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Well this couldn’t be further from the truth.  The game removes the college as the hub for everything; instead you have boxes that hold the movies.  Within each movie, there is a giant hub where things are gradually unlocked and this is definitely where the problems begin.

The hubs also have minigames and hidden areas, which is the only way to unlock everything.  Most of these are so obscure that unless you use a walkthrough you will be searching for hours on end.  Now some are fun and simplistic, like the ones where you grab a specific vehicle and race around.  Although, these aren’t even perfect as the vehicles are difficult to control and the view does not zoom out enough to see where the next marker is, those problems aside I still like running things down in a vehicle.  Other areas that need to be unlocked are only accessible by using the flying vehicles to parachute into, which I guess seems intuitive, unless you don’t realize there are flying vehicles.

Other minigames needed to achieve 100% require you to go back into the main levels. Since this is the first LEGO game to have a different level inside a level you already played, it is initially very confusing.  On top of this, the levels are darkened the second time through making it difficult to discern parts of the level at times.  Some levels call for this change based on what happens in the main story missions but other times it is unnecessary and annoying.  The good thing about these levels is that it lets you know the types of characters you need, rather than just making you go in and out till you figure out exactly what you need.

The good news is that, other than the vehicles, the controls carry over well from the previous game.  The characters that are in the game for the most part make sense to have, while others such as zombie mannequins don’t make much sense.  The vehicles, since most function similarly, can be a lot of fun.  I mean really who doesn’t want to drive a refrigerator around in the desert.  The flying vehicles are also a convenience if you need to get around the hubs faster.

The stories are what confuse me the most.  I understand that for younger audiences Crystal Skull is the freshest in their minds, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be divided into three parts while the other movies are boiled down to one abridged segment.  For how much people bad mouth Crystal Skull, it surprises me that it is given so much importance.

Overall, the game is good.  It would have been better if this was the first one and the other was the second so you would see an improvement.  That seems mean but I do love the original trilogy and this one just seems over the top and being presented as LEGO doesn’t help its case.

Welcome once again to my monthly questionaire to help the fine folks of DOOM figure out what you love and what you’re so disinterested in you couldn’t be bothered to click a button beside their name. It’s the electronic version of the colluseum and you’re Cesar.

Let’s get on with this shall we?

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Congratulations goes to March’s winner Wonder Woman!

You managed to trounce the competition (especially Super Girl who, it appears, nobody likes) and win our hearts once again just in time for a new TV show. I bet the actress playing her now is happy she doesn’t have to squeeze into the old costume.

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This month I’ve decided to focus on those cracking tunes that won’t leave your head. The ones that you end up singing in the shower without even realising it. TV shows and films have had some great belting tunes over the years, but which is your favourite?

STAR WARS

Have you heard of it? It’s kind of a big deal. There is this big black guy with a deep voice who hurts people. But his son is this whiny blonde kid who wants to kill him. Then there is a giant hairy thing and a little green thing who help him out. And this gay robot couple who follow them everywhere. Oh yeah and Han Solo. He’s a bad-ass. But most of all it has this great theme tune. BAH-BAH-Bububu-BAH-BAH-bububu-BAH-BAH-bububu-BAAAAAAAAAAAH!

SUPERMAN

Can he avenge his fellow Kryptonian’s brutal defeat last month at the hands of Wonder Woman? They say this film was cursed because of the fate of the actors in the movie, Margot Kidder became diagnosed as bipolar and Christopher Reeve famously became paralysed from the neck down… I was going to write some sort of “but hey the theme tune rocked, am I right?” end to that paragraph but I just depressed myself. Sorry.

INDIANA JONES

Did you ever find yourself running for a bus and singing this song? Or jumping over the gate in your garden while pretending you were being chased by a giant boulder and singing this song? What do you mean that would be stupid? Yes, well, I obviously haven’t done it myself. That wouldn’t be cool… but… you see… DAH-DUH-DAH-DAAAAH duh-di-duhhhhhhh DAH-DAH-DAH-DAAAAAAAH DUUUH-DI-DUH-DUH-DUH!

THE A-TEAM

I pity the foo’! Huh! I ain’t gettin’ on no damn plane! Huh! You a sucker! Huh! Say your prayers and eat your vitamins. No, wait, that last one was Hulk Hogan, nevermind. Anyway, if you lived in the 80s you watched The A-Team. And while the number of people killed was low, the rockingness of the theme tune was very high indeed. You’d be lying if you said the song wasn’t already in your head as soon as you read the name.

THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR

It’s hard to imagine a time before Will Smith was Will Smith but when he was The Fresh Prince there was a little bit of magic about him. He had a credible music career, for one. However, he was also the victim of playground bullying. Luckily, he had an uncle and auntie in a nice area who were able to take the troubled teen in. The theme tune to this hard hitting factual documentary was pretty good, even if he couldn’t pronounce “mirror”.

BATMAN

Dananananananananananananananananana BATMAN! dananananananana BATMAN! dananananananana BATMAN! BATMAN! BATMAN! DananananananananaNA! BATMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

… I rest my case.

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So, now that you’ve had a good time singing along, you must choose. Which one will bring honor to it’s composer and which one will you fast forward through in the great DVD of our lives.

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