I knew I had to open a door or smash some legos to build a trampoline but tasks like these took me ten to fifteen minutes longer than they should have because I couldn’t find what I needed to do. Unfortunately, the challenges I found myself encountering in Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 weren’t in the Stan Lee I was trying to find or the next mini-kit on my list, but rather, simply moving forward in the level. Usually, these challenges are welcomed and keep the game feeling fresh. While many might refer to the Lego games as children’s games, or at least kid-friendly, they generally come with some challenges, especially when diving into the side content such as finding the collectibles. While slinging through the levels, Spider-Man spits joke after joke and unlike my experiences with other Spider-Man iterations, I just couldn’t bring myself to laugh. This issue is highlighted by the game’s use of one of Marvel’s funniest characters, Spider-Man, acts as one of the main protagonists, a character you’ll find yourself using quite often. Occasionally, I snickered under my breath but for the most part, I was left cringing at a joke that failed to land. I always caught the joke but rarely actually laughed. One of the best features of a TT Lego game is the humor and sadly, this game’s jokes fall flat more often than not. It’s interesting and explains the reason Captain Avalon and Star-Lord fight beside each other, but as far as brevity goes, it’s more shallow than something like the storyline we received in Lego Marvel’s Avengers. The story will take you through these various neighborhoods, controlling the characters found within, collecting whatever MacGuffin is presented. By using fragmented shards from various worlds, he’s able to create the mashup neighborhoods that together form Chronopolis. How does the game manage to bring so many characters into the fold? While a large number of them don’t find their way into the main story, you’ll still encounter and play as quite a few superheroes, and that’s in part thanks to Kang’s conquering. While some characters only have a few skins, others have far more, such as Iron Man who has nine different skins to obtain. Still though, with 191 characters, making a team that feels fresh wasn’t too difficult, and that’s without taking each character’s skin possibilities into account. Trading out Iron Man for Captain Marvel is essentially changing the character models skin in that their powers are nearly identical. While you can trade out Iron Man and change it up with someone else, there are many characters who beyond aesthetics, might as well be the same. With far more characters than the other Lego Marvel games–this one boasts an impressive 191–each mission can at least look fresh, although it might not feel the same. If that’s not enough, after completing the story, you’re free to play through the story missions using any mish-mash of characters you want, including your customizable character creations. Each level has 10 hidden minikits, a Stan Lee that needs saving, a True Believer bar and one trainer/character card. TT Games, Lego Marvel Superheroes 2Īs with previous Lego games, this one comes packed with plenty to do in each mission if you’re looking to stray from the beaten path. As you traverse Chronopolis with multiple Marvel team-ups, you’ll make your way through the wild west, Hydra HQ, Sakaar, Lemuria and even Ancient Egypt, among many more Marvel worlds. While not near as fun to play around in as Lego Marvel’s Avengers’ Manhattan, Chronopolis allows for a central hub that has Asgard next door to Manhattan or Medieval England next to Wakanda. Kang plays out like your standard villain who wants to rule the universe and he’ll do anything he must to make it happen.įar more interesting than Kang is the mashup metropolis he creates, known as Chronopolis, which acts as your hub as you make your way through the game’s 20 missions. He plays a much larger role than 2013’s Lego Marvel Superheroes’ Galactus making multiple appearances throughout the game’s 12 hour campaign. Kang is a time-travelling, civilization-destroying maniac bend on conquering every city, world and universe in sight and he does so by ripping apart realities and warping time streams. Digging deep into the treasure chests of Marvel’s history, you’ll run into characters you’ve never heard of, including the game’s big bad, Kang. If your primary interest in Marvel takes place on the silver screen, many of the characters and locales will be new. Like Lego Marvel Super Heroes, and even Lego Marvel’s Avengers, you’ll be taking on the roles of countless Marvel characters as you build, bash, smash and collect your way through settings you’ve seen on the big screen or within the pages of your favorite comic book. If you’ve played a Lego video game, you know exactly what you’re getting into, if have not do it you can play here.
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