10 - Lego Batman: Das Videospiel (Xbox 360)https://vgcollect.com/item/285287Hardware: Xbox 360
Playtime: about 32 hoursAfter finishing
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Nintendo Wii a few weeks ago, I kind of felt the urge to play through another Lego game that I have in my collection:
Lego Batman: The Videogame. This time, on my mostly unused Xbox 360 … German version as always.
Lego Batman: The Videogame marks the 4th Lego Game developed by Traveller's Tales (Tt) and the 43rd Lego game in general (I tried to research and quote a total number of Lego games in my 8th review this year about Lego Star Wars). It was released on October 10th 2008 by publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. About that time, Batman-Lego was quite popular and even Lego Batman movies were released in theaters and saw reasonable success.
As for the game's story, it is divided into to main storylines with three chapters each. There's the main 'hero' storyline starring Batman and Robin beating either The Riddler, The Penguin or The Joker in 3 different chapters, which are again divided into 5 stages, some vehicle-based. And then there's the 'villain' storyline that let's you play the 3 different chapters from the villains' perspective, which is a real exciting twist in presentation.
Regarding basic gameplay in
Lego Batman: The Videogame, I'll refer to my before mentioned review on Lego Star Wars, as - what a surprise - this Tt-developed Lego game plays itself just as every other Tt-developed Lego game.
The hubs from where you enter the different chapters and stages are either the famous Batcave for the heroes or the infamous Arkham Asylum for the villains. The typical, mostly repetitive Tt replay-rewarding gameplay is sometimes interrupted by fast vehicle-stages in which you either board a car, a boat or an aircraft - those seem to be the stages most fun to me, actually. Especially the Batwing-stage against Scarecrow.
Graphically the game exactly follows the dark and gloomy atmosphere this franchise commands. Lego games' graphics are fine, I suggest - nothing extraordinary here.
I don't feel much superhero-stuff, but I have fond memories of watching the Batman animated series back in the mid-90s and always was a fan of this not so super- but more authentic hero with mortal abilities, trauma and everything. And not many superhero-franchises offer villains as wicked and interesting as the Batman-universe. So of course I am a fan of this game's music, which is taken directly from the TV-series and theatre movies.
To round it up, I still enjoyed playing this game, but as with Lego Star Wars, mostly for the franchise presented.
So there we go, I managed to finish 10 games so far in 2026 and this one was the very 1st on my xBox 360!
On to the next one...
