Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 Review

TT Games, Lego Marvel Superheroes 2

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">When I watch a new Marvel movie&comma; I usually leave the theater with excitement at what comes next and an appreciation for a company that’s able to write compelling stories without any of them ever feeling contrived or dry&period; Their movies are fresh&comma; approachable and capable of reinvigorating the universe they’ve established with almost every new release&period; Almost ten years later with 17 movies to boot&comma; I’m always wondering what’s next&comma; knowing they’ve still have so much space to explore and stories to tell&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Ideally&comma; I’d be saying the same about the third entry in a Lego Marvel video game but sadly&comma; I can’t&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">With TT Games’ newest entry in the superhero saga&comma;<&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&comma; I couldn’t help but feel this fruit no longer had any juice to squeeze out of it&period; That’s not necessarily to the game’s detriment&&num;8211&semi;there just isn’t really anywhere left to go from here&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">If you’ve played a Lego video game&comma; you know exactly what you’re getting into&comma; if have not do it you can play here <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;legoventures&period;com&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;legoventures&period;com&sol;<&sol;a> &period; Like <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Lego Marvel Super Heroes<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&comma; and even<&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> Lego Marvel’s Avengers<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&comma; you’ll be taking on the roles of countless Marvel characters as you build&comma; bash&comma; smash and collect your way through settings you’ve seen on the big screen or within the pages of your favorite comic book&period; If your primary interest in Marvel takes place on the silver screen&comma; many of the characters and locales will be new&period; Digging deep into the treasure chests of Marvel’s history&comma; you’ll run into characters you’ve never heard of&comma; including the game’s big bad&comma; Kang&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132241" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132241" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132241 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;01135424&sol;LEGO&lowbar;Marvel&lowbar;Super&lowbar;Heroes&lowbar;2&lowbar;-&lowbar;Kang&lowbar;the&lowbar;Conqueror&lowbar;1507794994&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132241" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">TT Games&comma; Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Kang is a time-travelling&comma; civilization-destroying maniac bend on conquering every city&comma; world and universe in sight and he does so by ripping apart realities and warping time streams&period; He plays a much larger role than 2013’s <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Lego Marvel Superheroes’<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> Galactus making multiple appearances throughout the game’s 12 hour campaign&period; Kang plays out like your standard villain who wants to rule the universe and he’ll do anything he must to make it happen&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Far more interesting than Kang is the mashup metropolis he creates&comma; known as Chronopolis&comma; which acts as your hub as you make your way through the game’s 20 missions&period; While not near as fun to play around in as <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Lego Marvel’s Avengers’<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> Manhattan&comma; Chronopolis allows for a central hub that has Asgard next door to Manhattan or Medieval England next to Wakanda&period; As you traverse Chronopolis with multiple Marvel team-ups&comma; you’ll make your way through the wild west&comma; Hydra HQ&comma; Sakaar&comma; Lemuria and even Ancient Egypt&comma; among many more Marvel worlds&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132239" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132239" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-132239" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;01135322&sol;LEGO&lowbar;Marvel&lowbar;Super&lowbar;Heroes&lowbar;2&lowbar;-&lowbar;Arizona&lowbar;Annie&lowbar;1&lowbar;1507794986&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132239" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">TT Games&comma; Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">As with previous Lego games&comma; this one comes packed with plenty to do in each mission if you’re looking to stray from the beaten path&period; Each level has 10 hidden minikits&comma; a Stan Lee that needs saving&comma; a True Believer bar and one trainer&sol;character card&period; If that’s not enough&comma; after completing the story&comma; you’re free to play through the story missions using any mish-mash of characters you want&comma; including your customizable character creations&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">With far more characters than the other Lego Marvel games&&num;8211&semi;this one boasts an impressive 191&&num;8211&semi;each mission can at least look fresh&comma; although it might not feel the same&period; While you can trade out Iron Man and change it up with someone else&comma; there are many characters who beyond aesthetics&comma; might as well be the same&period; Trading out Iron Man for Captain Marvel is essentially changing the character models skin in that their powers are nearly identical&period; Still though&comma; with 191 characters&comma; making a team that feels fresh wasn’t too difficult&comma; and that’s without taking each character’s skin possibilities into account&period; While some characters only have a few skins&comma; others have far more&comma; such as Iron Man who has nine different skins to obtain&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132242" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132242" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-132242" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;01135458&sol;LEGO&lowbar;Marvel&lowbar;Super&lowbar;Heroes&lowbar;2&lowbar;-&lowbar;Koi&lowbar;Boi&lowbar;Squirrel&lowbar;Girl&lowbar;Chipmunk&lowbar;Hunk&lowbar;1507794994&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132242" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">TT Games&comma; Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">How does the game manage to bring so many characters into the fold&quest; While a large number of them don’t find their way into the main story&comma; you’ll still encounter and play as quite a few superheroes&comma; and that’s in part thanks to Kang’s conquering&period; By using fragmented shards from various worlds&comma; he’s able to create the mashup neighborhoods that together form Chronopolis&period; The story will take you through these various neighborhoods&comma; controlling the characters found within&comma; collecting whatever MacGuffin is presented&period; It’s interesting and explains the reason Captain Avalon and Star-Lord fight beside each other&comma; but as far as brevity goes&comma; it’s more shallow than something like the storyline we received in <em>Lego Marvel’s Avengers&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132238" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132238" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-132238" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;d37x086vserhlm&period;cloudfront&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;01135248&sol;ss&lowbar;424c2077ab25da3f706237e47a2c3e3a719f857a&period;1920x1080&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132238" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">TT Games&comma; Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">One of the best features of a TT Lego game is the humor and sadly&comma; this game’s jokes fall flat more often than not&period; I always caught the joke but rarely actually laughed&period; Occasionally&comma; I snickered under my breath but for the most part&comma; I was left cringing at a joke that failed to land&period; This issue is highlighted by the game’s use of one of Marvel’s funniest characters&comma; Spider-Man&comma; acts as one of the main protagonists&comma; a character you’ll find yourself using quite often&period; While slinging through the levels&comma; Spider-Man spits joke after joke and unlike my experiences with other Spider-Man iterations&comma; I just couldn’t bring myself to laugh&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">While many might refer to the Lego games as children’s games&comma; or at least kid-friendly&comma; they generally come with some challenges&comma; especially when diving into the side content such as finding the collectibles&period; Usually&comma; these challenges are welcomed and keep the game feeling fresh&period; Unfortunately&comma; the challenges I found myself encountering in <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> weren’t in the Stan Lee I was trying to find or the next mini-kit on my list&comma; but rather&comma; simply moving forward in the level&period; 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&period; The legos I was looking for would be hidden behind a corner that I never sought out&&num;8211&semi;I simply paced back and forth through the area until I found something I could interact with&period; My next step in the level always felt obnoxiously hidden or complicated&comma; but never intuitive&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">At its core&comma; <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Lego Marvel Superheroes 2<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> is another TT Lego game&period; Because of that&comma; it’s exciting and filled to the brim with characters&comma; locales&comma; and collectibles sure to keep any player enticed&comma; but that also means that it&&num;8217&semi;s a formula that in no way feels too fresh or too unique&period; Sections of the game might feel like something new&comma; but as a whole&comma; this game fails to go beyond what I’ve come to expect from a Lego video game&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A PS4 Review copy of Lego Marvel Superheroes was provided by TT Games for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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