![]() This poses a severe problem for the latest outing, as the source material isn't particularly funny, and thus doesn't leave much room for a sprinkling of that trademark humour. The gameplay might be stale for many gamers out there, but the one thing that keeps these games feeling fresh and worth coming back to is the undeniable wit found in the writing. In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril, the variety of characters and their super powers each felt unique in LEGO The Hobbit, all of the characters feel like slightly different takes on the same archetype.Ĭhanges to the world map and resource collection aside, LEGO The Hobbit is practically identical to other recent handheld LEGO titles. The controls work well, and optional use of the 3DS’s touchscreen to perform tasks or switch between characters is useful in streamlining the action, but it’s all very repetitive and doesn’t provide an original experience. Obstacles that require specific actions to be performed in order to pass often block off sections of the stages, but thankfully you have an entire band of dwarves with unique skills at your disposal to get the job done. As can be expected, most of the action involves traversing from one end of each linear stage to the next, ferociously tapping Y to break your enemies to bits and solving very basic puzzles in-between. Gameplay remains the same as it has in the most recent portable LEGO outings, opting for an isometric view of the playing field rather than rendering the environments and characters in explorable 3D. As it is, the game does follow the plot all the way up to the end of the second film, then abruptly stopping where the third should pick up. Releasing this game prior to the third film's première, thus not including the entire trilogy in one package, is a questionable decision, leaving us wondering if the final film will be available to play as DLC on 3DS, as has been implied for the home console iterations. ![]() The game does well to abridge the movies, maintaining the majority of the stories while transforming them into an interactive experience. ![]() The brick-based The Lord of the Rings adaptation popped up in 2012, and now comes LEGO The Hobbit, a game based on the current film series which is an adaptation of the novel that first introduced us to Tolkien’s tumultuous world of Middle-earth.įollowing the plot of the first two films in the ongoing trilogy, LEGO The Hobbit tells the story of Bilbo Baggins and his Dwarven companions as they attempt to reclaim the usurped throne of Erebor. Tolkien, of Lord of the Rings and other high-fantasy classics fame, is swirling around this vortex yet again. It doesn’t take an analyst to know that the entertainment industry loves a good trend, and one current example is to find a hugely popular work of fiction, turn it into a big-budget film, then let Warner Bros.
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