Review: LEGO Marvel’s Avengers (PS4)

Avengers Assemble! The best-selling LEGO MARVEL videogame franchise returns with a new action-packed, Super Hero adventure.

Pros:

• Swwet HD graphics.
• Classic familiar control scheme.
• New font! Kind of a big deal in LEGO games. No matter what people say a new font is big news!’
• Gameplay is the same as it has always been. Collect studs, Build things and fight bad guys. A few new level gimmicks have been added and action scene slow mo is a now standard in the game.
• Fighting has changed somewhat. You can now perform finishing moves, slow mo action scenes and also team up with any partner and do special tag team moves.
• Uses voice clips from the films to keep it authentic.
• Takes in both Avenger films with a few filler levels from other films.
• Full Platinum trophy.
• Constant checkpoints within the levels where you can save and continue.
• Split screen multiplayer. Camera can be fixed or dynamic so it moves around as you do.
• True Avenger is earned by filling the stud bar within a level. You earn a gold brick.
• Biggest roster of unlockable characters ever in a LEGO game.
• Ghost studs will show you where to go when you are in one of the many hub worlds.
• All gold brick and red brick mechanics are back. Red bricks change the game play like stud multiplier or gold brick locator.
• Free play unlcoks once you finish the level in story mode. One in free play you can freely change character and the story is not as intrusive and cut scenes can be skipped.
• In free play co op, Changing character only fills the player side of the screen.
• In between the story missions you get an almost mini hub world experience. You have to do set tasks to unlock the story level but there is no constraints or true avenger mechanic to deal with.
• Huge boss battles.
• Humour throughout.
• Very much a pick up and play type of game.
• Fast loading times.
• Main story is a solid 10 hour affair.

Cons:

• No online co op.
• Camera angles are terrible. Especially in co op. No matter what camera setting you have, At some point you will have it where one player will not be able to see what he/she is doing.
• Repetitive gameplay.
• Same quotes and lines get used by characters and it grates very quickly.
• Glitches such as falling through floors, Switches not activating and the such is still a common theme.
• Fighting now takes longer and is far more frustrating as they have enemies re spawn at a much fast rate.
• Possible to get stuck on what to do a lot more. The game isnt as fluid and clear on objectives as it used to be.