Lego Indiana Jones & Lego Batman

[Gwen Rockpounder]

Originally Posted by Sunnyd

Tried the demo for indiana jones, and even with the wank PC controls it was fun. Looking forward to both its release and that of the Batman game.

If you have a 360 controller (wired or using the charge lead) just stick it in the PC and get the drivers from Microsoft, if it doesnt recognise, and off you go. My lad was playing the demo last night using just this and said it was as good as playing it on the 360.

[Surlok TP]

I love in the first one when they cut Darth Maul in half and it's just the lego body removed from the legs,and the legs stand there with the two little spikes that get inserted into the body still showing. It's a brilliant way of bringing mature content in a game suitable really for all ages.

The Space battles were excellent as well, they were just really solid games and one of the few where if you were a Jedi you actually felt ridiculously overpowered , if someone shot at you you just had to face the shot to deflect no pressing buttons and shit. MY son and I spent hours playing the first batch of games on the GC.

[Frax]

Just finished the demo, same high quality of the Star Wars Lego games. A lot of fun to play, and the Batman one looks pretty promising as well.

Just need a Lord of the Rings version

[Runnen]

Originally Posted by Frax

Just need a Lord of the Rings version

Hehe well we'll get that one when LEGO buys the rights to do Lord of the Rings scenery.. until then, I think we can expect the next LEGO game to be about Harry Potter, if they are going to do the movie franchises that already exist as LEGO toys.

[Burf]

Originally Posted by Surlok TP

if you were a Jedi you actually felt ridiculously overpowered , if someone shot at you you just had to face the shot to deflect no pressing buttons and shit. MY son and I spent hours playing the first batch of games on the GC.

If you held the block button, blaster shots would just bounce away from you. But, if you waited and pressed the block button just when the blaster bolt was about to hit you, it would reflect back at the person that fired at you and hit them instead.

[Hatorade]

Anyone put some time into the indiana jones lego game? Is it as good as the starwars one?

[Lorrac]

As everyone's been saying, the Lego Star Wars games are great fun. I'm looking forward to replaying the rolling boulder scene in the Indiana Jones game =D

[Asmadai]

Lego Indiana Jones is fun as hell. Tons of easter eggs in it all (I heard you can even unlock Han Solo =P).

[huh]

How good are the keyboard + mouse controls?

[Djaypally]

Playing the Original Trilogy now...it seems pretty much impossible not to beat a level. It's still fun. If you're a completion junkie, I can tell already that you could spend a lot of time going back through levels to see/collect everything, though.

[Burf]

In Star Wars, it is very difficult to not beat a level. But it can be tough to collect all the coins and fill the bar. When you die, you lose some coins--die enough and there's no way to complete the bar. However, once the bar is full (and blinking), it stays full even if you die after that.

Completing the coin bars on the levels unlocks stuff. So, it's easy to win, but not as easy to unlock all the stuff.

God, I hope that made sense.

[Djaypally]

Well, it makes sense to me and anyone that's played it. :P Back to the topic, I think I'm much more interested in the Indiana Jones version than the Batman version...I like Batman, but it doesn't fit this style of game, in my head, for some reason.

[Runnen]

Originally Posted by Djaypally

Well, it makes sense to me and anyone that's played it. :P Back to the topic, I think I'm much more interested in the Indiana Jones version than the Batman version...I like Batman, but it doesn't fit this style of game, in my head, for some reason.

I think it must be in your head, because in my humble opinion, while I'm very happy to see Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Batman is pretty much in-between. Like in Lego Star Wars, many characters had a grappling hook gun, and in Lego Indiana Jones you can use a whip to swing around. Well, Batman, Robin, Batgirl and the like (probably Nightwing too) would have grappling guns, and I'd expect Catwoman to use a whip, so there's little stuff like that that makes it just very adapted to what we have seen of the Lego universe so far. Besides, while I agree that the general tone of Batman wouldn't usually fit the LEGO world (too dark), the game seems to be based on the designs of the Animated Series, which while still quite serious was also on the colorful side at times. It seems fitting to me, but to each their opinion, and I expect all those opinons to be wiped clean when the game comes out as our brains become little more than a jumble of bricks and blocks as we play those tremendously fun games.

[chaos]

Every now and then I get stuck in one of the Lego Star Wars levels because I can't figure out what to do, it's not always apparent. For the most part though, yeah it's one of those games, really easy to beat but difficult to get everything.

[Hatorade]

I expect lego batman to have references to darknight and the adam west series. Its what the do best, make a decent platformer with a ton of funny shit. I will be disapointed if you don't have to run through town with a large bomb of your head