Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (2012) Video game released 19 June 2012 (creator: "Batman" comic book and characters) 24 more credits » Ra's al Ghul /(as Katie Von Till) Batman and Robin join forces with Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from Lex Luthor and The Joker.See All (2) » Release Date: 19 June 2012 (USA) Also Known As: Lego Betmen 2: DC Superjunaci The first lego dc game that included other dc universe characters apart from the bat-family See more » Version of LEGO DC Super Heroes: Justice League - Attack of the Legion of Doom! Original Music from [link=tt0078346] Written by John Williams See more » Contribute to This Page Harley Quinn is a villain in LEGO Batman: The Videogame. Dr. Harleen Quinzel was a budding psychiatrist with an obsession for the criminally insane, specifically the Joker. While serious business at first, an interview turned into a date after the Joker twisted her mind with possibly false origin stories.
After coming to the conclusion that her "puddin" didn't belong in Arkham Asylum, she donned a jester's costume and became his on-and-off girlfriend, Harley Quinn! Having escaped Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn allied herself with The Joker and helped with his plan to flood Gotham City with laughing-gas. She aids the Joker by capturing Commissioner Gordon and fighting Batman and Robin. She fails to defeat them, however, but the Joker still allows Quinn to help in his plans, and it is Harley herself who helps finish the final piece of the plan by rigging Gotham Cathderal with bombs and Joker Gas. When the Dynamic Duo arrives at the Cathederal, Harley delays the Duo by battling them from a ledge, allowing Joker enough time to race up to the Bell Tower. When she is again defeated, she retreats into the Cathederal to join Joker in the Bell Tower. She is knocked out by Batman and Robin in a final, grueling battle with Joker and, despite the Joker's surprise attack on Batman and Robin, she is captured and sent back to Arkham Asylum.
She is last seen in her cell, fixated on a poster of the Joker. Harley Quinn reappears in LEGO Batman's sequel, where she is a member of the gang led by The Joker that attacks the Man Of the Year Awards at the game's beginning. When Batman and Robin appear on the scene, Harley stays behind to fight them whilst the other villains escape. She is defeated and returned to Arkham Asylum. She is later freed by Lex Luthor's Deconstructor and escapes with the other villains, only to be apprehended by Batman again. However Harley along with the other villains successfully escape a second time, where she travels to Amusement Mile alone. Harley can be optionally fought and unlocked as a playable character. Harley Quinn in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.Through the 15 missions in the LEGO Batman 2 campaign, there are 10 mini-kit items that can be found in each by performing some crafty tricks and using various character powers. To get the mini-kits required for each level, you’ll need to play through each mission in Free Play mode after the campaign is first completed.
Not only do you need to switch to other characters, you’ll first need to have certain characters unlocked and available in your stable. You’ll need The Penguin, Aquaman, The Joker, The Riddler, Man-Bat, Lex Luthor, and Poison Ivy to get all the mini-kits. Once you have gone through the trouble of finding all the kits, you can do a little jig in celebration of the additional 15 new tiny vehicles, as well as some achievements and trophies for your troubles. Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham hews close to the series’ formula, pairing uncomplicated gameplay with a deep, charming dive into decades’ worth of DC Comics stories and history. But after the impressive freedom of Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel, Lego Batman 3 feels far more restrictive in scope, and its inconsistent tone sometimes seems to mock the great DC Comics source material it should be celebrating. Picking up from the end of Lego Batman 2, the villain Braniac drives most of the fun but scattered plot in Lego Batman 3. Without giving too much away, Batman and the rest of the Justice League have to team up with the likes of Lex Luthor, the Joker, and the rest of the Legion of Doom to bring him down, and sort out some trouble with the various Lantern Corps.
