TPG writes: "Lego Battles is a legitimate real time strategy game; you've got structures to build, resources to manage, soldiers to call up to battle for you, all like a "real" RTS. This game is basically Legocraft. The main campaign mode is uniquely structured in that you have 6 different campaigns all based along various Lego themes, from pirates to spacemen and just about everything else in between. Once you beat the first act of the King campaign, you unlock more themes and the second act of the King campaign, and the game gets a great non-linear structure in this way. Some of The acts also have non-linear branching paths, so your progression in this game is very much self-defined.
The game's graphics are very true to the Lego theme - all the units are all modeled after real Lego pieces. There are also well-done video cutscenes that precede each act that humorously set up the story, without any dialog because apparently Lego people are mutes. There's a reason why this game is called Lego Battles and not Lego Diplomacy."
Brandon Thompson writes: "With Traveller's Tales and Warner Bros locking down the rights to create Lego-based video games at least until 2016 and a stable of instant hits released and upcoming titles like Harry Potter on the way, we wanted to look at the licenses we'd most like to see teleported into the popular Lego Universe.
The series already has some great properties tapped like the Batman and Indiana Jones franchises among other big licenses, but we still couldn't help ourselves. Heck, maybe someone will take notice and the seed of an idea will get planted. A fanboy can dream right? So let's see what our top five most wanted Lego-based games are. Again, we don't number our top fives, as that's up to our readers to decide. These are simply our picks in no particular order."
I clicked without reading the title and thought the game was real. I would kill for a real Lego X-Men game.
I think Buffy would be cool, but the Star Trek one has me excited. These are great ideas, but they just make me sad since it's all about 10% chance of EVER happening.
Nintendo Life writes: "Following the unquestionable success of the various Lego games of the past few years, Lego Battles is something of an oddity in the ever-growing stable of generally very good, solid adventure titles (and one rhythm game) from the Lego brand.
It's an odd title for a number of reasons, but the main oddity is that for a Lego game, Battles is remarkably 'non-Lego-y.'"
BeefJack writes: "My life is falling to pieces, somebody put me back together. As we know, the LEGO brand has been used to good effect for nearly every major movie license there is, from Harry Potter to Batman. Now it is time to get back to the LEGO brand itself using their Space, Pirates, Castle, and Battle sets in video game form. It's a very basic Settlers or Civilization-esque Real Time Strategy style LEGO game, using all the different characters of the aforementioned genres including Pirates, Space Police, Kings, Wizards, and Aliens, who each have their own storyline and different missions. There are 90 different levels in total, fighting on land, sea, air, and space using around 30 different vehicles and 55 different characters."
pirates, kings, aliens- AWESOME!
HA! I love the Amazon Marketplace ad on here... selling Star Wars Ultimate Space Battle 7283 for $399.99...
whaaaaa?!
Really good and lengthy review.
looks pretty kewl- sucks for lefties though.