Silver brick in your way? Use Green Goblins explosives to blow them up. Gold brick barring your path? Use Iron Man’s lasers to melt them. It’s as “smash everything in sight and collect all the studs” as any title before it and for the most part, the game is only as deep as using the right character for the situation. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 plays predominantly how you’d expect if you’ve ever played a LEGO game before. The massive amount of optional hub content is just as fun as the main story missions because the writing is intelligent and humorous. Whether it’s the enemy troops dancing along to “Come And Get Your Love” while Star Lord listens along on his headphones, when you help a superhero chef called “Iron Pan” to cook a turkey to perfection or when you’re helping Taserface to find a less ridiculous name, it’s a game that has it’s tongue firmly pressed into its cheek. What’s obvious after playing just a small chunk of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is that the writers and designers had a lot of fun creating it and that shines through in the game itself. The various sources of inspiration from comic books, movies, the other games, the meta surrounding Marvel and some original creations too make for a lovely lattice of characters and events. Elsewhere, this game shines a spotlight on Marvel comic characters that haven’t previously had a chance to shine in a video game like Kid Colt in the Wild West, The various Black Knights of Medieval England and Horus in Egypt. Various versions of Captain America, Miss Marvel, Iron Man, Spidey and a myriad of famous Marvel characters team up to take on Kang. While the plot of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is entirely original, it riffs on the most memorable locations and events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in their own unique LEGO slapstick fashion. It’s a neat little introduction that sets the comedic tone for the rest of the game. Using these powers, Kang pulls chunks of various realities together to form the city of “Chronopolis” which forms the main hub for the game. Peter Quill, Groot and company dutifully oblige and they discover that Kang isn’t playing fair by using time manipulation to aide him in his fight. It’s all explained very clearly in the game who is who and what they’re doing. The game begins with Kang The Conqueror attacking Xandar from his giant sword-shaped space ship and Nova Prime calling out to the Guardians of the Galaxy for help – Don’t worry if that sounded like I had started speaking in tongues.
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