![]() (A notable omission from the sequel are the X-Men, present in the first game but missing here.)ĭollar for dollar, Super Heroes 2 offers a staggering array of content. And that’s before you get to all of the supervillains - each promised a slice of the pie by Kang - you’ll battle along the way. There’s the Avengers, the Inhumans, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and others including Spider-Gwen (from a reality where Gwen Stacey was bitten by the spider), Iron Duck (Howard the Duck in Iron Man’s armor), and a cowboy Captain America. It’s up to Marvel’s wealth of characters - hundreds of them - to fight back against Kang. Texas to Ban Trans College Athletes from Women’s Sports With the recently released Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 ( ) looking to largely replicate that formula, what could go wrong? Quite a lot. It offered players a wealth of classic Marvel characters - some known, others requiring a Google search for less diehard fans - and a big, original storyline to play through. The first Lego Marvel Super Heroes landed on the good side of that scale. In the worst, lazy repetition and needless excess conspire to bloat the whole thing into a barely tolerable slog ( Lego Marvel’s Avengers ). In the best Lego titles, the simplified gameplay melds with superior storytelling to create a fun twist on a well-known property ( Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens ). Those two worlds, the young and the older, frequently mash against one another. There’s pop culture references galore, blocky remakes of mature properties like Star Wars and Jurassic Park, and some of the gameplay tropes - advanced puzzling and collectibles gathering - associated with older gaming audiences. And yet, when you look back at some of the most successful titles in the franchise, it’s obvious that they’re also making them for adults. Their blend of simplified gameplay, bright graphics, and humor-laced storylines seem tailor-made to appeal to burgeoning young gamers. The Lego games have always held a peculiar position in the world of gaming.
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