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Lego Battles: All the awesome and none of the license!

Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley...Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Games and Technology
http://kotaku.com/5146084/wizards-pirates-and-aliens-unite-in-lego-battles
TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have teamed up once again to deliver an all-new Lego experience to the Nintendo DS, this time simply focusing on the toys themselves with Lego Battles.

Lego Battles is a game for the Nintendo DS that combines three popular Lego toy lines - Lego Castle, Lego Pirates and Lego Space - allowing players to create bases and customized squads in order to engage in more than 70 different levels worth of fierce block combat, or head-to-head via Nintendo DS wireless multi-card play. Players will mix and match units from all three Lego sets, resulting in epic confrontations the likes of which we've only dreamed about. A pirate ship filled with ninja versus a spaceship manned by wizards? It's the kind of stuff you'd find airbrushed on the side of a van 30 years ago.

“LEGO® Battles offers players the action-packed and humor-filled gameplay that make LEGO games great, along with the added bonus of linked multiplayer battles on DS,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games Publishing. “We are excited to introduce a new LEGO videogame experience to fans and young gamers and look forward to expanding upon the beloved toy lines.”

So the next Lego title from TT games isn't Lego Transformers. It's time to see if the Lego brand can stand on its own two blocking legs. Look for Lego Battles to erupt on the Nintendo DS this summer.


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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    FUCK.

    YES.

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    We can finally see who is more fierce and dangerous: Ninjas or Pirates! :shock:


    I can't wait for this game.

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  • lowlylowlycooklowlylowlycook Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Is there anything the DS can't do?

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Everything about this game points to it being a huge win and possibly the best lego game ever.

    Lego Space, Pirate, and Castle
    RTS style gameplay
    building castles/bases as well as forming a custom army
    online battles

    This game is going to be awesome.

    Oh and lowly...no, appearantly the DS can do anything and continues to own my life. :(

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  • Cameron_TalleyCameron_Talley Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    OMG! This is quite possibly a Day One Purchase for me.

    Classic Castle vs. Classic Space vs. Classic Pirates?

    FUCK YES!

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Oooooh, nice. I've been hoping for a Lego game that doesn't re-use the Lego Star Wars engine for the bazillionth time.

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  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    When they say "building castles", do they mean, like, actually building them with blocks?

    Please?

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Oooooh, nice. I've been hoping for a Lego game that doesn't re-use the Lego Star Wars engine for the bazillionth time.


    I agree, this sounds like a nice change of style. Plus them using the classic toy sets is touching my memories of buying some of these classic sets.

    I hope they allow you to build your bases from scratch. That would be pretty cool.

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  • Kai_SanKai_San Commonly known as Klineshrike! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Erm, those pics obviously arent from the game, so I wonder how its going to look on DS.

    This sounds like complete win, but the lack of information is making me skeptical. Am I the only one?

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  • JihadJesusJihadJesus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    SwashbucklerXX wrote: »
    When they say "building castles", do they mean, like, actually building them with blocks?

    Please?
    I'd buy two. Hell, I'd buy two if it was just a virtual box of legos. Also, there better be a 'tower defense' mode where you can build your castle, watch it get overrun, improve the design, and repeat - I spent WEEKS doing that with Legos as a kid, and if they bring that in handheld form I'll probably starve to death because I'll actually forget to eat.

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
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    This is from the DS, why couldn't the Lego pictures?

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I think we were talking about a game exactly like this in either the LEGO Indy or Batman thread.

    So yea, fucking win.

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  • CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Is it just me, or dose the Lego pirate chick in the second screenshot has cleavage?

    Boobs on a Lego = Awesome. That and Multiplayer castle building.

    Please bring this to Wii or PS3 or PC TT Games. I'll give you money.

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Sorry sir, you have no excuse to not own a DS....I thought it was a mandatory law nowadays. :|

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  • Cameron_TalleyCameron_Talley Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    CoJoeTheLawyer wrote: »
    Is it just me, or dose the Lego pirate chick in the second screenshot has cleavage?

    Boobs on a Lego = Awesome. That and Multiplayer castle building.

    Please bring this to Wii or PS3 or PC TT Games. I'll give you money.

    That's the new Pirate lego chick from the new Pirate sets, and yes, she does has cleavage.

    Lego's getting ready to release a new Space Police line, so I'm wondering if that's what they'll use for the space faction.

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Brainiac 8 wrote: »
    [IMG]http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/734/734413/final-fantasy-xii-revenant-wings-20060922042055651.jpg[/ IMG] This is from the DS, why couldn't the Lego pictures?[/img]

    Historically, the Lego games have had their cutscenes done in the game engine, and those shots seem to be somewhat beyond the 3D capabilities of the DS, which are more along the lines of
    lego-batman-the-videogame-20080611000653684_640w.jpg

    In any case, I don't think that the first image is literally from the DS since the resolution is too high, to say nothing of those giant Lego shots.

