LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Playstation 3
2LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Playstation 3
- Explore all of Gotham City in the Batmobile, Batwing, and more!
- Use all-new abilities including flight, heat vision, and super breath.
- For the first time, LEGO has a voice! Talking minifigures enhance an all-new original storyline.
- Master gadgets and suits like Batman’s Electricity Suit and Power Suit, and Robin’s Hazard Cannon.
- Play with friends using drop-in/drop-out co-op play with dynamic split screen.
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes PS3 LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is an Action-Adventure game set within the Batman universe, and filled with LEGO versions of heroes and villains from the Batman comic series, working together/against those from the Justice League comic series. The game is a standalone follow-up to 2008’s Lego Batman, and features an a wealth of heroes and villains, an engrossing storyline, in-game dialog, classic LEGO video game play that includes a co-op support, family-friend
List Price: $ 19.99
Price: $ 10.51
Chad
Hours of Fun,
My son and I have been putting the hours in on this game since we picked it up on Tuesday, and it’s a blast. The voice acting adds to the humor in a way that was missing when all that the characters would say were “mmmm”, “aaaah”, and “tee-hee-hee”. The dialogue is obviously simple since the target audience is young children, but even as a 40 year old adult, I found it to be pretty humorous; especially the Batman to Superman animosity mixed with the Robin to Superman hero worship angle.
The gameplay itself is pretty standard to Tt Lego games and is similar to the rest of the games. Levels seem to be a bit longer than usual which is good. The Gotham City open world is large and contains several side “missions” to collect bad guy characters and bricks, as well as follow ghost studs from story to story similar to Lego Harry Potter. You don’t collect character tokens in this game, but get them through story mode and side fights similar to Lego Indiana Jones 2. Graphics are smooth and colorful. Cut-scenes are hilarious and well programmed.
If it wasn’t for the camera I would have given this game 5 stars. It’s not a huge issue, but is a hindrance sometimes. We did find one area where the camera actually caused an enemy to be hidden by one of our characters during a flight sequence, so we were stuck for quite a few minutes while trying to figure out why the game wasn’t progressing. Other than that, we have made it up to Story Level 11 and haven’t found any bugs or problems so far. However, we haven’t done any free-play yet.
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|PyroDark “Incendiary”
Not Flawless, but still plenty Fun, particularly for DCU fans.,
First to point out what needed improvement, a lot of the same issues that have plagued previous Lego games have STILL returned in this one. Problems like stupid auto camera angles that can make things difficult, random glitches where things don’t trigger as they should, and the complete absence of AI in your sidekick. Flight is also really weird and hard to get used to as well, that would be a new Lego issue. you push forward expecting to float forward and instead go way too fast past what your trying to collect. Also, When I fly up in games I expect to pull back on the stick to go up, like in a plane. In this game that counts that as pushing down, and can’t by changed, so I just had to get used to that.
Back to the issue of the sidekick AI, it may be worse in this then in any Lego game. He will just stand there and allow henchmen to run out and punch him to death, and won’t always come to help with switches that require two people to activate. It’s also annoying that when you collect a red/gold brick the game instantly saves, taking away your ability to defend yourself while you get beat to death. Although death never really matters in Lego games, since you just come right back. Lego games aren’t about survival, they are more about the puzzle work.
Which is why it annoyed me a little when a video review I watched referred to Superman’s flying battle as boring becuase he’s invincible. HE’S SUPERMAN, If you want to constantly die then you can easily switch to Batman within the same battle, flying alongside in a helicopter, he’s just human so he’ll die as many times as you want.
So, I guess there’s going to be people disappointed in this game becuase there is no failure, there is no game over, it’s a cute, light-hearted, puzzle and collect game. If you crave death and loss then Lego is the wrong franchise for you.
My main allure to this was the addition of the whole Justice League as playable. the downside there is, this game has been so specifically weaved together with Batman and Robin’s special suits in mind, that it seems as soon as you turn into Green Lantern or Flash in free play, something pops up that needs a special bat suit. Other characters like Sinestro, and Brainiac are in this as playable (YAY) but don’t really have any weapon or power. There’s also no online, and very little you and a friend can do with the new free roam world via split-screen. So it REALLY IS Lego Batman, not Lego Justice League, like I wanted it to be. However IF you take it like it is, as a Batman themed Lego game starring other members of the DCU, then it is quite enjoyable. The puzzles are not too challenging becuase this is a Lego game made for all ages. I don’t mind NOT getting completely confused and lost in one place for hours, though there were a few times when I got stuck for a few minutes becuase I just forgot about one of the abilities of one of my available characters. I also don’t expect the replay on this to be eternal, I powered through the story in about 8 hours, some of that time with friends. If you have more of a life and pace yourself with this game it could stand to last a good amount of time. Extreme Batman fans should all like this at least for a few play-throughs, though I hope Lego makes a more overall Justice League game in the future.
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