#LEGO BATMAN 2 WALKTHROUGH PS3 SERIES#
The freedom to fly around any part of the beautifully rendered LEGO version of Gotham City (this is the first game in the series that features a completely open HUB world) is itself worth the price tag, but that's only a small portion of the entire Superman experience. This is Superman done right, or at least done right for a LEGO game. Superman, unlike any playable character in this or past games, is exactly how he is portrayed in comics or movies: he's indestructible (his health is indicated by four silver hearts), can fly, has heat vision, freeze breath, and can build faster than Batman and Robin combined.
Other members of the Justice League like Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and The Flash don't come into play until way late in the game, but their presence freshens things up and makes for a really solid finish.ĭon't misunderstand, though, the inclusion of Superman is an inspired one, and makes for some of the best callbacks for a Traveller's Tales LEGO fan out there. Not only is the last son of Krypton a major selling point for the game but he replaces Robin during about 50% of the game's 15 story missions, and on occasion joins the dynamic duo. While the game itself is titled LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, it would be more appropriately labeled Batman & Superman. In the early goings the game is essentially a more polished version of the first LEGO Batman with a few new additions, namely the inclusion of special suits for Batman and Robin, but all that changes pretty fast.
Batman and Robin once again have access to their batarangs and grapple hooks for some added flourish and traversal - but seasoned LEGO veterans will know the drill and will love every bit of the tried and true gameplay. Gameplay itself is nothing new, players will methodically smash every object, LEGO or otherwise, in the hopes of it dispensing with its gold, silver, or purple-colored riches. It's nothing special, and is actually a standard superhero plot, but the ways in which the game pokes fun at its stereotypical nature makes the story enjoyable. The story itself revolves around Lex Luthor teaming up with Joker to enact some dastardly plan, and Batman needing to rely not just on Robin, but the entire Justice League for help. It felt like sacrilege for Traveller's Tales to abandon their trademark cut scene format, but after experiencing Vicki Vale's witty deconstructions of in-game events it's hard to imagine a LEGO game without voice acting. While past games have used a Chaplin-esque series of pantomimed cut scenes to create a chuckle here or there, this game relies on its voice acting and writing to generate the laughs, and it succeeds. While previous games like LEGO Harry Potter and Indiana Jones have made subtle advances, LEGO Batman 2 hopes to take the franchise in a new direction, while still remaining faithful to its core ideas.įrom the outset LEGO Batman 2 tries to differentiate itself from past games by making subtle changes to the tried-and-tested formula, starting most prominently with the inclusion of voice acting. It might sound harsh to say the developer can't make time for evolution of gameplay mechanics or experimentation, but when each game property has been bigger than the next there hasn't been any need to change up the formula.īut eventually there's going to be a tipping point, when a developer needs to evolve or die - and that tipping point is LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes. For better or for worse Traveller's Tales' LEGO franchise, which takes popular properties like Star Wars and shrinks them down to brick form, has been running like a well-oiled machine.
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