Review game Lego City Undercover

Since the invention of the cubes of the designer, in 1949, the same name of the Danish company managed to win the love of hundreds of millions of children around the world. The toy Empire has long gone beyond children's stores, starting to develop video games and create animated feature films based . One such game was Lego City Undercover, originally released in 2013 for the Nintendo Wii U. this year the game was re-released for multiple new platforms, which is why I would like to work with you to refresh your memories of this exciting action.

For the development of the game answered, a small British Studio TT Fusion, which since 2007 only deals that produces Lego-games based on various popular films. They have created a series of Lego Star Wars, Lego Harry Potter, Lego Batman and other "cube hits." This time they had to make a game out of a series of designers Lego City, manufactured by the Danish company since 2005. Designers these as not difficult to guess include buildings, equipment, and characters directly related to urban life. Here you and a police station, and the airport, all kinds of vehicles, construction sites, coast guard, prison and even its own spaceport. But as it all turned into an exciting video game? The answer was obvious: you need to collect all of this game sandbox like Grand Theft Auto where the player could entertain yourself indefinitely while performing the story missions and saydkvesty.

Lego City Undercover tells the story of a COP chase McCain who returns to his hometown and learns that escape from prison a dangerous offender — Mad Rex. It chase at the time, disarmed and put that bandit in jail, and now he can once again get on his trail, while the villain is not breaking anything. Here it is necessary a little digression. In 2013, for the handheld console Nintendo 3DS was released prequel to the original game called Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins. It told us about the process of making a chase McCain from green rookie COP to seasoned Pro, as well as his confrontation with Rex. In principle, without an introduction, it is possible to play. However, if you are really interested – you can read this prequel.

The Game is a open world sandbox where you can go where your heart desires. But with one caveat. Some buildings and locations will be blocked until then, until you master certain skills. The main character as you progress will discover a new "costumes", perevoploschatsya it to police, miner, robber, astronaut and representatives of other professions. Each new role is interesting not only in terms of appearance chase, but also useful from the point of view of his talents. A miner with a pick is able to break large stone boulders and skillfully managed with dynamite, and the robber is able to open locked doors and find the codes to the safes. Police able to arrest criminals and use your scanner (made in the form of a gamepad from the Wii U) to search for evidence. Each role allows you to enter a new world of Lego City, it therefore can hardly be considered 100% open from the outset.

Story missions is quite interesting. For example, you have to infiltrate an impregnable prison on the island, "Albatross", to hunt down and neutralize the gang of clowns robs a Bank while undercover to ingratiate himself to the boss of the mafia and much, much more. I'm very amused by the fact that the game is quite cleverly sent to numerous popular films and television series. For example, being in prison, you probably know the scene from "Shawshank redemption", and while learning martial arts and the local kung fu master (part time – a good plumber, who not only clears the pipes, but also chakra) it's hard to escape the Association with "Matrix". The plot is really cheerful and quickly draws you into the whirlpool of charming madness that prevails in Lego City Undercover.

With a sense of humor in the game, the situation is contradictory, because for the most part he is very childish and naive. On the other hand, it should be understood that the game was created with an emphasis on family time, not for the gamers who bring the fun in the spirit of the GTA series of games with an age rating of 18+. For kids Lego City Undercover fits just perfect! And the parents will be calmer, because there are no drugs, bloody murders, the girls of easy virtue, but there is tons of car chases, bright duels with opponents, hilarious dialogues and other fun. Sometimes the game is still able to sincerely cheer an adult, Yes, but she does it not as often as I personally would like. However, I was very pleased that here is reduced to minimum all the vulgarity and toilet humor.

From version games 2017 can be noted appeared in her co-op mode for two players. In the case of the console the important thing is that its screen is used as portable television. Put it on the table along with a friend in Split Screen mode fighting crime. However, there is a fly in the ointment in all this joy: to play together, you will need to purchase another set of controllers Joy-Con or Pro Controller. This is not some Mario Kart, so there is one "jolkona" do not work. Well, many Nintendo owners Switch extra controller already bought, so I don't think it will be for someone with a serious problem.

Otherwise, the new version of the game is no different from the original four years ago. No new content, no seriously toned graphic component. Although some here need graphics if we are talking about cubes and square men? The game looks and feels pretty good. Not enough to me personally is that possible to scan and criminals listen through the screen of the Wii U controller, which the player could turn around. Now all this is done with the analog sticks. When Nintendo stuck Switch in the docking station, the game gives an honest resolution of 1080p and stable framerate, but in portable mode, all is far less rosy. Frame rate drops dramatically, which makes the gameplay jerky and uncomfortable. Another annoying aspect of the game are unbearably long loading screens. Sometimes you have to wait a whole minute before the game loads into memory console all the necessary assets. And I just can't remain silent about the terrible Russian voice acting: the actors are not trying to give even 50%, which destroys the whole atmosphere of the festival.

The game features 100 different types of vehicles including various cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats and even helicopters. Each of them player will be able to ride on the roads of Lego City, fly, or swim. The size of the open world, of course, not as huge as the legislators of the genre, but it is still quite spacious and filled with interesting places. All you happen to visit 22 different locations, linked together into a single map. The game is completely missing the shootout due to the fact that the developers deliberately did not add to the gameplay of a firearm. But chase McCain is "cocomat" shooting hooks and allowing to confuse the enemies by hand and foot with a rope, or climbing on high buildings.

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• Very funny references to famous films.
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• Sometimes a good humor without vulgarity and dirt.
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• Local co-op mode for two.
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• a Low barrier to entry for new players.
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• Perfect alternative to GTA for kids.

One of the best video game in the Lego series.

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• the Game is inexcusably slow in portable mode.
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• To co-op will have to buy the controller(s).
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• Incredibly long loading screens.

The Russian voice acting badly.

Lego City Undercover is a good and fun alternative to GTA for kids and their parents. The developers did not bother and add to the remaster with new content, but gave the players the possibility of cooperative transmission. Picture seriously spoil disgusting game optimization in portable mode, Nintendo Switch, unbearable long screens downloads and poor quality of the Russian voice. I still have a glimmer of hope that the game can be optimized, but would the developers spend their time and energy. Despite this, Lego City Undercover is one of the most prominent representatives of the Lego games and is highly recommended to familiarize fans of the franchise. I put the game 6 out of 10....