LEGO Batman: The Videogame (PC)
 RRP £24.99 Lowest New Price £14.67 
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To Be Announced Warner Bros. Interactive Release date: Friday 10th of October 2008 |
RRP: £24.99
If you can overcome the bugs its great and funny too
Review date: 2009-01-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
Like Lego Indy this has its bugs on AMD dual core processors, a fix if you just see a black screen is while its loading up change the LEGOBatman.exe affinity in task manager to core 1 only (right click LEGOBatman.exe in task manager and select SET AFFINITY and untick CPU 0, and the game should then load up). Although I never had these problems with Lego Star Wars.
Additionally some sections are not completable if your in game resolution is above 800x600 (press ESC and change in the OPTIONS menu during play), like at the end of Penguin's Lair when in higher resolution the penguins don't reach their targets. Using both these solutions you can play the game all the way through easily.
Unfortunately its a game designed for consoles,like most games today, and so has these issues on PCs. However its a great fun game and is full of nice touches and humor.
Reviews
KER-POW!
Review date: 2008-10-27 Rating: 6 out of 10
Having played the previous Lego series of games this one held few surprises. It's good to see the developers branching out with their own original stories, the missions here are not tied to any of the films. I played through this with my 5 year old boy and we both loved it. He's now going back over the levels looking for all the unlockables.
My main criticism is that it can get a bit repetitive, the vehicle sections are a little on the frustrating side and sometimes the solutions to the puzzles basically mean smashing everying in site in the hope that a pile of bricks will be left behind to build a device to progress the story.
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the game but was looking for a bit more of an advance from previous efforts.
Great Fun
Review date: 2008-10-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
I have played star wars and Indiana jones with both my kids and have to say I like this game too. My children are 6 & 7 and although some tasks/puzzles are a bit tricky for them we mostly get there in the end. We have windows xp on our PC and it loaded without a hitch and was straightforward for a non techno "mum" to cope with. There are hours of game play and the children really like the fact there are story lines from the heroes and villains perspectives.
Dosn't work with vista ultimate
Review date: 2008-10-14 Rating: 2 out of 10
Loads up into first mission but then keeps crashing. There is no support on the software developers website so basically tough luck if it dosn't work I will be returning mine for a full refund in next few days.
What's Next?
Review date: 2008-10-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
Both the Lego Star Wars went down exceptionally well with my kids, both on the PC and and the Gamecube. But the 2nd Star Wars game crashes on 98.5% without fail.
Indiana Jones was a triumph, but gave terrible headaches getting it to work at first, so I loaded up this on the kid's PC hoping it would work. And it does, and so far no issues, and it is a gem!
Using the Danny Elfman music from the Tim Burton Batman films, there is a briliant title sequence showing the bad guys escaping from the Asylum, and then it is up to you, Batman, and Robin to track them down. As with the others, the beauty is that the game is not finished when you complete every level. There is Freeplay mode where you can go back using any character you have unlocked to reach those parts you could not get to.
A triumph for my kids, and for me! Lots of fun and some great gags.
Next for me? Lego James Bond please!!!
Product Details/Specifications
Recording label: Warner Bros. Interactive
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Interactive
EAN: 5051600222830
Binding: Video Game
Release date: 2008-10-10
Audience rating: To Be Announced
Platform: Windows Vista
Brand: Warner Bros. Interactive
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