LEGO Horizon Adventures Proves All LEGO Games Are The Same

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It’s incredible to witness just how far the modern LEGO games have come. I still remember when LEGO Racers was the greatest title in the franchise. Now, almost every big-name blockbuster has been turned into a ‘LEGO-fied’ adaptation in the ever-growing list of Traveller’s Tales games. More recently, LEGO might be turning other games into LEGO video games, as we saw with LEGO Horizon Adventures. Easily one of the most unexpected adaptations ever released, this new title takes the epic open-world gameplay of Horizon and turns it into a family-friendly isometric adventure.

Surprisingly, this particular LEGO title wasn’t developed by Traveller’s Tale, the company behind essentially every mainline LEGO game since the original LEGO Star Wars. Instead, LEGO Horizon Adventures was co-developed by Guerrilla Games – yes, the same Guerrilla Games responsible for the original Horizon titles. Naturally, with a different developer, one would expect the game would offer a fresh change of pace from the LEGO games we’ve grown to know. At least, I’d love to say that is the case. The reality is that, even with a different developer, the modern LEGO video game DNA is much too strong. Once you’ve played one LEGO game, you’ve played them all.

First, let’s give some credit to LEGO Horizon Adventures. The game is a somewhat faithful recreation of Horizon Zero Dawn – only with a more family-friendly tone. The story and characters are all here, and so are the incredible vistas fans of the series already know. For Horizon newcomers and younger players, this is a great way to enter the polarizing world of Horizon. However, if you’ve already played both of Aloy’s previous titles, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything new in this LEGO adventure. Here’s the thing with those impressive massive LEGO structures you see from time to time: once you get close enough, you start noticing the cracks and the weak spots. The same happened to me and my hopes for LEGO Horizon Adventure.

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