Written By: Bernard Julius Paje
Title: LEGO CITY Undercover
Developer: TT Fusion
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive
Genre: Action, Adventure
Price: $49.99
Also Available On: Wii U, Switch, XB1, Windows
Back during the early on days of gaming, licensed games based off movies as well as cartoons were released en masse. Most of them were non good, oftentimes exclusively made to cash-in on the popularity of the intellectual belongings (IP) it is based on. When Lego made games for 32/64-bit systems (amidst the blast of mascot-based, collectibles-ridden 3D platforming genre) they tapped into a high-profile license to operate for their offset major foray into licensed games: Star Wars. Sure enough, they had a bonafide striking on their hands. The game was a lot of fun as well as received by as well as large positive reviews from critics. As the years went by, they licensed diverse other well-known IP's similar Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings as well as Batman to brand games that by as well as large used the template they used for the offset game. They added novel features as well as improved the mechanics for newer games of course, but each novel game plays similarly alongside the previous ones (albeit using characters as well as environments from a unlike IP). Lego eventually used master cloth for their games though, by as well as large based on their actual Lego brick sets (like Lego City, Ninjago as well as Chima). These master games maintained the high character their platforming games are known for, of course, thence they continued selling actually good for them.
When the Wii U came out, a Lego game based on the Lego City brick laid became a launch championship for the system, Lego City Undercover, as well as this game has but late been ported over to other electrical flow generation systems. The game focuses on the misadventures of hole-and-corner Lego City cop Chase McCain inward his mission to recapture an escaped criminal named Rex Fury. The game has really funny dialogue as well as a lot of diverse movie, game as well as pop civilization references (including some from Titanic, Assassin's Creed as well as Sherlock Holmes). Like virtually every other Lego game that came out earlier it, Lego City Undercover has a lot of in-game collectibles. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 LOT! In improver to measure bricks as well as studs that human action equally your in-game currency, at that topographic point are literally thousands of things to collect (like Gold Bricks, Red Bricks, Super Bricks as well as Police Shields).
Since Chase is hole-and-corner he has access to several disguises, each of which grants him novel abilities to use. The robber disguise lets him unlock safes, for example, patch the farmer disguise enables him to operate a chicken to glide. Switching betwixt diverse characters alongside unique abilities has been a nub mechanic of Lego games for progression, as well as this game's disguise arrangement effectively mimics that.
As y'all progress through the storey as well as reach to a greater extent than disguises as well as abilities, to a greater extent than areas of the urban center volition teach available for y'all to explore. You volition also live able to travel into some indoor areas inward most storey missions. The game has xv principal chapters, some of which guide hold special side quests inside them. It volition accept y'all or thence 15-20 hours to teach to the halt credits, but it may accept completionists to a greater extent than than double that to teach a 100% completion rate.
While the game is really fun to play it does guide hold some problems. In fact, some of these kid problems are also introduce inward older Lego games. Collision detection tin live dodgy inward the game at times, especially when y'all endeavour to hang from ledges or climb handholds. At times, y'all may of a precipitous driblet from them if y'all veer out of their bounds for fifty-fifty a tiny bit. It tin teach annoying if y'all driblet as well as guide hold to redo a pregnant department of an area. Also, I had a frustrating experience inward the sewer chapter in 1 trial where a laid slice that I needed to progress did non spawn inward my game. After aimlessly trying to let on a agency to progress as well as realizing that the game could guide hold bugged out on me, I reloaded my game as well as in conclusion the missing matter I needed to progress appeared. Hopefully instances similar these tin live fixed before long via a patch. Loading the opened upwards Blue Planet surface area of the game tin also accept upwards to a infinitesimal at times, but in 1 trial it loads upwards everything plays smoothly. The frame charge per unit of measurement of the game is locked at 30fps on the opened upwards Blue Planet surface area as well as 60fps for enclosed, indoor areas on a vanilla PS4. The game runs rather good compared to the master Wii U release, which had frame charge per unit of measurement inconsistencies at some areas.
Overall, Lego City Undercover is a fun entry to the Lego serial of games. It is also 1 of the ameliorate ones inward my opinion, because it is non tied to a specific franchise as well as because the game's tongue-in-cheek humour has a universal appeal. It implements opened upwards Blue Planet exploration pretty nicely too, alongside lots of things to produce as well as collect if y'all produce non experience similar continuing alongside the story. The game has some kid issues, but these instances volition non ruin your fun alongside the game at all. If y'all are a fan of opened upwards Blue Planet games alongside lots of things to collect as well as a humorous albeit featherbrained storey thence produce yourself a favor as well as cheque this game out.
YAY
- Solid, opened upwards Blue Planet gameplay
- Fun storyline as well as featherbrained humor
- A lot of things to produce exterior of the principal campaign
NAY
- Has some glaring collision detection issues
- Humor may non appeal to everyone
- Some players may let on the number of in-game collectibles overwhelming
REVIEW SCORE: 8.5/10
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