LEGO Dimensions Fun Pack: DC Aquaman LEGO Dimensions Fun Pack: DC Superman LEGO Dimensions Level Pack: Midway Retro Gamer LEGO Dimensions Fun Pack: Ghostbusters Stay Puft LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack Xbox OneFor the first time in any LEGO® videogame, characters from a mix of some of the best brands in the universe join forces and battle in worlds outside of their own.By purchasing additional expansion packs, players can grow their collection with a variety of their favourite brands to create even more crazy combinations.Bring up to seven minifigures, vehicles and/or gadgets into the game all at once by dropping them on the LEGO® Toy Pad for the most exciting and action-filled game around.Play Alone or with a Friend. Players can let imagination guide their solo journey or have a friend join the adventure with co-operative, drop-in/drop-out play.The Starter Pack Will Last. The LEGO® Toy Pad and the videogame found in the initial Starter Pack will offer continued compatibility with future Expansion Packs for years to come.
Like any LEGO building set, LEGO Dimensions is a system of play that offers continued compatibility – everything bought today or expanded with tomorrow will continue to work. LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack X360 LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack PS3 LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack Wii U LEGO Dimensions Story Pack: Batman Movie LEGO Dimensions Supergirl Starter Pack PS4 LEGO Dimensions Story Pack: Ghostbusters LEGO Dimensions Level Pack: The SimpsonsThis website no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or below, please upgrade to a newer browser. Target has a new app With new features and a new design it’s quicker and easier to shop at Target FREE Click + Collect FREE Delivery on orders over $80* Give your kids non-stop fun with LEGO® Dimensions™ action-adventure video game available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox One. LEGO® Dimensions™ is endless hours of fun letting their imagination run wild, becoming multiple LEGO® characters in various LEGO® worlds.
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Traveller’s Tales have the opposite problem though, and just can’t stop pumping out multiple new Lego games every year. So there’s a sweet kind of irony that a team-up between the two is apparently the only way to get a new Portal game. There is of course more to Warner’s toys-to-life game than just Portal, but they’re sensible enough to realise that having Chell, GlaDOS, and Wheatley in Lego Dimensions is the best way to try and deflect accusations that this is just another Lego game and just another attempt to fleece money from unwary parent’s wallets. Accusations that are entirely justified, and yet still we can’t bring ourselves to dislike it. The premise of Lego Dimensions has been clear for a while: like Disney Infinity it replicates various disparate properties with their own mini-games, but it also allows for characters from different universes to mingle together. This includes a dizzying array of unconnected movies and TV shows, such as (deep breath): Back to the Future, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Portal, Jurassic World, Scooby-Doo, DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, Ghostbusters, and Lego properties such as Ninjago and Chima.
Star Wars and Marvel are not included though, despite both having existing Lego games, because they’re owned by Disney and this game is in direct competition with Disney Infinity. But while Disney were initially rather timid about mixing and matching from different films Lego has it front and centre as the key feature, to the point where the three figures included in the starter pack are Batman, Gandalf the Grey, and Wyldstyle (from the Lego Movie). Also included with the starter pack (which is currently pre-ordering for around £100) is the ‘toy pad’ onto which you must place the figures in order for them to be recognised by the game. One of the key points that Warner was trying to get across at E3 is that the pad can hold up to seven toys at once. This can include vehicles, with the Batmobile being included in the starter pack, and since this is Lego you have to actually build them before you can use them. Since it’s only the little dais they sit on that’s recognised by the game you can technically have whatever you like on the toy pad.
Although you can rebuild any of the vehicles in one of three forms, to increase the illusion that the game knows what you’re doing. But moving toys around on the pad is also used as part of the gameplay, unlike other toys-to-life games where it’s a purely functional part of the experience. The first part of the E3 demo seems to be the first level, and is set along the Wizard of Oz’s Yellow Brick Road. Here it becomes obvious that the tried and tested Lego gameplay is still the backbone of the game, with the same sort of simple puzzles and one-button combat. The jokes are still intact too, with several lines that made us chuckle, such as the Tinman asking Batman what he’s missing and him answering, ‘A sense of humour’. At one point further passage becomes impossible until you rebuild the Batmobile as a ‘Bat Blaster’, but it’s all heavily telegraphed and we’re not sure we’d really count it as a puzzle. When you get to the boss fight with the Wicked Witch of the West moving the toys around on the pad also comes into play, with the witch stunning various characters and the only way to wake them up being to move them to a different position on the pad.
A subsequent Scooby-Doo level uses similar ideas purely for puzzle purposes, with the pad able to light up in different colours – which results in some relatively complex colour switching and matching with the characters. The Scooby-Doo level is great, by the way, and unlike the rest of the game it’s cel-shaded, so as to look as much like the ’70s cartoon as possible – right down to the sampled voiceovers (that or they’re amazingly good soundalikes). It’s the Portal level that offers the greatest deviation from the Lego norm, although not necessarily in the way you’d expect. Although Chell herself is armed with a portal gun she’s not one of the starter characters, and so they have to play through GLaDOS’s puzzles using collectable ‘keystones’. These enable various abilities, many familiar from previous Lego games, such as shrinking or growing characters or levitating a Companion Cube through a series of tubes. The toy pad is also used for a number of the puzzles, including changing the colour of the characters by placing their toys on specific spots.
The pad can also be used as a sort of compass to find hidden objects, with a flash of red indicating you’re going the wrong way and green that an item is near. Although it’s implied that everything we see is available with the starter pack, you certainly can’t play as anyone else without buying their character’s toy. So, for example, the cameo of Homer Simpson appearing through a portal is purely non-playable. Chell herself is only available as part of a level pack – the most expensive kind of add-on, which although it comes with three toys and its own new set of story levels costs around £30 on its own. Questions of value for money are very subjective though and we can’t begin to judge the situation properly until we see how much content the game and its expansions contain. All we can say is what we’ve seen of the game is making a real effort to justify the toys-to-life concept, and to be as authentic to all the source material as possible. And if nothing else at least you’re guaranteed the actual toys will be good…