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

Brainiac 8

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.

KalTorak

FUCK.

YES.

Brainiac 8

We can finally see who is more fierce and dangerous: Ninjas or Pirates! :shock:


I can't wait for this game.

lowlylowlycook

Is there anything the DS can't do?

Brainiac 8

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.

Cameron_Talley

OMG! This is quite possibly a Day One Purchase for me.

Classic Castle vs. Classic Space vs. Classic Pirates?

FUCK YES!

Wordherder

Oooooh, nice. I've been hoping for a Lego game that doesn't re-use the Lego Star Wars engine for the bazillionth time.

SwashbucklerXX

When they say "building castles", do they mean, like, actually building them with blocks?

Please?

Brainiac 8

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.

Klineshrike

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?

JihadJesus

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.

Brainiac 8

This is from the DS, why couldn't the Lego pictures?

Shadowfire

I think we were talking about a game exactly like this in either the LEGO Indy or Batman thread.

So yea, fucking win.

CoJoeTheLawyer

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.

Brainiac 8

Sorry sir, you have no excuse to not own a DS....I thought it was a mandatory law nowadays.

Cameron_Talley

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.

Orogogus

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

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.

ArcSyn

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.

ToyD

Son of a.... why can't this be on xbox? I mean, DS is ok, but WANT THIS IN XBOX MULTIPLAYER!

Brainiac 8

You never know ToyD, it might happen.

Forar

Holy shit! This sounds incredible.

Einhander

I'm buying a DS.

Einhander

I mean, like today.

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

Proxy

YES. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.

MrDelish

DAMN

HELL

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

Cameron_Talley

Man, I thought everyone and their mother already had a DS....

Einhander

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.

Brainiac 8

The DS didn't have Ridge Racer. o_O

Einhander

Yeah it did.

KalTorak

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

The DS didn't have Riiiiiiiiidgggge Racer! o_O

Brainiac 8

Einhander wrote: »

Yeah it did.

Intersting...I had no idea.


I always thought it was a Sony owned IP.

Einhander

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.

lowlylowlycook

Ridge Racer is "officially" a Sony IP.

Brainiac 8

Offtopic or no, thanks for the info. :^:

SirUltimos

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.

Einhander

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.

KalTorak

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.

SirUltimos

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.

THEPAIN73

Damn I love legos.

I am buying this shit.

Drake

Apparently my DS loves to eat my monies.

darunia106

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?