Once again, my wife and I have played another Lego game. I’ll make this quick! I think the superhero genre is a great fit for these games; lots of brightly coloured weirdoes with different powers. Flight especially is a game-changer, breaking level design but also allowing the vast hub world first seen in Lego Batman 2. This game’s New York is much brighter than Gotham, to its benefit. The Wii U is a great platform too, allowing both players a full-width screen to play on; however, we did come to appreciate the improved frame-rate that comes with putting both players on the TV, and traded between two screens in the hub and split-screen in the levels.
The game does a reasonable job with showing a variety of locations in the Marvel universe (from what I know of it, anyway). And I do love having a cast of the Avengers, Spiderman, the X-Men, and the Fantastic 4 all together, as they should be. This also allows a good range of villains for a classic EVIL TEAM UP. I just wish, again, that they spent more time playtesting and fixing bugs. We had more softlocks and hard crashes than ever before. Apart from that though, one of the better Lego games, with lots of good ideas from the big hub to the bonus mini-levels, to good use of different character abilities. Not awkwardly splicing in dialogue from movies is good too.
