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The Dragon: Rex Fury is initially set up as being the Big Bad, but he is actually this trope to Blackwell. Drives Like Crazy: Frank Honey is not particularly skilled at driving, even crashing the department's brand-new truck. However, he does gain competence when he and Chase need to deliver forcefield generators to prevent everyone from dying of the exhaust from Blackwell's rocket. Mind you, he still has no respect for traffic lanes, but he makes it there quickly and in one piece, which is a step up. Getting Crap Past the Radar: Several of these involve Frank Honey, sometimes due to his innocence, sometimes due to the circumstances around him. Frank: Chase: Frank: OOOOOOOH, that explains why it didn't like that apple I tried to feed it. Frank: Farmer Hayes: Frank: Farmer Hayes: Frank: Farmer Hayes: Frank: Farmer Hayes: Frank: Karma Houdini: Vinnie Poppalardo is actually a pretty nice guy, at least by the standards of mafia men, but the fact of the matter is he runs the biggest mafia in Lego City and orchestrates several high-profile robberies.
Despite this, he is never arrested in the game even though Chase would have more than enough evidence against him from his time undercover. To a more minor extent, Forest Blackwell is not arrested (even though he's lost in space), and makes it clear he won't stop at getting vengeance on Chase McCain and Lego City. Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Several minor characters are this as seen in the shout-outs section below, such as "Blue" being a stand-in for Red from The Shawshank Redemption, or "Studsky and Clutch", a character named "Harry" who looks exactly like Dirty Harry and a nameless minifigure (listed as DaMumbo when you unlock it) who looks just like Columbo. Vinnie Pappalardo is basically Joe Pesci's character from Goodfellas.Heywood: Uh, are you free, man? No, I am not Freeman. His lawyers might be watchin'. Various cops skins include "Cacey and Lagney", "Bricket", and "Horace Cone". Literal-Minded: Several characters at points, but the game's shining example of the trope is Frank Honey.
Chase: Frank, I'm getting closer to Rex. Frank: Oh, that's sweet, do you liiiike Rex?Chase: Moving Buildings: Blackwell Tower, which turns out to function like a space rocket. No OSHA Compliance: Fuse boxes throughout the city are electrified, causing a zap to all characters except construction workers, who may repair them. Sometimes these boxes just stop certain devices from working, and sometimes they electrify floors, preventing entry. Lampshaded by Chase in .Chase: Did hire Frank to wire this place? Not the Fall That Kills You: Played with. During the Blue Bell Mines level Chase performs a very impressive free fall for quite some time. A soft collision in to wood only lightly harms him at best but he will die if he collides with something solid. Lampshaded by Chase in-game.Chase: WHY WAS THAT EVEN THERE?! Strange Minds Think Alike: When Chase teams up with Studsky and Clutch to rescue Natalia, the two speculate on how she might be getting tortured, with ridiculous ideas like giving her brain freeze from ice cream and using Tickle Torture.
When Natalia's rescued, she's in pain and says they fed her ice cream. Tempting Fate:Chase: Parrot:Chase: AHHH! Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the two mafias are harmless, the game's Big Bad, Forest Blackwell, shows malicious disregard for human life and it is put in no uncertain terms that if Chase wasn't around to foil his plans, many people would end up dead.QuestionWhat games, like Kerbal Space Program WERE coming to the Wii-U? NintendoSwitch)submitted by Trying to think of smaller games that were announced for Wii-U at one point or another. Kerbal Space Program was at one point, I could imagine it being redirected to the Switch. (Unless they launched it and I never noticed.) π Rendered by PID 95993 on app-790 at 2017-03-01 13:30:37.489968+00:00 running 8d38bc1 country code: SG.The biggest Wii U exclusive of the year so far sees Lego striking out for itself, with no movie tie-ins but instead a giant GTA style open world. The biggest question we have about the Wii U (and PS Vita) is what Nintendo’s best case scenario was.
It’s now gone essentially four months without a major new release and yet the only prominent game to actually be delayed is Pikmin 3. So the implication is that they thought New Super Mario Bros. U and ZombiU would see them through all the way to the summer. There is Lego City Undercover though, which has never been delayed and is by default the biggest post-launch game so far. It’s a good game, but the unpalatable truth is that all the worst bits are down to it being on the Wii U. Although it’s by the same developer as ever – British studio TT Games – this is not a movie licence. Instead it’s based on Lego’s own City line of unbranded toys, their long-serving range of police, fire, and construction based vehicles and buildings. The gameplay is still largely the same underneath but the open world environment is larger than ever and so bears immediate comparison with Grand Theft Auto. Oddly though Grand Theft Auto is never referenced directly, even though a stream of adult-rated movies are, from The Matrix and Shawshank Redemption to Goodfellas and The Shining.
