Player’s Club: Lego Batman review
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Lego Batman
Released Sept. 23
Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, DS and PC
Developed by Traveller’s Tales
Published by Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment
Batman is the third cultural touchstone to get the Lego videogame treatment after Star Wars and Indiana Jones. It’s a better fit than the previous two, with a richer, deeper body of source material to tap. It also shares more of a focus with the series’ primary game-play mechanic, which is pretty much just busting stuff and handing Lego dudes their blocky asses through a variety of foot- and fist-based techniques. Oh yeah, and vehicles. You can’t have a Lego game without ’em and Batman’s got a ton, from the Batamaran to the Segway Personal Batsporter. So it’s basically a perfect combination of franchises, right? A surefire recipe for endless hours of fun, no questions asked?
Well, not quite. (more…)
