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LEGO: The Hobbit Review
Another massive Warner Brother film equals to another massive LEGO game and this time it’s LEGO: The Hobbit. Sadly, once again, if you’ve played a LEGO game before then you’ve played them all.
LEGO: The Hobbit takes you through the famous world that you may have seen in the films. Great looking locations such as caves and rolling hills and the very well played out battle-scenes. Apart from this, this is the same as every other LEGO game.
LEGO games are becoming the new FIFA and Call of Duty in the gaming world. They consist of the same thing in-and-out apart from very slight changes that are sometimes unnoticeable.
The biggest change here is the title. Everything plays the same, you still collect LEGO pieces, change characters and laugh a little at the cut-scenes, but that’s it, again!
Playing as pretty much every character from the films, you will travel the lands to stop an enemy from ruining a world etc etc. On the way you will encounter simple puzzles as well as puzzles that you will be unable to access until a later time when you have unlocked the character with the required skill. This means lots of back-tracking and re-playability, but only if you can stomach the repetitiveness that is yet again in this LEGO title.
Being a dwarf (the masters of crafting), you’ll find yourself at an anvil quite often trying to create a piece from items collected on your travels. Once you have all the pieces required you will have to press a button-sequence (sort of like PaRappa the Rapper) and boom, you have a key or other “use once item”. It’s not fun and it adds hardly anything other than more pointless gameplay that slows down the pace even further.
As great as the story is, you can’t take too much in due to the lack of any real and thorough dialogue/narration. This is always something that ruins a LEGO game for me as well as the other annoyances that they come with. Constantly trying to create a silent film that is expressed mainly through actions and face expressions, LEGO games often feel half-arsed. And it’s the same here.
All of the areas that you travel to look great and are brilliantly designed. You will see deep and dark caves, brutal battles and strange beings. This is a good thing because you’ll need a distraction to try and forget how bored you’re feeling.
The best part of LEGO: The Hobbit is the soundtrack due to its flutes singing natural and subtle tones with happy beats and united vibes. Maybe this is the best bit to me because I love this type of music, but with everything else the game lacks, it makes up for it here.
LEGO: The Hobbit is just another mediocre LEGO game that changes nothing apart from the setting and characters. If you’re a fan of the Hobbit films then I’m sure you’ll have fun. Apart from that, I wouldn’t bother with it.
5/10
Review By Wicket2961
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