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I can't see the pictures because of work filtering (stupid Kotaku on Gawker which filter = porn), but this sounds like WIN in its purest form.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Son of a.... why can't this be on xbox? I mean, DS is ok, but WANT THIS IN XBOX MULTIPLAYER!

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    You never know ToyD, it might happen.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Holy shit! This sounds incredible.

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    I'm buying a DS.

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    I mean, like today.

    I'm going to take a shower and eat breakfast and then go to the store and buy a DS.

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  • ProxyProxy regular
    edited February 2009
    YES. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    DAMN

    HELL

    DS??!? I DON'T WANT TO BUY ONE RIGHT NOW

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  • Cameron_TalleyCameron_Talley Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Man, I thought everyone and their mother already had a DS....

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Cameron_Talley wrote: »
    Man, I thought everyone and their mother already had a DS....

    I had a Lite a while ago (right after Portrait of Ruin came out), but I was forced to sell it to make rent after I got laid off from the shitty job I had at the time.

    Ridge Racer on the bus was so awesome.

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    The DS didn't have Ridge Racer. o_O

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
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    Yeah it did.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Brainiac 8 wrote: »
    The DS didn't have Riiiiiiiiidgggge Racer! o_O

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Einhander wrote: »
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    Yeah it did.


    Intersting...I had no idea.


    I always thought it was a Sony owned IP.

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Namco owns it. Ridge Racer DS is actually a port of Ridge Racer 64. It's a lot closer to the original game that the PSP version is, but is not anywhere near as visceral.

    But we're sorta getting offtopic I guess.

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  • lowlylowlycooklowlylowlycook Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Ridge Racer is "officially" a Sony IP.

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  • Brainiac 8Brainiac 8 Don't call me Shirley... Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Offtopic or no, thanks for the info. :^:

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  • SirUltimosSirUltimos Don't talk, Rusty. Just paint. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Oh man oh man oh man!

    If they like you build your bases from scratch, like a virtual toybox full of Lego, I will buy the game just for that. Fuck the combat and the strategy and everything else, I just want to build gigantic castles with no limit of the pieces I own.

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    lowlylowlycook wrote: »
    Ridge Racer is "officially" a Sony IP.
    The Ridge Racer series has hit two Nintendo systems and the Xbox 360. R: Racing Evolution hit the GameCube and Xbox as well as the PS2, although one could argue that it's not technically a Ridge Racer game. It hasn't really be a pseudo-official Sony IP in a while.

    It definitely started off as a mainly Sony IP though. When the original Ridge Racer was released at the launch of the PS1 it was a showcase for the system. It was designed to show that the PS1 was capable of full fledged arcade to console ports, compared to the Sega Saturn and it's terrible port of Daytona USA (although the CCE version fixed that somewhat). Then Ridge Racer Revolution oh fuck it I sshould just make a Ridge Racer thread.

    Also, I am hoping that they bring back all of the old factions that don't seem to exist anymore. Stuff like the old Black Knights, Wolfpack, and Majesto. I loved Castle Legos when I was a kid. Little dragons with the hole in their mouth where you could mount the fire piece, little brown bows and arrows for my forest dudes, glow in the dark ghosts.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Einhander wrote: »
    Also, I am hoping that they bring back all of the old factions that don't seem to exist anymore. Stuff like the old Black Knights, Wolfpack, and Majesto. I loved Castle Legos when I was a kid. Little dragons with the hole in their mouth where you could mount the fire piece, little brown bows and arrows for my forest dudes, glow in the dark ghosts.

    Fuck yes, this stuff was the best. I remember getting knights with the helmet with a visor that could open and close, it was the coolest thing in the world. The castles I built were the most fun I had as a kid.

    My brother built a giant castle one time and made up a game pretty similar to Warhammer where we each had armies trying to defend/storm the castle, and each one could move a certain number of dots each turn etc.

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  • SirUltimosSirUltimos Don't talk, Rusty. Just paint. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Einhander wrote: »
    Also, I am hoping that they bring back all of the old factions that don't seem to exist anymore. Stuff like the old Black Knights, Wolfpack, and Majesto. I loved Castle Legos when I was a kid. Little dragons with the hole in their mouth where you could mount the fire piece, little brown bows and arrows for my forest dudes, glow in the dark ghosts.

    Fuck yes, this stuff was the best. I remember getting knights with the helmet with a visor that could open and close, it was the coolest thing in the world. The castles I built were the most fun I had as a kid.

    My brother built a giant castle one time and made up a game pretty similar to Warhammer where we each had armies trying to defend/storm the castle, and each one could move a certain number of dots each turn etc.

    I remember doing that. We'd take the Lego bucket and each build a small base and try to destroy eachother. But we ran out of Lego men so we used the Lego men as super powered generals and just used coloured bricks as the men. It was awesome.

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Damn I love legos.

    I am buying this shit.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Apparently my DS loves to eat my monies.

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    So I get to play a game that essentially was my childhood free time?

    HELL YES

    Also, I'm sitting mere feet away from my tubs full of color-organized LEGOs. Maybe it's time again for the great Aquanaut, castle, pirate, space wars?

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