Subscribe to the Reporting Gamer column:
RSS or
Newsletter.
Format:
PS3
Genre:
Platforming
Style:
Assistance
Cooperative
Sharedscreen
Splitscreen
Thirdperson
Further reading:
Chris Jarvis
Lego Batman (Wii)
Batman: Arkham City (360)
Buy/Support:
Support Paul, click to buy via us...
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes offers a return to the carefree cartoon world of a fun Lego licence not constrained by a movie tie-in.
What made the first Lego Batman (Wii) so entertaining was partly that without the need to tie the storyline into the particular events of a movie, the game was free to mine the entire comic book series for situations, locations and villains which would provide the most entertaining abilities and gameplay.
In Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes this legacy is continued, this time delving into the wider DC comics universe to include Superman, Lex Luthor, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern amongst others. The developers are promising that you will be able to enable an "expansive" Gotham City environment in this game. Whether or not this means it will feature an open city gameplay like Batman: Arkham City (360) remains to be seen. Lego City Stories has previously been announced, with certainly proves that the game's creator have open-city play currently in development.
New character skills will also be incorporated for the new characters, including flight, super-breath and heat vision. Presumably these are to support Superman. It will be fascinating to see how the Lego games tackle the tricky problem of making Superman's flight playable, especially given that every Superman game I can think of has been appalling.
The Lego games have a reputation for great comic storytelling, fun action and intuitive two-player co-operative play and it will be great to see Batman and friends make a return. Here's hoping for the multiplayer to make it to the handheld versions.
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is due for release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Windows PC, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita in the summer of 2012.
Chris Jarvis wrote this Reporting Gamer article under the watchful eye of Paul Govan.
"The problem with video game news is that there is so much of it. I've made it my task to sift out the noise and bring you news about games I think you should be excited about."
Here are the games I've been playing recently:
© GamePeople 2006-13 | Contact | Huh?
Family Video Game Age Ratings | Home | About | Radio shows | Columnists | Competitions | Contact RSS | Email | Twitter | Facebook With so many different perspectives it can be hard to know where to start - a little like walking into a crowded pub. Sorry about that. But so far we've not found a way to streamline our review output - there's basically too much of it. So, rather than dilute things for newcomers we have decided to live with the hubbub while helping new readers find the columnists they will enjoy. |
Our columnists each focus on a particular perspective and fall into one of the following types of gamers:
|