Crisis of Infinite Bricks | Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes Review

<p>I’m not a Lego video game veteran by any means&period; My only previous experience is with a Star Wars game that came with my console&period; It was fun and cute but wasn’t very deep&period; My interest in Lego Batman 2&colon; DC Superheroes was the availability of more than just Batman and Robin as playable characters&period; I mean how often can one play as Aquaman &lpar;clearly the greatest Justice Leaguer of all time&rpar; in a video game&quest; Well now you can and have a ton of fun doing it as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;lego-batman-2-dc-superheroes-review&sol;lego-batman-2-3&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-19595"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19595" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;lego-batman-2-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story in Lego Batman 2 isn’t anything special and that’s not surprising since the main target demographic is children&period; Lex Luthor loses a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Man of the Year” award to Bruce Wayne and takes it personally&period; Being the old curmudgeon that he is&comma; Lex ends up teaming with Joker to take over the world starting with winning an election&period; One thing leads to another and Bats needs help from the Justice League in order to stop them&period; Not the most original story or the longest but it serves it purpose and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t drag on&period; The addition of voice over dialogue helps bring humor and personality to the story and everyone does a good job of voicing their respective characters especially Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor&comma; a role he embodied during the Justice League animated series&period; The characters are varied with everyone from Green Lantern to&comma; my personal favorite character of all time&comma; The Flash&period; As you progress through the game more characters become available to unlock which includes villains like Captain Boomerang and Bane&period; Gold Bricks are required to unlock heroes&comma; which can become a grind if you want to play as The Huntress or Batgirl as it takes hundreds of gold bricks to unlock some heroes&period; There’s an open world for you to explore between missions and at the end of the game&comma; which is a new addition to the franchise&period; After each mission you can go back and play it in Free Play mode with whatever characters you’ve unlocked making each playthrough a different &lpar;albeit slightly&rpar; experience&period; I’m still running around the streets of Gotham trying to find Gold Bricks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;lego-batman-2-dc-superheroes-review&sol;legobatman2flash&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-19596"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19596" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;legobatman2flash-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game is much more fun with a friend&period; Playing with a buddy of mine was much more satisfying than with the computer for a number of reasons with the most important being that the AI is kind of dumb and lazy&period; When the computer is controlling your partner&comma; it kind of just stands there and takes a beating &lpar;which could be the function of Robin in the whole Batman and Robin relationship&rpar;&period; It’s not a big deal when the computer is using Wonder Woman or Superman since they’re neigh indestructible&comma; but other characters just fall to pieces&period; Literally&period; Controls are tight for the most part&period; Sometimes the camera isn’t as free as I would’ve liked it to be which could be difficult in a platformer because it leads to miss jumps that can be frustrating&period; The other issue I had was with the flying&period; Sometimes I just want to float a bit higher or descend just a tad and I end up dropping down or flying way too far from my target&period; The combat isn’t a huge aspect of the game and there’s no penalty for death besides loss of coins but the puzzles were challenging enough to keep you guessing at times&period; One or two puzzles actually stumped me&comma; which made me want to give up gaming altogether since these puzzles were designed for a child to solve&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;lego-batman-2-dc-superheroes-review&sol;aquaman638&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-19597"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19597" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;aquaman638-300x168&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lego Batman 2 can be summed up in one word&colon; fun&period; The game is a blast to play with a friend and even alone it is still remained a rewarding experience not just for kids but for adults too&period; There are some genuine laugh out loud moments in the story which should keep gamers interested&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a huge open world and the amount of gold bricks it takes to unlock Aquaman should keep you coming back after you’ve done the story&period; If this is the evolution of the franchise count me in for me&period; Oh did I mention you get to play as Aquaman&quest; How awesome is that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;