LEGO has served us well over the last few years with Star Wars, Indiana Jones and now Batman. Both my son and I have played all of them to death and really enjoyed them. I like them because they are reasonably entertaining and my son loved playing all the different characters, including those stupid ones that don’t jump high or carry weapons.
I know a lot of people don’t think that the games released after Star Wars have lived up to the mark. Personally I think that LEGO Batman takes the series to another level. It seemed to have slightly more complex puzzles and the game as a whole was more challenging than previous iterations. An excellent addition to the game were the suits that you could dress Batman and Robin/Nightwing in, allowing them to perform new tasks. The characters felt more powerful with the cartoon-esque punch and ‘fly through the air’ animations. The only thing missing was the ‘KAPOW’ and ‘ZZONK’ graphics during fight scenes.
Of course there is the million dollar question, where will Traveller’s Tales go next in the LEGO series? Apparently LEGO has infinite possibilities so the next one could be anyone’s guess. Personally I would love to see LEGO Justice League and I have heard other people talking about LEGO Spiderman. There’s the whole Marvel Universe and 2000 A.D. collection to build on. What about LEGO The Village People?
Now that Warner Brothers Interactive own Travellers Tales there are plenty of characters and story lines to pull on, so hopefully the future will be strong for LEGO games if it continues. TT Games are apparently taking a well deserved break from this series for now but reckon they will return in the future. For me, hopefully that’s the case.
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On another note, the LEGO company are developing an MMO called LEGO Universe, where the players will be able to customise their own characters, explore, quest and of course socialise. More details will be available in 2009. Another WOW killer in my opinion.
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