![]() I also appreciated the characters that could fly, since walking off a ledge was no longer fatal – you simply go into hover mode. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is certainly a fun shared experience when you aren’t distracted by the angular split-screen, and I’ll keep saying this until they implement it – PLEASE DO ONLINE CO-OP!Ĭontrols are responsive and I enjoyed the fact that most characters had a ranged attack that made smashing things easier since I didn’t have to melee every object in the game. As always, the game has drop-in/out co-op play that goes into split-screen if characters get too far apart. I really enjoyed the way the designers integrated some team puzzle solving, and the game’s AI seemed to function much better this time around when trying to get a computer character to stand on a button. playing a LEGO game is still basically running around smashing everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) in sight, then collecting the multi-colored studs along with dozens of other collectibles, and periodically fashioning some new construct from the vibrating rubble to solve environmental and character-based puzzles. And to their credit, WBIE has priced the core game at $40 and the DLC at $15, so you can get the entire PC Deluxe Edition for $55 – $20 less than the console release.ĭespite the wonderful use of the Marvel license, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, at its core, is still a LEGO game, and while the graphics and presentation have evolved light-years beyond what we had back in the early days of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, etc. The content just keeps coming with the Season Pass that adds six new levels and four packs of additional characters – again, too many to list but note that recent movies such as Black Panther, Infinity War, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Ant-Man and The Wasp all get characters and levels. There are also Challenges and a 4-player Battle Mode. While the story can be finished in 10-12 hours expect to spend 30-40 hours finding and unlocking 100% of the content. ![]() You’ll also need the required characters to be unlocked and selectable, which makes this a great mode for revisiting the game after the story has been completed. Of course the second most infamous feature of LEGO games is their aggravating ability to tease you with areas you cannot access and things you cannot do until you return in the Free Play Mode that is unlocked once you finished a level in Story Mode. From here you can launch your missions into story-based levels where preselected character combinations work as a team to complete specific objectives while doing what all LEGO games do best – break stuff. With the story and motivation in place you’ll find yourself working out of the Avengers’ Mansion, a rather massive hub area with multiple wings, levels, and rooms granting you access to all the primary game functions you would typical find in a menu. The whole city is under the control of Kang who rules from his centrally located fortress while other supervillains are scattered about Chronopolis, each in possession of a Nexus shard you’ll need to collect in order to open a portal to summon allies for the big boss fight against Kang. While an impressive backdrop for the first level, Chronopolis only gets more interesting the more you play as you realize it is a complex merging of multiple time-shift versions of Manhattan, along with other fictional Marvel locales such as Thor’s homeworld of Asgard, the Inhuman city of Attilan, the Kree homeworld of Hala, and a Nazi whitewashed version of Red Skull’s Hydra Empire. Kang the Conqueror is using the Infinity Stone of Time to assemble his own dark army from across the Marvel multiverse along with notable landmarks he has fashioned into a single megacity, Chronopolis, which is where we meet up with the Guardians of the Galaxy in the opening level of the game. While LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is easily playable as a standalone game those who have played the 2013 original will have a slight upper hand, at least with the storyline, and those current with events from Marvel’s 2015 Secret Wars will enjoy lots of plotline crossovers. I’m not going to go into detail on the rest of the unlockable cast because, frankly, there are just too many plus, surprises are fun! ![]() ![]() Headlining the updated roster are the Guardians of the Galaxy, and fresh off their canceled-after-one-season show, the Inhumans. Sadly, Fox maintains an Iron Man grip on their X-Men property, so our favorite mutants won’t be coming out to play, but in their place we get just about every other super hero you’ve ever heard of, and maybe a few you haven’t, in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2. Marvel fans assemble! It’s time to suit up for the biggest ensemble super-hero game allowed by law…or at least strategic licensed marketing. ![]()
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