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Lego Battles for the Nintendo DS may be worthy of the Lego name
Last month, Lego Batman was singled out by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood for its disingenuous Lego branding. One of the reasons Legos are great for kids is that they encourage creativity and building. But Lego Batman, like its Indiana Jones and Star Wars predecessors, is just an action game with a cutesy Lego look. The Campaign rightly called them on it.
Fortunately, it looks like Warner Brothers Interactive might addressing that complaint in Lego Battles, due out this summer for the Nintendo DS. LEGO Battles offers a new kind of "build and battle" LEGO gameplay. Through six distinct story lines, players build their own LEGO bases and battle teams as they engage in over 70 different levels, mixing and matching units to create the ultimate customized LEGO squad. These unique LEGO battles teams see pirate swordsmen fighting side-by-side with wizards and aliens; dragons battling ninjas; and pirate ships launching broadsides against spacecraft and knights!
Ninjas and pirates is awfully exciting, but they had me at "new kind of...gameplay". Might I suggest Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts as a model?
By Chijts at 1:00 PM ON 02/05/09
If they can pull off what they said in that paragraph, it sounds like it could be awesome.
By ydejin at 4:19 PM ON 02/05/09
That sounds great! I'm sad it's only coming out for the DS though.
By Beren6 at 10:37 AM ON 02/08/09
I'm certainly a lover of video games, but I have to admit these Lego games have me flummoxed. Don't they sorta defeat the whole purpose of what Legos are for? Personally, I'd rather be concocting my own battles with a few figures and a pile of generic Lego bricks. The imagination is still the best graphics card out there.
Beren6:
I'm certainly a lover of video games, but I have to admit these Lego games have me flummoxed. Don't they sorta defe...More »