It’s not as strong or as focused a story as in either Lego Marvel or Lego Batman 2, but it manages to keep the interest high through most of the 10 hours or so it took to finish it. To ensure constant variety, Lego Batman 3 uses the same format as Lego Marvel, where different playable characters drop in and out of the missions at each checkpoint. You may be playing as Batman and Robin one moment, and then Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter the next. It definitely helps break up the action, which otherwise might get old quickly due to the simplistic attacks, and celebrates a larger roster of DC favorites. The best new addition to the system is that you can now load specific checkpoints of missions for Free Play; it makes finding all those little secrets so much more convenient. When the story missions are finished, there’s loads more to do here, including plenty of other mission-style content. We’re sort of left to figure that stuff out for ourselves, which is actually not such a bad thing;
accidentally stumbling on a mission that recreates an old Adam West Batman TV show episode was fantastic. There are also options to explore the Hall of Justice and Hall of Doom, which are super fun for a DC fan like myself. I also enjoyed unlocking some of the more obscure characters from the DC canon – I’m sure not many people are exactly champing at the bit to play as Etrigan or The Question, but it’s great that those more obscure characters get to share the stage with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman. It’s clear the game makers love the source material. From Wonder Woman’s idle animation where she does the Linda Carter-style twirl to Flash’s frequent stints on the Cosmic Treadmill and the payoff of that final revelation between Batman and Robin, Lego Batman 3 does a great job of showcasing moments that’ll resonate with fans of the comics. While it’s not quite as developed here as it was in Lego Marvel, I still appreciate that each character has a unique combination of abilities.
Martian Manhunter and Superman both have heat vision, but the green guy can also control minds, while Supes has frost breath. This approach to character powers gives us lots of options, which are furthered by the excellent new suit system. No longer do you have to wait to find a station to swap out for the Magnet suit or the Sonar suit, because now characters like Batman, Robin, and Cyborg can change their power setups on the fly. Being able to change at will to any suit you’ve unlocked eliminates a lot of tedium. Even better, a quick button press instantly swaps you to the suit that’s appropriate to the obstacle you’ve encountered. While not every game has to be open-world to be good, playing Lego Batman 3 made me long for the freedom of Lego Batman 2. Instead of roaming through the streets of Gotham at your discretion, you’re mostly just running back and forth between the Batcave and the Watchtower. There are limited open-world options for the various Lantern planets, but those aren’t part of the main story and are generally small and pretty light on things to do.
So why even have these unlockable vehicles if there’s nowhere fun to drive them? My biggest disappointment with Lego Batman 3 is its inconsistent tone. The developers definitely love the source material, but there are moments where they take a substantial step away from familiar franchise turf to introduce elements that immediately start to erode the fun of being in the world of the comics. When Braniac comes to Earth, we don’t get to battle him in iconic DC locations like Smallville, Gorilla City, or Paradise Island; No, Braniac just terrorizes Paris or Pisa. Shortly after that, you spend the final third of the story missions on a sort of sci-fi tour through unfamiliar Lantern worlds, which is kind of a letdown. I also have to question the decision to include these annoying cameos. Instead of DC’s quintessential everyman Jimmy Olsen, this game’s ubiquitous hanger-on is Conan O’Brien. He’s all over the place, repeating the same gags every time you see him. After a while, making jokes about how there are no Labradors in the Batcave laboratory gets kind of old.
You even end up spending quite a bit of time with Daffy Duck as Green Loontern, which, again, kills the mood for me. Yes, I get it; it’s a game where Cyborg can fool a security camera by turning into a washing machine, but there’s a difference between making a joke about the characters and just surrounding them with other stuff that also happens to be part of the Warner Bros. empire. (I didn’t have as much of a problem with the inclusion of references to the Batman TV show because that, at least, seems to make some sense within Lego Batman 3’s world – and unlike Daffy Duck, Adam West isn’t hanging around the Watchtower talking about space the whole time.) I like Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, but I don’t love it as much as I’ve loved previous games in the series. It definitely delivers on the promise of letting me play with charmingly realized versions of many of my favorite DC heroes and villains, and it even presents a setting with lots of great surprises, challenges, and systems that promote variety.