You’ll need to find hidden Stan Lees and to hunt down Gold Bricks. You’ll destroy the environment for studs and to reveal hidden building prompts to progress.
Yet no matter who you choose, the game is still like every other LEGO game. This means you can recreate Logan, Deadpool, or any number of the heroes missing in action. It’s much more in-depth this time around, and you can even assign individual weapons, moves, and powers to your creations. Luckily, you can somewhat bypass this with the custom character creation tool. Ironically, while the roster is a testament to Marvel’s huge and varied cast, it also drives home how integral Fox’s properties have become. Yup, Marvel’s feud with 20th Century Fox is still on-going, which means no X-Men, Deadpool, or even the Fantastic Four, much less anybody remotely connected to them. Seeing all of those characters makes the omission of Fox-licensed heroes even more glaring. Nearly everybody in the game is unlockable as a playable character, even bosses like Kang or MODOK. (Hint: Despite the name, he’s not a member of the inter-dimensional Captain Britain Corps.) There are also lesser known characters such as Hit Monkey and the Winter Guard, something that is very much appreciated. I consider myself a hardcore Marvel fan, but even I found myself wondering where Captain Avalon came from. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 more than makes up for that with the sheer number of playable characters. However, their twist of adding Battleworld doesn’t serve a point nor does it add anything to the gameplay. It’s pretty much the basis for the ‘Infinity Gauntlet’ and ‘Infinity War’ crossover events of the ‘80s. Seeing the Avengers recruit the entire Marvel Universe to fight a greater threat isn’t new. She offers the player cheats and upgrades, and also has secret Pink Bricks missions that are unlocked depending on your progression with the side missions and other secondary objectives. Gwenpool is also here, taking over Deadpool as the game’s fourth-wall-breaking character. Here, the Avengers lead the charge against Kang, traversing the disparate regions and gathering allies to try and find a way to return everything to normal. Do we really want to venture to Egypt or regular old Manhattan? Why not give us more eclectic places such as the Blue Area of the Moon or the Cancerverse?Īvengers Mansion, the very same one from the ‘90s and early ‘00s, serves as the focal point of the heroic resistance. Some places are cool, like Post-Ragnarok Asgard and Noir New York City (missed opportunity not calling it “Noir York City”), but others are completely boring by comparison. The game’s depiction, however, is a tad underwhelming. If you’ve read the recent ‘Secret Wars: Battleworld’ Marvel event, where God Doom rules all that’s left of reality, you’ll find that Chronopolis shares more than a passing resemblance to Doom’s world.
They then rush to Earth to warn the Avengers, only to discover that they too have been caught up in Kang’s scheme, teleported along with large portions of Manhattan.Īpparently, Kang has been cherry picking specific places and times to meld into an image of his perfect city, Chronopolis. The Guardians arrive just in time to witness Kang teleporting both himself and a significant chunk of the Nova Corps away. Weirdly, the developers chose to bash together elements of the 616 Marvel Universe with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Īnyway, the Nova Corps on Xandar are under assault by Kang the Conqueror, leading aboard his massive Damocles Base. Instead of being decimated like in the comics, the Nova Corps we see in the game are alive and well, led by Nova Prime – no, not Richard Rider, but the woman from the movies. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 starts with the Guardians of the Galaxy answering a distress call from the Nova Corps. It proved that a Traveller’s Tales game could still innovate given the chance, so, by all accounts, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 should have been a glorious sequel. It mixed fun open-world gameplay with linear stages, and had a cast of characters that ran the gamut from the Fantastic Four to the X-Men and the Avengers. The first LEGO Marvel game was like a breath of fresh air for a stagnating series.
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