LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
About the Game
Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an action game, reuniting about one hundred and a half Marvel heroes and villains coming from several Marvel franchises, having players control the good ones in order to save the Earth from a team of the vicious (headed by Galactus, also named as The Devourer of the Worlds); all in the fashion of LEGO adventures blocky cartoonish visual style and gameplay. Game world consists of Manhattan as explorable open world and game's hub — including known Marvel locales such as the Marvel HQ — plus a series of self-standing story mode levels located beyond Earth, in the worlds of Asgard, Bifrost, and Asteroid M.
Story & Setting
Gold bricks can be found exploring Manhattan, completing side quests there, as well as story mode levels: by them, additional characters are unlocked as well as bonus levels.
Gameplay & Core Systems
Marvel-related buildings in New York can be entered, and for each of them there is a storyline, narrated by Deadpool. Other collectibles are Minikits, Deadpool bricks (by which some power-ups and extra features are obtained). They all have their own Super Powers, regarding possibility of interaction with the environment, and Super Moves, regarding how enemies can be beaten. With two players, one of the two players can use GamePad's display, and the other the display, so avoiding split screen.
Standout Features
- Marvel-related buildings in New York can be entered, and for each of them there is a storyline, narrated by Deadpool.
- Gold bricks can be found exploring Manhattan, completing side quests there, as well as story mode levels: by them, additional characters are unlocked as well as bonus levels.
- Other collectibles are Minikits, Deadpool bricks (by which some power-ups and extra features are obtained).
- They all have their own Super Powers, regarding possibility of interaction with the environment, and Super Moves, regarding how enemies can be beaten.
- With two players, one of the two players can use GamePad's display, and the other the display, so avoiding split screen.
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an action game, reuniting about one hundred and a half Marvel heroes and villains coming from several Marvel franchises, having players control the good ones in order to save the Earth from a team of the vicious (headed by Galactus, also named as The Devourer of the Worlds); all in the fashion of LEGO adventures blocky cartoonish visual style and gameplay.
- Game world consists of Manhattan as explorable open world and game's hub — including known Marvel locales such as the Marvel HQ — plus a series of self-standing story mode levels located beyond Earth, in the worlds of Asgard, Bifrost, and Asteroid M.
Modes & Ways to Play
Gold bricks can be found exploring Manhattan, completing side quests there, as well as story mode levels: by them, additional characters are unlocked as well as bonus levels. With two players, one of the two players can use GamePad's display, and the other the display, so avoiding split screen.
Player support includes Same/Split-Screen and Co-Op.
Presentation & Atmosphere
Some characters are available through purchase of the Super Pack and Asgard Pack DLCs (the former ones, taken from Marvel's film Thor: The Dark World were available as pre-order bonus, also), purchasable on Xbox LIVE, PS Store and PC. They all have their own Super Powers, regarding possibility of interaction with the environment, and Super Moves, regarding how enemies can be beaten.
