There's the occasional change in formula the barrel-riding river run, a helter-skelter dash with a constantly shifting perspective that keeps you on the move, is a lot more fun, but those more interesting set pieces are too rare.Ĭombat is fairly common, which is a shame because it remains a bit of a mess. The fight and build philosophy is solid enough, but it quickly becomes repetitive, especially in long levels like the tedious escape from Goblin Town.
The fight with the trolls from An Unexpected Journey sees you furiously creating catapults out of scattered junk, while Bilbo's riddle face-off with Gollum requires you to quickly build the answers. Scenes from the movies play out in a typically irreverent manner, with straight-face dialogue taken straight from the films undercut with that familiar LEGO brand of slapstick goofiness. Like in the second movie, the barrel sequence is preposterous fun Story mode meanwhile, takes the big set pieces from each film and plonks you right in the middle. Free-play allows you to choose from any character you've unlocked by collecting the gazillions of studs scattered around the game world. Like previous entries in the series, you've got two modes here, the main story and free-play.
LEGO The Hobbit is the latest in the seemingly endless franchise, a very, very loose adaptation of the first two films in the Peter Jackson Hobbit film trilogy. Because I'm a true professional, however, I'm going to dig a little deeper. If not for this website's stringent editing process and required world limits, I could do this review in one sentence it's another LEGO game.