There’s an awful lot of fun to be had here. More than any previous Lego game, Lego City: Undercover just begs you to explore. Cars can be stopped with a whistle and cheerfully hijacked, and extended play reveals a network of drop-off points, train stations, ferries and helipads, albeit ones you might need to build first. Lego City is big, with its own neighbourhoods and areas of forest, hills and mountain, and it’s packed with side-quests, hidden areas and stunt opportunities. Yet it’s all now bound up by a large open-world setting, and one which makes Lego Batman 2’s Gotham look like a toe in the water. We’re not sure how many different costumes, kits and extras there are in Lego City, but we’re talking hundreds rather than dozens. Meanwhile, the emphasis on collecting anything and everything you can get your hands on remains as strong as ever. What you might call the levels of the game – its missions – feature a certain amount of GTA-style driving, but mostly focus on the kind of platforming, puzzle-solving and combat you expect from a Lego game.
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There are studs to collect, objects to be battered and optional tasks to be completed that unlock gold bricks, while a series of disguises take the place of the traditional characters to swap between. Lego City borrows tropes from the mainstream Lego series. Along the way, he’s going to take out Lego City’s trash, even if it means wrecking the whole city, one Lego brick at a time. MCain is back in Lego City after a long absence, on the trail of an old arch-enemy and out to recapture the heart of an old flame. He’s your classic loose cannon cop on a mission a TV-censored John McClane with a wardrobe of disguises and a plastic wig. You might not recognise the game’s main hero, Chase McCain, but you’ll certainly recognise his type.
The more you know and love all these things, the more you’ll love Lego City: Undercover. And when it’s not riffing on Hollywood classics and summer blockbusters, it’s smirking at games, with a structure based knowingly on Grand Theft Auto and gameplay that borrows from platform games, Metroid-style arcade adventures and the whole open-world crime genre.
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Instead, it gleefully grabs inspiration from almost every dumb cop action movie you’ve ever seen, not to mention gangster movies, kung-fu movies, prison movies and detective flicks. Well, it might not be an adaptation of any one movie or movie series, but that doesn’t mean Lego City: Undercover has left the cinema behind. Based purely on the Lego City playsets, with no Batman, no Star Wars, no Harry Potter, no Lord of the Rings to back it up, how could Lego City: Undercover work? Not only is this a Wii U exclusive – hardly a no-lose recipe for raking in the cash – but it’s the first Lego game outside the hand-held Battle series that doesn’t rely on a big-name movie franchise to prop it up. If TT Games’ first Lego title for Wii U should only be lauded for one thing, it’s taking risks. Indeed, LEGO City Undercover may be all the reason some LEGO lovers need to pick up Nintendo's new console.Available on PS4, Xbox One, Wii U and Nintendo Switch Introduction Plus, a few technical hitches - including some painfully long loading screens and unpredictable load locations after saving and exiting the game (you may find yourself restarting inside or outside of your mission) - prove a bit of a nuisance. Only beefs? No multiplayer limits the appeal for families that have grown accustomed to playing LEGO games together on the couch. Players consult the screen frequently to view maps and routes, receive incoming calls from non-player characters, scan areas for criminals and secret bricks, and covertly listen to crooks' conversations. Plus, it makes terrific use of the Wii U gamepad. This vast world of LEGO cars, buildings, and people is a pleasure to explore - especially for avid LEGO collectors, who are sure to recognize several of their own building sets in virtual form.
There may not be any Jedi, young wizards, or DC Superheroes lurking in the streets of TT Games' latest building block adventure, but it might be better for it.
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