The LEGO Movie Videogame [Essentials]

For this title all the environments are also made out of LEGO bricks, a first for the series, and LEGO itself is also the primary source material instead of adapting a different franchise to the LEGO style.

The game follows the plot of the film closely and contains fragments from the film as cut-scenes.

It starts with the player controlling the wizard Vitruvius as he attempts to defend his super weapon The Kragle against Lord Business and his robot minions.

He is unsuccessful but tells Lord Business about the prophecy that one day the special one, a master builder, will stand up with the piece of resistance that holds the power to disarm The Kragle.

The game then moves forward more than eight years to the protagonist Emmet Brickowski, an ordinary construction worker who will accidentally find the piece of resistance.

The game retains the basic gameplay from the series where the character can be navigated through a 3D environment and fight or destroy almost anything.

Navigation requires a lot of platform jumping and climbing, and there are many small environment based puzzles sometimes requiring a specific ability.

It is possible and needed to switch between the provided characters (often up to eight in a single level) to have them work together and offline cooperative gameplay is also supported.

Eventually almost one hundred characters can be unlocked including Gandalf, Batman, Superman, Cleopatra and Abraham Lincoln.

Emmet and the female master builder Wildstyle are the most prominent characters, but many more are controlled during the levels.

Entirely new is the introduction of two character types: master builders and regular builders.

As the environments now consist entirely out of LEGO bricks, builders can manipulate them.

The LEGO Movie Videogame [Essentials] for PlayStation 3 is currently worth €13.29 loose. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

The LEGO Movie Videogame [Essentials] has only a handful of tracked market sales, suggesting relative scarcity compared to more common PlayStation 3 titles.

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