Hold the ‘Switch Character’ button while playing Shazam/Captain Marvel and he yells “Shazam!” and a bolt of lightning transforms him into Billy Batson. Ace the Bat-hound, whose tail keeps on hitting his cape. Mr Freeze sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Batman’s Power Suit looks like his Dark Knight Returns Superman-facing armour.
Allow me to give a short list of the things that’ll mean nothing to most people but impressed the hell out of me for pure fanboy glee.ĭex-Starr, the angry Red Lantern cat who wears his Power Ring on his tail. The crazy attention to detail was what I loved most about this game and the franchise commitment frankly isn’t done better anywhere else. The story’s fun and frequently amusing, the gameplay I’ll get to, but the depths of the DC universe TT Games delves to is incredible. The reason for this is simple: it’s pure, unadulterated, never-ending fan-joy. If you are a DC fanboy like me then no excuses - buy LEGO Batman 3 right this instant. The League goes to retake the Watchtower, but they soon discover that the mysterious ship belongs to Superman villain Brainiac, the cybernetic Collector of Worlds, who plans on adding Earth to his collection. Basically it starts with Batman discovering an unknown ship approaching Earth, but his investigation is interrupted when Joker, Lex Luthor and a number of other villains invade the Justice League Watchtower satellite. LEGO Batman 3 does this well, and there are even a couple of entertaining twists along the way. They’re never particularly epic but they do their job, which is to create a fun scenario where loads of heroes and villains clash and go to interesting places.
Unlike most of TT Games’ licensed LEGO titles (Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Hobbit etc) their comic book games all tell original stories. So is LEGO Batman 3 the best they’ve ever done or a complete reinvention of a now predictable formula? Well, read on. What makes that fact easier to swallow is that TT Games generally make really great games that are absolutely packed with fan-service. With Arkham Knight not due for another seven months and the chances of a non-2D fighting Justice League game or a decent Marvel game remote this is absolutely the best we have for comic book superhero games for the near future. Turn your nose up if you will, but as a huge DC fanboy I’ve been massively excited about the release of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
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