricks, minikits and employees in peril. As far as gameplay goes, you'll enjoy familiar stages involving breaking items, rebuilding them as zany tools and having a good time just ploughing through, especially if played with a friend instead of doing everything yourself. The chase scenes are a massive highlight and really bring back some of the film's magic, be they on foot or in the car fleeing the iconic T-Rex. Do try and play the game in co-op though as the teamwork is great fun as one player drives while the other flings flares in Rex's gaping maw when he unleashes that iconic roar.
If you've played a few Lego games in the past, you'll probably be expecting the odd rough edge. But here's the thing, Lego Jurassic World is a technical shambles (note: I've only played the PS4 version). And I'm not talking about frame-rates or the interact button not working sometimes; I'm talking proper issues that'll have gamers of all ages nearing tantrum-esque levels of fury. Playable characters and vehicles constantly get stuck in walls or trapped in locked animations forcing a restart that often requires near-complete chapters to be played from the beginning. An essential vehicle disappeared from the hub world between levels, but I didn't know it was gone, so I spent ages exploring the rest of the island for it, only to give up and reboot the game to find it magically reborn about ten feet from where I started.How about climbable swing-vines that you'll leap straight through time after time, losing thousands of studs until the game acknowledges there's something to grab.
The Raptor's ledge grab lock-on rarely works and often requires player two to drop-out when playing in co-op because the camera angle refuses to look at it. A huge battle scene with a T-Rex vs the Spinosaurus is ruined thanks to the final QTE prompt not actually appearing on-screen, we had to guess which button it might be as it would be different each time and after a while we bluffed through. Trophies will ping for finishing each chapter, but some won't actually appear in your collection. They may ping when you replay a level. But the warning signs of a potential borked Platinum hunt like the unfixed Laketown glitch in Lego Hobbit certainly threaten to stop the end game fun dead in its tracks. That would be a shame too, as the end game is what we really enjoy getting stuck into with TT's Lego games. Discover a few red bricks and you can start hunting down those gold blocks/minikits and making sure to add every single character to your roster. Replaying the story levels in freeplay mode lets you use newly unlocked characters to reach new areas in the usual way and will last for way longer than the initial eight hours it takes to finish the campaign first time around.
The hub islands for each film aren't as open as those found in past Lego games, but still provide an undeniably moreish experience to fans of shiny collectibles. The character select wheel is still an utter swine though as it never seems to keep the character you want on it, meaning you have to dive into that ridiculous mega list of characters, which is even more unreadable when playing co-op. But if, like me, you love the old movies and have a fair few Lego games in your collection already, you'll push through all manner of annoyance and bugs for the good parts. I'd wait for patches and discounts for a while though as ropey releases like this shouldn't be encouraged. The Short Version: Lego Jurassic World has clearly been rushed through to release alongside the new movie, and as such is riddled with bugs and glitches -more so than any other licensed Lego game. There are plenty of grin-inducing moments for fans of these incredible movies though and as such Lego Jurassic World is still worth a look if you love the films enough to forgive the defects in its DNA.