![]() ![]() There’s always been a curious paradox to the way LEGO games actually play. After each initial run-through you unlock Free Play mode, where you can hand pick from that extensive character roster and go back in for a closer look. Noteworthy playable highlights include Ms Marvel, who delights with her body-morphing abilities and lolloping gait, and her own hero Captain Marvel, whose takeoff and flight animations are enough to get anyone excited for her big screen debut.Īs before, much of the fun here (at least for the completionists among us) lies in coming back to ostensibly completed levels and grabbing all of the trinkets you missed the first time around. ![]() Yes, the likes of Cap, Spidey, Thor and Iron Man stick around for much of the story, but TT has wisely incorporated new heroes from the wider Marvel lore. It’s not just the usual big hitters who get to show their mettle here, either. All characters, of course, know how to build LEGO, and there’s a timeless joy in smashing up one level object and using the pieces to build another. She-Hulk can smash through weak walls, Thor can charge up motors, Black Panther can slash through vines, Cap can bounce his shield off multiple strike points, and there are all sorts of uses for Star-Lord’s gravity grenades. Each category of hero is able to affect specific level elements, and the required interplay between each of your team mates is often very clever indeed. It’s the same basic formula as every LEGO game from the past dozen years, though that’s not to say that developer Traveller’s Tales hasn’t tweaked things in that time. You know the drill by now: run through constrained 3D environments, bashing up henchmen, trashing level furniture, solving basic environmental puzzles and hoovering up a steady stream of studs. Because comic books.ĭespite the presence of this impressive hub world, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2’s humour-filled story is told through a succession of linear levels. You can dart from the Sanctum Sanctorum to K’un-Lun in less than a couple of minutes, and it somehow makes perfect sense. Kang has been tinkering with the space-time continuum again, which results in a number of disparate Marvel universes from various periods combining into the bespoke realm of Chronopolis.ĭashing, flying and swinging around this condensed hub world is one of the main joys in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2. The driving force behind this Marvel-lous mash-up is an invasion by Kang the Conqueror, one of the earliest big bads from the Avengers comic books. It can’t hurt that many of those characters have been revitalised through recent TV and cinema treatments, either.Īll of this feeds into the tasty pop culture gumbo that is LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, in which you can swing around Manhattan as Spidey, clobber Surtur as Thor (male or female), and manipulate time as Dr Strange from within a single open world environment. With the comic giant’s peerless roster of colourful characters, developer Traveller’s Tales has the perfect canvass on which to paint. Throughout that time, though, there’s arguably been no better fit for the Danish toy brand than Marvel. The LEGO effect has benefited many a popular fiction franchise since 2005, from Star Wars to Jurassic Park to Harry Potter.
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