What Lego Jurassic doesn’t do is innovate on the previous Lego games a great deal – nor does it really need to. The humour is suitably silly and it’s clear that the design team poured a lot of love, knowledge and nostalgia into the game, particularly in the section dedicated to the original movie. It’s in the “free play” mode where you can make the most of the dinosaurs and vehicles, creating your own reptilian beasts and roaming the Jurassic islands – like a sort of prehistoric Grand Theft Auto.Īs in other Lego games, the graphics are clean and the cartoon style perfect for its plastic subjects. Jumping, charging and biting your way through the level as a velociraptor is good fun but these moments are all too short and sporadic in the Campaign section. The stand out feature for Lego Jurassic World is the ability to control the dinosaurs. You can switch easily between the characters involved in your level, and if a situation presents itself where another character might be useful, they often begin to leap about vying for your attention.
Lego dinosaurs, it turns out, like to eat useful items. Each character also has their own special skills, from throwing a grappling hook to following tracks, squeezing into small holes, or diving headlong into large piles of dinosaur poo and having a good rummage for something useful. Meanwhile, in certain places, piles of unbuilt Lego will bounce enthusiastically around you, and with a tap of the button your character will build some incredible structure to move you further on in the level. The general rule is, if a scenic feature looks like a Lego set, then hit it.
These convert into game points that unlock rewards and extra content. And this time the game comes with an inbuilt tips guide in the form of “DNA”, the cartoon helper from the Jurassic movies who bears a disconcerting resemblance to Microsofts legendary paperclip – although fortunately he’s actually useful.Īs ever, while exploring film scenes, you’re also smashing up the landscape to collect Lego studs – the small round pieces that usually get sucked up into your vacuum cleaner.
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The levels are packed with characters from the cinematic series – not just the obvious leads, but also obscure extras – as well as instantly recognisable dinosaurs, vehicles and locations. In the main story mode, players run through scenes recreated from the current blockbuster, as well from the original Jurassic Park and its two subsequent sequels – all filled with puzzles and appended by TT games’ quirky Lego humour. Now it is the turn of Jurassic World, and for those familiar with the Lego game formula, there isn’t much new here besides a change of IP. Each of these bright, funny action adventures is expertly crafted to exploit both the appeal of the blocks themselves and the various licences – from Star Wars to Harry Potter – that have been converted into playset form. And, of course, we have the Lego video games from UK-based studio Traveller’s Tales.
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