Lego Batman hits TODAY!

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I'm cheap, and very rarely buy games at full price upon release, but for this I'll make the exception. Andrew and I have had countless hours of fun with Lego Star Wars, and this is BATMAN, which we are both obsessed with. So on my lunch break, I'll be picking it up for the Wii. The commercials look fantastic. Anyone else?

Chris

Not Cheap Chris. . . .it's being SMART. . .or another word for it. . . SELECTIVE!

I am exactly the same. . . .I also decided when I saw this yesterday, that it might be time to make an exception! On the PSP (playStationPortable) for us. . . unless I see it on the PS2, but I saw it for PSP yesterday and that is a lot easier for the kids to take and play with them anywhere!

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I have been stuck into the Star Wars ones, and more recently the Indiana Jones Lego. I have Batman on my watchlist ... have been trying to resist the temptation. Sheesh I hate trying to save. Look forward to hearing what you think of the Batman one.

[fallensaviour]

What Day ?
The Boy gets his on the 12th. So it's only 2 weeks out.

My gets his on the 29th...

[mitchedwards]

So is the game worth the money? Any reviews

[Earth 2 Chris]

If you like Batman, and the Lego Star Wars games, you'll love this. The boy and I just played the first two levels, but already we are hooked. Play is very similar to the Lego SW games (I don't have the Indy game yet, so I can't comment on the similarities there). Lots of fun, and just like the SW games, tons of play value since you can play each level as hero or villain, and go back and play freeplay for access to more cool stuff and all the characters and suits you pick up. The different suits for Batman and Robin is neat, and kind of legitimizes the last 20 years of weird Batman action figure variants.

The only minor gripe I had was getting used to using the Wii remote and nunchuk here. I have both SW games on Gamecube, and we still play them on Wii with the old GC controllers. But that's a minor gripe, and one I'm quickly getting over.

I was pleasantly surprised by the soundtrack (I won't spoil you on that) and the obscure villains that made it into the opening of the game. Don't forget that the McDonald's toys have "cheat codes" somewhere on the sculpts that you can plug into the Batcomputer for extra goodies. We haven't tried that yet, but will soon.

Chris

[Riffster]

here's some codes
rdt637
xwp645
bjh782

[AJJ]

Still waiting for the release in the UK. We don't get it until October 10th,but I'm planning on getting it on release day.

If you pre-order it from play.com they will sent a code to unlock The Jokers Van.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Anyone had trouble with the codes from the McDonald's toys on Wii? It won't accept any I've tried so far. Not real tore up about it, but just curious.

Chris

[Riffster]

they've all worked for me

[Captain]

I just picked it up the other day. Maybe it's because I've recently finished the very similar Star Wars game, and just finished up the almost exactly the same Indy game...but this game just isnt doing it for me. It's ok, just kinda dull. I'll let it sit for a while and come back to it...maybe just lego-ed out?

One thing that really irks me is the little inbetween scenes are done as page art, instead of animated (at least on the Nintendo DS game?).I know its meant to emulate the pages of a comic book...but I would rather see them acted out like the Indy game....(c'mon, who didnt laugh when Belloq crapped himself when the ghosts appeared?).