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In fact, since most companies stopped making movie and TV tie-ins there’s hardly been any kids games of any kind. But thanks to the toys-to-life concept suddenly they’re big business again. Although what’s more surprising is that all three of this year’s games – Skylanders: SuperChargers, Disney Infinity 3.0, and Lego Dimensions – were actually very good. They were also very expensive, especially if you got dragged down the rabbit hole of buying the extra toys, which in Skylanders’ case opens up new characters and vehicles to play as and new areas to explore. Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions though go further, by adding entirely new levels. We’ll look at Disney Infinity 3.0’s extra Star Wars Play Set later, but for now here’s a review of the four Lego Dimensions Level Packs currently available (Ghostbusters and Midway Arcade are also due out next year). The three other Level Packs were available at launch but the Doctor Who one was only released earlier this month, although this is the first chance we’ve had to play any of them.
The way Lego Dimensions works is that there are three categories of add-on pack: Fun Packs, which contain a minifigure and a vehicle, and cost around £15; Team Packs, which cost £30 for two figures and two vehicles; and Level Packs, which have one figure, two vehicles/gadgets, and an exclusive level. That’s in-line with the pricing for the other toys-to-life games, even though it seems a lot for the small amount of Lego you get. The extra complication is that there are a number of hub worlds themed around each property in the game, and all you need to unlock them is a character from the right theme. So the question is, for example, is it worth paying £30 for The Simpsons level and its toys if you can get the hub world alone by buying Bart or Krusty the Clown for just £15? This situation has been complicated further by a recent patch that introduces the unexpectedly generous concept of ‘Hire a Hero’, which allows you to use in-game points to play as a character you’d otherwise have to buy for 30 seconds – which is just enough time to use their unique power to unlock something.
The Byzantine calculations about which packs represent the best value for money are no doubt being factored into Christmas lists across the country, but for now the Doctor Who Level Pack is the only way to access its hub world. For although there is a Cyberman and Dalek Fun Pack it’s not out until January 22. Although the bottom line here is that the Doctor Who Level Pack is great, and if you have even a passing love for the good Doctor it’s probably the most affectionate homage to the series you’ll ever get as a video game. It should be pointed out first of all that each of these themes are in the main game as well, including a Doctor Who level. But buying the Level Pack is the only way to play as The Doctor, or use K-9 and the TARDIS. And before you ask which Doctor the answer is all of them. Each one of the 13 Doctors, including John Hurt’s War Doctor, is in the game as their own minifgure, complete with dialogue from the show, their own unique TARDIS interior (even the Jules Verne one from Paul McGann’s TV movie), and their own era appropriate version of the theme tune.
When you die you can chose to regenerate as the next one in line, and many have heir own unique props such as Patrick Troughton’s recorder or Peter Davidson’s cricket bat. Developer Traveller’s Tales are obviously huge Doctor Who fans and at least two of their previous games have featured unofficial cameos of the TARDIS, as well as a Weeping Angel in Lego Batman 3. But here they’ve been able to go all out, with references and characters from the show’s entire 52 year history. What makes the level itself unusual is that using the TARDIS vehicle you can actually travel to the same areas at different points in history, which is used for a couple of neat puzzles involving the passage of time. To do this the TARDIS has to park on special plinths, which are actually dotted around in other levels of the parent game and give access to some surprise homages to other TV franchises not in the rest of the game (we’re trying not to spoil anything). The downside to all this is that there isn’t really any story – just a sequence of largely unconnected scenes that end with the Daleks being defeated, again.
