It's not realistic in the gritty, photographic sense - but the game does manage to capture the essence of a Pirates Of The Caribbean diorama recreated in LEGO. There's a semi-realistic charm to LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean that underscores the great puzzle design and humorous story-telling. And that forces you into seeing everything the world has to offer as opposed to haplessly wandering from room-to-room in search of your next narrative fix. The game encourages you to interact with its beautifully rendered environments before you happen upon the solution that will take you into the next room. In many ways the game is a case-study for great design. None of LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean's puzzles are especially challenging, but they do force you into using your noggin. And even without the use of dialogue, Depp's personality is perfectly embodied in the miniature LEGO recreation of the character, bringing wit and humour to the part with childish jokes and lashings of self awareness. While others settle for pistols and shovels, Sparrow's compass and rope-tricks make him the go-to character for many of Pirates Of The Caribbean's puzzles. Sparrow has more abilities than most other characters in the game. While the roster stretches out to include periphery characters that you probably won't even remember from the movies, Sparrow is at the heart of the game with a bottle of rum and beautifully apt stagger. LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean will take you around eight hours to see through to its conclusion, but it's in the game's collectathon core that you will get the most playtime, with an outrageous number of goodies being dangled like a carrot on an ever distancing stick.Īs in the movies, Captain Jack Sparrow is undoubtedly the star of LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean. As in the movies, Jack is the star of the show, using a new compass mechanic to track down treasures - sometimes conducive to the adventure, often times not but equally satisfying either way. Switching between the game's roster of main and periphery characters opens up new sub-abilities that you'll need to accomplish in order to solve puzzles and collect the game's catalogue of hidden goodies.
It's playable co-op but equally enjoyable alone, as you utilise LEGO pieces to tear down or build structures that aid you in your plight. This is a LEGO game afterall, and it does little to break the formula already deeply rooted into the series. Similarly, the gameplay is as refined as the story-telling.
Those with a reverence for the source material will get more out of LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean than others, but the slap-stick style of the entire package's delivery will raise a chuckle whether you're familiar with the cast or not.
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Set across the original trio of rum-fuelled adventures, plus the brand new escapade, On Stranger Tides, LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean masterfully plots the antics of the loose-legged Captain Sparrow and crew as the loot obsessed nautical risk-takers go in search of the Black Pearl, all pieced together with the familiar LEGO wit. Traveller's Tales appears to have mastered the art of transforming popular properties into thoroughly enjoyable co-operative affairs, and the developer's whimsical take on Disney's somewhat convoluted Pirates Of The Caribbean tetralogy is no different.
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