In turn the Lego City police department is staffed by obvious parodies of everyone from Columbo and Dirty Harry to Cagney & Lacey and Holmes & Watson. The hero of the game is likeable supercop Chase McCain, who has the indestructibility of John McClane and the voice of Zapp Brannigan. The game lacks a strong villain though, for although Rex Fury is repeatedly referenced as a mastermind of crime his screen time is miniscule. Even so the script throughout is superb, and this is one of the funniest video games we’ve ever played. It may not be as subversive as Portal but the endless series of gentle puns and absurdities had us chortling away just the same. ‘I should have joined the army’, complains a hapless mine worker. ‘Then I could’ve been a major not a miner’. ‘How’s the building going? asks one construction worker. ‘The first floor was easy, but the rest – that’s a whole other storey’. The jokes are about as edgy as a snooker ball but we found them all highly amusing, especially the Arnold Schwarzenegger stand-in who manages to mention one of his movies or film quotes in every single sentence.
The cast is immediately likeable then, but we can’t help but feel a beat has been missed when it comes to the city. It’s extremely well designed, and far more interactive than other open world games, but the building themselves are not made of Lego; they’re just ordinary real world objects. As a result the city can look a bit bland at times, and it’s really only the vehicles and characters that maintain the Lego theme. There are far greater problems with the visuals than the generic art design though, and we have to say that on a technical level this is a deeply unimpressive game. The frame rate seems constantly on the edge of disaster and there’s so much pop-in that smaller objects just teleport into existence in the middle distance. The textures are very low resolution and the shadows are distractingly low tech. On top of this the game has the worst load times since the 1980s. It takes nearly three minutes from inserting to the disc to actually starting to play, and accessing Lego City takes well over a minute from exiting the police station hub or a mission.
No one’s going to admit it but we assume the difficulties the Wii U has running the game are the reason that there is no multiplayer option of any kind. TT Games claim that this was a design issue, because of the more complex open world, but considering how the game struggles with one person it’d never be able to display two at a time even if it wanted to. And yet little attempt is made to compensate for this, and the GamePad is used only sparingly. Most of the time it just displays a map, or occasionally a wireframe first person view of your surroundings – used to scan for hidden objects and people. Because of this there’s no off-TV mode, which is very silly as Lego games are perfect for quick bursts when someone else is on the telly or your mind is only half on the job. Maybe TT Games didn’t have time to get to grips with the Wii U properly but as far as technical showcases go this paints the Wii U in a very poor light. And it’s a shame because the game itself is very good, with an absolute mountain of content that will last even the most obsessed player for several weeks.
There are 290 different characters to unlock and play as and 110 different vehicles, many of which are based on real Lego sets. This includes the first several series of mini figures (the collectible ones in a bag you get at newsagents). That means you can not only play as any of the named characters but everything ranging from a clockwork robot to a zombie. Following the undercover motif of the title McCain spends most of the game pretending to be a villain, but has access to a range of different disguises that all imbue him with different abilities. His police uniform comes equipped with grapnel gun, a robber disguise has a crowbar, the fireman has an axe and fire extinguisher, and the construction worker is able to fix electronics and stop for a coffee break (which rewards you with a golden brick if you can find the pot). You can switch between disguises whenever you want, either in the open world or within a mission. The latter function more or less the same as the movie games, with the usual fixed camera angle but obviously no co-op.
They tend to be a little shorter too, and with more emphasis on puzzles and exploration, which goes for the game as a whole. There is combat but it’s so simplified, even after you get extra training at a kung fu school, that it amounts to little more than a one-button quick time event sequence. There are no guns at all (‘Stop or I will… keep running after you!’ shouts McCain as he pursues a perp), despite them appearing in most of the movie games. But given the vast volume of collectibles, and the excitement of discovery and exploration offered by the open world it doesn’t actually matter. The controls for many of the cars could do with tightening up, but they’re still a lot more fun to drive than in Grand Theft Auto. Although not for the first time we wonder why on earth the GamePad (and Pro Controller) don’t have analogue triggers. There are no side quests in the traditional sense but each area of the city is awash with secrets and hidden extras. As a result you can barely move a metre in the game world without coming across something new to do or collect.
From arresting gangs of vandals to watering plants and rescuing cats the game world is stuffed to bursting with entertaining distractions. In design terms this is as good as anything TT Games has come up with, but on a technical level it seems held back by either the Wii U itself or the developer’s inexperience working with it. We don’t know which it is but as it is this is not the game to save Nintendo’s home console. It’s likely to have a much more positive influence on future Lego games though, and it even has a thing or two to teach Grand Theft Auto. In Short: It’s a not a very good advert for the Wii U but this is still a hugely entertaining open world game, with one of the funniest video game scripts ever. Pros: Well-designed open world is teeming with secrets and genuinely worthwhile collectables. Consistently amusing dialogue and a great variety of vehicles. Cons: Low tech visuals, atrocious load times, and poor use of the GamePad – with no off-TV option.