When I was kid, I use to love playing with Lego. Every day I would come home from school, and build up some sort of model, or enjoy my lego collection (I use to have a lot of the Harry Potter lego sets) and could spend hours and hours and hours on it. Nearly 15 years later, Lego is still something I enjoy, in whatever form it comes in. Building it physically, or playing it through a different medium. So, when Lego`s latest game Marvel Avengers was released for the gaming community, I couldn’t help myself. Does the latest one assemble to be one of the great Lego games? Or does it assemble to be a flop?
Over the last 2 years, I have found myself getting into many more Lego games on the Xbox One and 360. Lego Pirates of the Carribean, Lego Batman, Lego Star Wars, most recently in the last few months, Lego Jurassic world, and now Marvel Avengers, there is something about them that I find extremely fun and something that I tend to get an awful lot out of. Lego Marvel Avengers is the 64th commercial game that Lego have released across the near 19 years they have been releasing games for the Lego community.
So, Lego Marvel Avengers. For those of you who are fans of the Marvel Avengers characters, comics and stories, Lego Marvel Avengers focuses on the stories of the Avengers, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Over the course of the countless number of hours you will find yourself indulged into the game, you will play across a range of your comic heroes, including Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow just to name a few.
Straight from the start of the game, we are thrown into a cut-scene where a battle has begun. Guns firing, little Lego men shooting, it`s the start of a Lego game. We then see our main 4 characters, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Captain America flying through the air in a slow-mo to start the game off. From there, it is now a case of taking down the opposition to get through to the next stage of the level. Of course, there is a lot more to do before we can even think about doing that. There`s collectibles and mini-kits, special colour bricks to collect, and of course, the one part of any Lego game that always takes up a lot of my time. Collecting those yellow coins to rack the points up. Anything that is smash able in this game (and that`s a lot) you will collect coins from. And there is so much of it to do. Doing the coins aside from the missions are something that will keep you indulged for hours and hours, trying to collect as many as you can. I know in the past there have been achievements for collecting lots of coins, (in Jurassic World, I know there was one for collecting 65,000,000 coins) but although there isn’t any achievement to be gained in Lego Marvel Avengers, it is still very extremely fun going around smashing things to get those coins. It`s something that would easily keep your kids amused and entertained for many an hour.
You play through the storyline that once you have completed a mission, you will unlock the free-play option for that mission. This means that you`ll be able to go back to that mission to collect anything that you have missed like mini-kits, collect the special coloured bricks, or to go on another coin collecting spree.
One thing that`s apparent in this game, and carries on the tradition of the Lego games, is that they are reliant on puzzle solving throughout the game. Many a time you will find yourself coming across an area that will require you to think the way through, or to work out the puzzle to getting through to the next part of the level. For me, I love it, as it offers another dimension to the Lego games, rather than just walking through the level, collecting coins and collectibles, and carrying on like that throughout the entire game. For me, I like to be challenged in games, and Lego is a game that will make you think what you need to do to get through to the next stage. For several different puzzles you will need to use several characters’ skills and weaponry in order to aid you defeating the opponent or to help you move to the next stage. Of course, I mention a lot of smashing up things and collecting coins. You`ll need to smash up objects and structures in order to help you build.
Building again as with any Lego game is apparent and you`ll need to use this to your advantage. Anything you build within this game will aid as something to you. Whether that`s a weapon, or whether that`s something that will help you pass to the next stage, you will be required to build, build, build. Build and destroy.
Lego Marvel Avengers carries on the tradition of the Lego games, and cross binds it with the DC comics and Marvel Characters, and for me, is a great addition to the Lego series. Perhaps similar to the last Marvel Super Heroes that they released not too long, Marvel Avengers is certainly one that that will keep you and the kids entertained for a long period of time. And with the next Lego game due out in June (Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens), It`s a year that Lego will prove to be prominent and a success with both the Gamer and fans of the Lego/Marvel series.
A huge thank you to XCN for supplying us with a Review copy of Lego Marvel Avengers.
