Lego Games Are Keeping Movie Tie-Ins Alive
Arkham City is hailed as the best Batman game of all time. Hell, some fanatics even call it the number one superhero game. Wrong. You’re all wrong. The award goes to Lego Marvel Superheroes or Batman Begins, and probably the latter. I don’t make the rules. Christian Bale with his tight plastic-looking suit, pushing goons up against the wall, throatily gargling, “WHO DO YOU WORK FOR” before throwing them down a flight of stairs tops anything from Rocksteady.
Will we get that with Pattinson’s Batman? No. We won’t. Movie tie-ins are dead outside of the inevitable Fortnite skins, but they don’t count. They’re like digital action figures. Boo. Boring. I want a game where I get to play as Robert Pattinson, twinkling away while I bite the neck of Colin Farrell. No, Fortnite isn’t the closest. Lego is.
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While movie tie-ins died an unceremonious death after the PS3 era, Lego kept the red, orange and yellow studs glowing with Jurassic Park, Avengers, Lord of the Rings, The Incredibles, and even its own films. Making movie tie-ins of your own movies? The balls on TT Games. Hell, my introduction to the ‘80s Batman theme was in Lego, not Tim Burton’s classic, and my first foray into Star Wars was, again, with the games. That’ll upset someone - it is Star Wars - but now I have fond memories of Dexter’s Diner, Qui-Gon’s X eyes, and the absolute cursed Jar Jar gameplay where you can jump three blocks high.
There’s something special about movie tie-ins that I can’t quite put my finger on. A lot of the time, they’re a load of shit, but that’s the charm. I love a bad slasher that I can watch for 90 minutes and I will rate them absurdly high because of
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