- 4 years 8 months ago The Walkthrough section covers the main missions in LEGO Batman 2. Missions included are listed below. EditMain Missions Theatrical Pursuits Harboring a Criminal Arkham Asylum Antics Asylum Assignment Chemical Crisis Chemical Signature Unwelcome Guests Destination Metropolis Research and Development Down to Earth Underground Retreat The Next President Core Instability Tower Defiance Heroes Unite See All Top Contributors » Need assistance with editing this wiki? Check out these resources: Beginner's Guide to Wikis LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Wiki Guide Video Walkthroughs & Tips Defeat that Prince JAR ActionCasualDLCFightingMusic & PartyPuzzle & CardsRole-PlayingShooterSportsStrategyStrategy Guides Audio & VisualBatteries & ChargersCables & AdaptorsControllersGame SystemsGear & ApparelHeadsets & MicsInteractive Gaming FiguresMounts & BracketsStorage & CasesVideo & Sound Cards Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes LEGO games are cute, funny and easy to jump into, but they've also been around since 2005.
Whenever someone wandered by my desk and spied me playing LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, he or she would undoubtedly say "Yup, it's another LEGO game" before wandering off. Trouble is, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes isn't just another LEGO game. It does away with hard-to-judge platforming, its puzzles make sense, and it adds a couple of big things that are sure to become staples for the LEGO franchise moving forward. The changes come with growing pains, but there's no denying that LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a great video game. Like the previous game, LEGO Batman 2 spins an original yarn, but this time it's engaging and really interesting. Lex Luthor is running for president, teaming with the Joker and using kryptonite to stuff the ballot box. With foulness afoot, Batman, Robin, Superman and eventually the entire Justice League step in to stop the plot. This plays out via traditional LEGO game controls. You jump, punch and switch between characters with button presses. A friend on the couch can drop in and out for co-op in a jiff.
The game's as simple to understand as ever, but adds new suits for Batman and Robin along with powers for specific characters. Black Canary has her sonic blast, Cyborg is magnetized, and Wonder Woman can lasso hard to reach handles. That's what LEGO games are all about -- exploring and collecting -- and LEGO Batman does that better than any iteration that's come before. It's a focused story that's entertaining from start to finish, and part of that is thanks to voice acting. For the first time in LEGO history, LEGO Batman 2 packs a full voice cast to tell its tale. While the silent LEGO games have always been funny, LEGO Batman 2 is able to move beyond shrugs and grins. Robin fanboying out over Superman, Vicki Vale's newscasts, and Lex trying to convince Joker that killing Batman is a good idea -- these are brilliant moments we would've lost without the excellent actors. Among these actors is Superman: The Animated Series' Clancy Brown reprising his role as Lex Luthor. Fresh voices are used for most of the other characters, but the new takes are welcome.
Of course, the story is just a tiny sliver of any LEGO game. You'll run through the 15-chapter story of LEGO Batman 2 in about nine hours (probably a lot less if you don't methodically smash everything like I did and get distracted by side stuff), but then you'll replay levels for more studs (in-game currency) and to find collectables such as mini-kit parts. See, LEGO Batman 2 has another first for the series: an open world. While LEGO games always have a HUB world, they're usually a bit limited. LEGO Batman 2 gives you all of Gotham City to explore. Arkham Asylum, Ace Chemicals, GCPD -- it's an entire town and it's packed with stuff to collect, save and explore. Red bricks are tucked around corners and unlock cheats, new characters appear on rooftops, and bosses are around to fight and add to your playable roster. There are vehicles to purchase and then drive, people to save and so many studs to collect. Still, it's the Gold Bricks that stand out. There are 250 Golden Bricks. While you'll get them for completing objectives in story missions, the majority are hidden around Gotham and only accessible via certain characters.
Plenty of times I'd be flying around as Superman (the John Williams theme plays any time Kal-El is airborne), spot a Gold Brick, and have to work my way from the goal to the beginning of the challenge so that Robin in his acrobat suit or Batman in his electricity suit could go through the Mousetrap-like obstacle course to unlock the brick the appropriate way. The Gold Bricks are these little challenges inside the greater world that keep you on your toes and have you trying out the more than 50-character roster that includes the Flash, Hush, Martian Manhunter and more. Of course, bringing in all of this new stuff creates a few new – albeit minor -- problems. Zooming around this open world as Flash or Superman, I'd land at objectives and have to wait for the computer terminal I needed to pop in. While the map will show you where bosses and unlockables are, you can't zoom in to really orient where you should be looking so there's a lot of moving a few feet, pausing and reevaluating. The game saves when you nab a Gold Brick, but for some crazy reason, you can't move while it autosaves.
Again, developer Traveller's Tales has nailed the gameplay issues that have plagued the franchise for years, but now, the designers have to take some notes on how modern open worlds work. (Although Red Bricks do eventually label unlockables on the screen.) Greg is the executive editor of IGN PlayStation, cohost of Podcast Beyond and host of Up at Noon. Follow IGN on Twitter, and keep track of Greg's shenanigans on IGN and Twitter. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a collector's paradise. You have to play through the game to get studs to unlock characters to go back to old levels and access different areas to collect more secrets. I polished off the story in about nine hours, but I spent the next 11 chasing down bricks and characters -- and I'm still not done. The open world stuff could use some tweaks, but the little stumbles don't stop LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes from being a great game. Successfully complete one of the following tasks to get a trophy: Complete Hero (Platinum): Collected all of the trophies.
Theatrical Pursuits (Bronze): Complete story level 1. Harboring a Criminal (Bronze): Complete story level 2. Arkham Asylum Antics (Bronze): Complete story level 3. Asylum Assignment (Bronze): Complete story level 4. Chemical Crisis (Bronze): Complete story level 5. Chemical Signature (Bronze): Complete story level 6. Unwelcome Guests (Bronze): Complete story level 7. Destination Metropolis (Bronze): Complete story level 8. Research and Development (Bronze): Complete story level 9. Down to Earth (Bronze): Complete story level 10. Underground Retreat (Bronze): Complete story level 11. The Next President (Bronze): Complete story level 12. Core Instability (Bronze): Complete story level 13. Tower Defiance (Bronze): Complete story level 14. Heroes Unite (Bronze): Complete story level 15. City Slicker (Gold): Collect all the gold bricks (Single Player Only). Halfway Through (Silver): Get 50% (Single Player Only).
The End (Gold): Get 100% (Single Player Only).(Bronze): Collect all the red bricks (Single Player Only). Test Hero (Silver): Test a custom character. Minikit Hero (Gold): Use all the Minikit vehicles. Team Building (Gold): Unlock all characters (Single Player Only). Super Hero (Silver): Get Super Hero in all levels (Single Player Only). My Hero (Silver): Rescue all Citizens in Peril (Single Player Only). Dynamic Duo (Bronze): Play a level in co-op. Justice League (Silver): Unlock all Justice League characters (Single Player Only). Toy Gotham (Bronze): Complete the Bonus level. Super-Villain (Silver): Unlock all the Bosses (Single Player Only). Subway Hero (Bronze): Use the Gotham City Metro. Combo Hero (Bronze): Do a finishing move. The House of Luthor (Silver): Obtain more than 10,100,000,000 Studs (Single Player Only). Girl Power (Silver): Unlock all female heroes and villains. Inferior Machines (Bronze): With Brainiac, defeat any LexBot.