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You’re not expected to treat this as being on the same level as the movie tie-ins, and indeed it really is a wholly separate undertaking.LEGO Worlds takes out the need for a story and places you in the shoes of a nameless intergalactic traveler exploring the stars. In some ways Lego Worlds is a huge step forwards for the team, but in others remains utterly stuck in the past. Some of the negative points might be forgiven given Lego Worlds’ budget pricing. While it’s visually smart enough, and there have been some nice improvements, such as the fact your character can now clamber up from ledges, it’s still beset by the bugs that have plagued the Lego fraanchise throughout it’s life, and the control and camera issues we’ve become accustomed to. You can create mountains with castles atop them, surrealist forests teaming with Lego life, or indeed nearly anything you can think of, and the Traveller’s Tales engine will present them vibrantly in all their brick-y glory. Lego Worlds provides you with the tools and means to put together something that you could likely never afford the bricks for in the real world. That’s not to say that you can’t build some amazing structures.
My son is nearly six, and merrily plays the mainline Lego games on his own, but Lego Worlds is far more complicated, and far less welcoming, despite the developers best attempts. It nearly works, but it’s still rather cumbersome to use and that’s probably not nearly good enough, particularly when a large proportion of those playing the game are liable to be young children. Traveller’s Tales have done their best to make things as intuitive as possible, and the controls map to the controller in an understandable fashion. The biggest problem though is with the building itself. Of course, they could have deliberately programmed the caveman with suitably Neolithic AI on purpose, but probably not. Attempting to help a caveman to cross a lava stream, for example, required building a bridge far wider than was needed, as he’d otherwise get stuck. This being a Lego game, there’s still some unwieldiness to the engine and in the way that characters behave. It’s not slavish in either of those reference points, as this is a Lego game first and foremost, but that point in itself brings a bunch of legacy issues.
It’s never overly complicated, with relatively menial tasks to find this, build that, remove this, but there’s a nice flow to it that keeps you moving forward while you learn how everything works.īesides the obvious foundation that are shared with the monolithic Minecraft, there’s a great deal of influence from Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet, most obviously in the thought bubbles that appear from characters and the booming narrator’s voice that accompanies much of the proceedings. Also on your tool wheel, you have the Landscape tool, which is a hugely powerful item that can alter the landscape in seconds, creating hills or flattening sections of the world, as well as tunnelling deep into the terrain. Besides that there’s the central Build tool, which allows you to do all of the necessary building, the self-explanatory Paint tool, and the Copy tool that lets you scan and copy any portion of an existing build.Įach world is generally bustling with things to do, whether it’s items to discover, mini-quests to undertake, or tasks that are going to grant you the Gold Bricks you need to advance.
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