April Edition Live Magazine - April 2014 Issue. | Page 74

review

The LEGO Movie: The Video Game
I’ve been a fan of the LEGO games
after playing a demo of LEGO Batman to death on my PS3. Since
then, the following instalments have
always provided me with hours of fun
and laughs and bought back childhood memories of playing with buckets and buckets of LEGO bricks.
The LEGO Movie: The Videogame
takes the best of the newly released
movie (The LEGO Movie) and melds
into the game. The game re-enacts
the movie as an interactive movie
‘spoiler’ so to speak. Many film to
game adaptations always seem to
miss the mark, however TT Games
have managed to cohesively meld
the two together providing a fun and
amusing experience for the player.
The game does not feature ‘scene
for scene’ from it’s film counterpart.
A smart move by both TT Games
and Warner Bros./Roadshow Films

chosen as the ‘one’ in a prophecy
to save the LEGO world from Lord
Business and his intention to unleash the ‘Kragel’ - a super weapon.
As with the movie, The LEGO Movie:
The Videogame has a star studded
cast of voice actors. Chris Pratt as
Emmett, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman and
Charlie Day who featured as the
character voices in the film, are also
featured in the game.
If you have played the previous
LEGO games, you will be familiar
with the gameplay - fight the enemy,
collect the in-game currency blocks,
solve puzzles assembling vehicle
and equipment etc.
Co-op game play (not available online) again features heavily in this

tem of sorts as to what character
you will need to use to complete the
task. With over 90 playable characters in the game such as Batman
and Green Lantern, when required
to switch characters, its as easy as
a few simple button clicks to switch
between the characters to complete
certain takes on each level.
Some of the tasks that Emmett is
required to carry out (such as on the
building site) can get a little monotonous and repetitive after a while.
At times they feel almost unnecessary and just button mashing, on
the plus side they do allow for the
chance to find exciting unlockables
and more importantly, the chance to
unlock further characters.
This game also features a new
form of characters which is dependant on the type of character you

“..THE LEGO MOVIE: THE VIDEOGAME WILL ENSURE HOURS OF
ENTERTAINMENT FOR A YOUNGER AUDIENCE.”
to leave some thought to the imagination.
Delivering some hilarious and amusing scenarios, you play the main man
and protagonist, Emmett. Emmett
Brickowski is a little LEGO man with
big LEGO dreams who has been

game like the previous titles. However, if playing alone, having to swap
between a few different characters
to complete the level can get very
frustrating trying to remember who
is the best LEGO man (or woman)
for the task at hand. Cracked walls
and glittery walls act as an alert sys-

play - Regular Builder and Master
Builders. Regular Builders, such
as protagonist Emmett are unable
to build or create objects out of the
piles of LEGO scatter around the
level without having found the correct instruction pages. I found this
type of character a lot of fun to play