which would have been the greater of two evils. The musical score and track list sounding off as you run through the levels brings back that immersion, and I specifically enjoyed the ancient bellow of the Asgardian soundtrack. The landscape of Thor’s home-world reminded me of the now decade old Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and it was great to be able to explore it this time around. _ “But LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is a step above its predecessors in its ability puts you in the shoes of the superheroes you love.” Asgard is a hub in the game, along with Stark Tower in Manhattan, although the latter is much larger in its scope. The meat of the game consists of combat sequences, similar to past LEGO titles, and unique puzzles, which touches on one of the problems.

The games ‘rules’ sometimes don’t make sense in that I was constantly puzzled on what to do next. When my objective was to solve a puzzle on the east side of an area, enemies would attack me from the left which I took as the developer directing me toward the way I was meant to go. This also hurts the pacing of the game when you come out of an awesome battle with a villain and then have to solve puzzle after puzzle. Even worse is when the game specifically puts you in constant non-combat scenarios where your entire objective is to solve puzzles. Now while the LEGO faithful might be used to this design philosophy, the pacing of the game would be better served if puzzles were inter-connected with the combat or if they were thrown at the player every so often instead of back to back to back.

On the actual combat front, Halo Reach style assassinations initiated with the press of a button trigger slick animations like Hulk’s infamous Loki smash or Captain America launching his shield right into the guts of Red Skull’s minions. It may be high time, almost a decade into TT Games’ LEGO cycle, to advance the hand to hand combat in a meaningful way as I always preferred to pull off a cool assassination instead of button mashing enemies to death. Even better, playing co-operatively only allows you to pull off crazier co-op combo assassinations that are incredibly gratifying. #Kanye west 808s and heartbreak zip hulk tvĬo-op players can also split up in the open world in a brilliant show of how far tech has come this generation.