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Rating from yackers1 4 Stars ()

Advantages Good graphics, good theme

Disadvantages Awful music, easy, repetitive

Pre-amble
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Lego Batman is a Warner Brothers game and is an addition to their Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones games.

The game is designed for ages 7+, as detailed on the box. My 5 year old nephew has played the game, and whilst he managed with most of it, there were some puzzles where he needed a bit of help. Personally, I think some 7 year olds would struggle with parts of this game.

I have been lucky enough to be sent this game from a friend who lives in the good old USA. The official UK release date for Lego Batman is 10 October 2008 and it is available for pre-order through many specialized computer game retailers and other online shops.

Prices for the game vary, and a sample of prices I have found (excluding P&P) are as follows:

1) Lovefilm shop - £17.93
2) Play.com - £17.99
3) Argos - £19.99
4) Times2scale - £20.99
5) ShopTo.Net - £22.99

The differential in prices is not huge, although based on previous experience, I suspect that retailers offering the game at a lower price will be charging more postage and packaging so the end price will be around the same across all retailers. I cannot confirm this since I have not looked in to the postage costs - since I have no need to.

The above represents a small number of suppliers and I am sure that there are loads more if you trawl through the internet.

Story Line
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In summary, the criminals of Gotham City have broken out of Arkham Asylum and are set to wreak havoc. It is the "dynamic duos" job to go and defeat them all.

The plot of each criminal is difficult to establish since the story develops as you progress through the game via a cartoon strip.

The cartoon strip is very detailed and the picture quality is great but it doesn't give too much away as there are no speech bubbles on the pictures or spoken words. The only audio is the Batman music which is played on the options screen of the Batman DVD.

All of Gotham City's criminals appear in the game including The Riddler, The Joker, Penguin, Clay Face, Cat Woman, Killer Croc, Two Face, Scare Crow etc and all have got to be defeated.

Playing the game
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The game commences in the Bat Cave - where you can change the look of your character, look at game stats etc.

From the Bat Cave the dynamic Duo can venture in to the Wayne Manor building in order to collect gold and silver coins (like in most platform games) in order to accumulate 'Stud' points. I have yet to work out whether the stud points can be exchanged for anything or not. Other than running around, collecting coins and smashing up furniture and paintings (why smash up your own house??) to reveal further coins there is nothing else to do in the Wayne Manor - there are no puzzles to solve or criminals to kill. This seems like a bit of a waste to me.

There are 3 chapters to complete with the head criminal being the Riddler, the Penguine and the Joker respectively. I won't divulge any more than this as I don't want to ruin the game for any buyers.

On the Streets of Gotham the game heats up but only a little bit.

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