Review for LEGO The Incredibles. Game for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 15/06/2018
It's been over ten years since TT Fusion first brought a game based on Lego bricks to our consoles, and the house has rarely deviated from that format since then. Their latest creation, based on the recently released Pixar films of The Incredibles, is certainly no exception, but it does have a few different elements to the canon of their video games. Here is our review of LEGO: The Incredibles.
LEGO: The Incredibles, available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch, puts the player in the plastic role of the protagonists of the homonymous film dated 2004 and its recent and expected sequel, introducing some interesting changes in the franchise but that to many they could make your nose turn up a little. In fact, the adventure begins at the end of the first film, while our heroes prepare for the clash with the Miner, and continues narrating the events of the second and most recent chapter of the saga. From the first seconds you find yourself catapulted into the midst of fights and puzzles to solve, and the game makes no mystery of its simplicity: the combat and interaction system is in fact the classic one of all the games in the LEGO series, including the impossibility to do game over and the single attack button, except for very few changes due to the powers of the individual characters.
A gameplay we are used to but that can easily entertain, especially if combined with the comedy that characterizes this videogame series, capable of playing down the events that you go to live sometimes too effectively. Continuing and completing the plot, it is then possible to embark on a second adventure, which instead tells the events of the first film. A particular choice by TT, but understandable given the proximity to the release of the film itself. All this is accompanied by a complete support of the Spanish language, with a dubbing that, although it drops in quality during some dialogues of the secondary missions, is instead of a level comparable to that of the film during the scenes of the main game plot.
In between missions, you can also freely explore the city, carrying out secondary missions, facing waves of criminals or rescuing civilians, while playing the role of your favorite character. The number of playable characters is in fact very high, as always in the games of TT Fusion, but surprisingly it is not limited to our friends who are superheroes or super villains: it will in fact be possible to take control of many characters from numerous other works of Pixar, some of which absolutely unexpected like the little fish Dory, one of the very first to be unlocked through exploration.
Exploration that, like any other phase of the game, can also be experienced in a local co-op with a friend, playing on a split screen. The experience, unfortunately, is not the best: the vertically cropped view and a camera that doesn't always perform optimally make some sections of the game annoying if not downright frustrating, cutting a player out of their own half of the screen or causing , albeit rarely, drops in the framerate due to too many objects destroyed.
Basically, the title will not fail to amuse those who have always been fans of Lego games while not presenting all the originality that characterizes this series, partly also due to the repetition of the missions. These in fact often boil down to the collection of a certain number of Incredible Bricks necessary for the construction of something that will allow you to advance in the level. LEGO: The Incredibles is not a bad game, presenting itself cheerful and colorful, combining extreme ease in the game phases with a certain commitment to the search for collectibles, but it suffers from the now dated mechanics that characterize its entire saga.
► LEGO The Incredibles is a Sliding-Puzzle Beat 'em up game published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 15/06/2018
