The banter between them and the numerous other characters they encounter throughout the very lengthy campaign is one of the most wonderful aspects of this game. It’s an unlikely trio one that you’d expect to find in a six-year-old’s Saturday morning LEGO game.
The game’s story follows the exploits of Gandalf, Batman, and Wyldstyle who all come with the starter pack of the game. Maybe Trump should play this game?Įnter a bunch of familiar characters from various dimensions to try to stop Vortech. I guess the message that the game is trying to send is “rigid uniformity is bad let’s celebrate everyone’s differences instead”. Vortech has clearly taken a leaf out of Lord Business’s book, because he wants to collect each realm’s Foundation Element, so as to destroy them all and make one pure LEGO realm. It turns out there’s this new bad guy on the scene called Lord Vortech (who is voiced by Gary Oldman one of numerous celebrity voice actors). So, for example, in the Wizard of Oz dimension, the Ruby Slippers are the Foundation Element. Within each dimension is a Foundation Element, which is normally some item that’s intrinsically tied to that IP’s mythos. There’s a Middle-earth dimension (“Don’t you mean Middle-Zealand?” Wyldstyle asks Gandalf there are heaps of clever IP cross-references found throughout the game), a Simpsons dimension, a Scooby Doo dimension, etc. In the game, all of these various LEGO versions of popular franchises exist in their own dimensions. The premise is silly but a suitable excuse for basically mashing together a whole bunch of different intellectual properties. The wait was worth it, however, because LEGO Dimensions is some of the most fun I’ve had in a game this year. They chose to play it safe and release the game slowly in different territories, which is why we’re a year behind the likes of the USA and EU. has published that has a significant physical aspect to it. We missed the initial September 2015 release for logistics purposes: this is the first title that Warner Bros. Website: LEGO Dimensions is a year old already, but it’s new to the South Africa market.
Platform/s: PS3 / PS4 / Wii U / X360 / XBO It’s smart, hilarious, and it does new and very clever things with its portal. While it does do that, it also turns out that the actual GAME is brilliant. Pessimists would say it’s a game that sells itself safely on the LEGO brand. Depending on how you look at it, it’s either the safest new IP in the genre, or the most ingenious. Marketplace segue aside, LEGO Dimensions is the new undisputed king of the toys-to-life genre. for the inevitable LEGO Dimensions sequel, and then sit back and let others do all the hard work while the cash piles up.
Or maybe it’s entirely the point? Maybe Disney Infinity got canned because Disney knows they could just license LEGO Star Wars to Warner Bros. The fact that heaps of Disney’s franchises are already part of the LEGO brand ( Star Wars, Marvel, etc.) is beside the point. Disney Infinity is dead not even the largest entertainment company’s massive stable of franchises can stand up to LEGO. You want to know my theory? When LEGO Dimensions arrived on the scene (rather late in the toys-to-life genre’s existence), Disney took one look at it and pretty much bowed-out of the marketplace. How anyone can expect plastic, immovable figurines from Skylanders and Disney Infinity to compete with actual LEGO sets for a kid’s attention is laughable. The “toys” part is being handled by LEGO arguably the best toy brand on the planet. Alright look, here’s the thing about LEGO Dimensions: it was always going to have an ENORMOUS advantage in the toys-to-life marketplace.