All the familiar locations pop up - X-Men Academy, Latveria, OSCORP, Asgard, and so on. TT have plundered the Marvel vaults with glee, as the game blurs the canons. It's deeply engrossing, ridiculously so for someone who knows they really need to be getting on with the main quest for their review, but cannot run past a trigger spot for a Sentinel fight. There are a whole bunch of races to do in the unwieldy Lego cars, people to rescue, and dozens of other characters and vehicles to unlock. Unless you do, of course.) There are a bunch of the 250 gold Lego bricks to get here, whether it's solving a bunch of puzzles, platforming your way to a goal, shrinking Ant-Man down to fit in peculiar rat mazes, or driving remote controlled cars around little tracks. (It's basically the same as GTA, except you don't punch the driver. The space is vast, quickly navigated by flying heroes like Iron Man or Thor, or best negotiated in "donated" vehicles used by grounded supers. And what an addition, making an already ridiculously huge game even massivier. Honestly, I've lost track of whether they've done something similar in a previous game, but this is a magnificent addition. The open New York City is something else. And then I play some more and I forget I was cross. TT clearly don't care about fixing this stuff, and that pisses me off. And as ever, all the same mistakes are in place - the horrible camera during platforming sections, awkward vehicles, and the endlessly infuriating pop-up tips that appear every single time you perform certain actions. As ever, each is packed with secrets to find, gentle puzzles to solve, Lego enemies to break, and absolutely everything to smash. And they are very familiar Lego Something are, which is to say, invariably brilliant.
The core missions generally provide you with a roster of two to four heroes, sometimes changing as you go through, usually in pursuit of a title baddy.
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Each becomes playable once you've defeated them, either in the open city, or in the Free Play mode as you go back through levels a second time. He's got Loki and Magneto in his frontlines, and then just about every baddy you can think of from Doc Oc to Mandarin, Green Goblin to Electro, MODOK to Rhino. Doom's after them, for what might well be "Doctor Doom's Doomray Of DOOM!". The Silver Surfer gets kersplatted in a cutscene at the start, and his board gets shattered into blocks of "the power cosmic". As you might expect, there's a break-out at the Raft at the start, allowing Dr Doom to recruit an awful lot of familiar (and less familiar) evil faces to help him in his quest to. There's an emphasis on the Avengers (of the Whedon variety), but tons of X-Men, the Fantastic 4, Spidey, and a metric ton of baddies from every corner. The worst is that they deem Spider-Man as one of the non-genius characters, who can't use computers. The best example would be Reed "Mr Fantastic" Richards, who when bored can turn himself into a teapot and then hop around. It's their version, and it's not beholden to your lore. While most of their leads have been taken by the film versions of most major characters, these guys are always made of Lego. It needs one, because TT have taken all the liberties you'd expect, if you've enjoyed their stunning Lego Star Wars or Lego Harry Potter series. Let's all admit that's the best possible choice.
I've not checked to see whether this project has been designated with an official Marvel universe number. And oh thank goodness, TT are delighting in the vast array of nonsense to spoof and celebrate within the Marvelverse.
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It's a massive expansion of the usual formula, this time featuring a huge, open New York to explore, ludicrously packed with missions, quests, challenges and mini-games, with the main story quests launching from within. I'm utterly hooked, have been playing for two days solid and am still a tiny percentage toward complete, enjoying epic set pieces that feel like worthy entries into the muddle of Marvel non-canon. Lego Marvel Super Heroes is bloody brilliant. By all rights this should be a tired mess, because no studio can release eighteen Lego games (25 if you include everything else) in eight years and still keep things fresh, interesting and entertaining. And that's not including the other six Lego licenses they've released in the same eight years. This is the twelfth game in TT Games' astonishingly successful franchise. I've been playing it non-stop for days, and despite being told I'm only 20% of the way through, feel ready to tell you wot I think: Quite why Warner would go to such lengths to screw up the release of such an excellent game we're not sure. Lego Marvel Super Heroes is out in the States, but has then horribly drowned in the oceans, seemingly not released in Europe until the 15th November.
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