The Doctor Who level in the main game was like that too though, and like all the Level Pack levels there’s a lot of reused assets and backdrops between the two. What sells the Doctor Who Level Pack though is the hub world, which is gloriously indulgent in terms of its fan service. It’s a series of connected worlds that include two time zones for London, as well as Mars, the Dalek homeworld, and others. Each has the usual range of mini-quests and secrets, most of which are based around recreations of famous episodes – from the first Silurian episode of Nu-Who to 1967 classic Tomb of the Cybermen. The hub also features voiceovers from Michelle Gomez as Missy, who isn’t in the story levels, as well as Jenna Coleman, Peter Capaldi, and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks and Cybermen. Whether we’ll ever get a standalone Lego Doctor Who is unclear – the series probably isn’t quite popular enough abroad to justify that yet – but this will do very well in the meantime. Now you get the gist of it we can be briefer with these other Level Packs, since they all work in the same basic way.
The Simpsons though is one of the weaker ones, because as you may have noticed from the main game none of the real actors provide voiceovers. There are a few hazily recorded samples from the show but main characters Bart, Lisa, and Marge don’t say a word. We assume that’s the main reason why the level is based on the episode The Mysterious Voyage of Homer, which we can’t say was ever one of our favourites. It’s the one where Homer eats a dangerously hot chilli pepper and has a hallucinogenic trip, which for the purposes of the level means no other Simpsons characters for the second and third act and lots of weird camera effects for Traveller’s Tales to play around with. There are no particularly interesting puzzles though and the whole experience is just slightly dull. Although it does mean Johnny Cash gets to be in a Lego game, albeit voicing a coyote. The hub world is more fun, but again the lack of voiceovers, and the fact that a lot of it was visible in the main game’s level, means some of the impact is lost.
Especially as iconic locations like Moe’s Tavern and the church aren’t included. The vehicles are useful though, as Homer’s Car can be rebuilt as both a boat and a submarine and the exploding television can blow up silver, and later gold, objects. Homer is also the only character we’re aware of that can grow to giant form (because he gets angry) and smash down walls. Which is handy but still doesn’t make the level or hub particularly interesting. Surprisingly, Back to the Future does have all the proper voiceovers, with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd both reprising their roles. The exclusive level though is extremely disappointing, in that trying to adapt the movie it manages to leave out the entire plot. You get a very close recreation of events right up to Marty arriving in 1955, after which it immediately skips ahead to the finale with the town hall clock tower. It’s easily the worst of the exclusive levels but thankfully the hub world is one of the best.
It starts off in Hill Valley in 1985 (complete with Huey Lewis and the News warbling away) and allows you to travel back in time to the Wild West and forward to the far flung future of 2015. As such, most of the quests involve doing something in a previous time that then affects another, such as watering a bud in the past so it becomes a tree in the future. It’s a neat trick, but the fact that a Fun Pack featuring Doc Brown and his time-travelling train will be released in January means that’s probably the better option, because neither the DeLorean, hoverboard, or Marty himself are that useful outside of the Level Pack. Arguably the most peculiar inclusion in Lego Dimensions is Valve’s 2011 first person puzzle classic, which we’re going to assume most kids have never heard of. Apparently Traveller’s Tales are big fans though, which you can tell as the level in the main game is one of the longest and most complex. But as with Doctor Who you never got to play as the main character – unless you buy this Level Pack.
Of course Chell never speaks, but GLaDOS most certainly does and has some wickedly funny lines that are amusingly cutting despite the child-friendly atmosphere. She’s still voiced by Ellen McLain, and they’ve even got Stephen Merhcant and J.K. Simmons back to play Wheatley and Cave Johnson. (The level is vaguely implied to take place after the events of the real game.) Playing as Chell means that you actually get to use a portal gun – and the paint-like gel – and although the puzzles are simplified from the real game there’s still a few that gave us pause for thought. As such it’s a great introduction to Portal 2 and its characters, and a fun novelty for existing fans. Although simply owning a real Lego Chell and companion cube will probably be attraction enough for them. But once again the hub world is excellent, and filled with more complex puzzles than any of the others we’ve played. There’s also lots more dialogue from Stephen Merchant and co., making the whole thing a surprisingly authentic and enjoyable homage to one of gaming’s greats.