![]() ![]() The writing is very funny, and had a few moments where I genuinely laughed. The game looks very nice even in handheld mode like most Switch games. These include red bricks, character tokens, vehicle tokens, and many other character specific items. The difficulty really comes from the collectibles, which includes a myriad of things. If you run out of hearts, you simply respawn. Overall this game is easy, has very little difficult sections, and you can't die fully. Overall, its a fairly straight-forward story, but does its job well. You are tasked with capturing a notorious criminal, named Rex Fury and his gang. However, the rest of the experience is as good as it was back in 2013, and if you missed it the first time around (as many of you surely did), it's still worth taking a trip to Lego City.You start off as a police officer named Chase McCain. It's not a perfect port by any means, and they could and should have done something to shorten the loading times (we played on Switch), and there's a few too many bugs in there all things considered. The open-world style and freedom afforded players only magnifies the enjoyment, and there's never been a better Lego game to simply explore and have fun in (perhaps with the exception of the sandbox worlds in Lego Dimensions, but individually these are much smaller).Īll told we enjoyed our return to Lego City Undercover, and this overlooked entry in the Lego universe will finally have the chance to reach the audience it deserves. ![]() We had a lot of fun chasing each other around, racing cars, collecting things, and generally wreaking havoc on the citizens and criminals of Lego City. The frame-rate stays relatively steady when played in split-screen, and players can easily jump into a game together and roam the city as they see fit (you're not tied together, and so you can head in opposite directions if you wish, with each others' positions clearly marked on the mini-map). The best new feature is definitely the integration of local co-op. In fact, the relative ease with which they managed the transition away from the GamePad merely demonstrates how little they really used it in the first place. Leading man Chase McCain still carries around a controller-like device which he uses to talk to key characters in the game, and there's no hiding the game's origins, but the new setup feels natural nonetheless. It actually makes very little difference to the experience, with the second-screen functionality mapped to the D-pad in this new version. ![]() There are a couple of key differences when compared to the Wii U original, the most obvious being the lack of a GamePad. The side content will keep you busy for a time, but it's the main story that's the big draw here, and throughout the missions you'll find mechanics that we've seen elsewhere in the Lego games put to good use. Exploring each and every corner won't take forever, but there are activities to distract you as you go around completing the missions. Lego City isn't the biggest sandbox playground out there, but it's big enough for our purposes, and frankly if it was any larger it probably would have been too much for younger players. Like GTA before it (you won't be surprised to hear that it's regularly referred to as "Grand Theft Lego"), players have access to an open-world. After just a few hours with the Switch version we had experienced a couple of bugs that forced a reload (and therefore a small loss of progress), one or two noticeable frame-rate drops, and load times so generous that one could easily make a snack in-between missions.īeyond the less-than-stellar technical update, it looks good, plays great, and is full of funny, family friendly storytelling and intuitive game design that makes it enjoyable to play for both kids and big kids alike. We liked it back then, and we like it still, although now, in 2017, performance issues have marred its return, shifting emphasis away from the quality of the game itself, and focusing our attention on the port. While the game remains largely the same, much else has changed since then, most notably with the Wii U put out to pasture by Nintendo following lacklustre sales, replaced as it has been by the Switch.īut that doesn't change the fact that Lego City Undercover was one of the best games for Nintendo's outgoing system, and it still stands as one of the finest Lego games ever made, which, given the overall high quality of that series, is no easy feat. We're going to keep to the point in this review, because in terms of content, very little has changed since Lego City Undercover landed on Wii U as a console exclusive way back in 2013. ![]()
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