Gaming Lego City: Undercover The Chase Begins Hype Thread

[Jiehfeng]

NA: 21st April 2013​

EU: 26th April 2013​

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3lqZpJE-fKc​

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Developed by TT Games, LEGO CITY Undercover: The Chase Begins is set two years before the events of LEGO CITY Undercover on Wii U, and charts the rise of Chase McCain as he gradually earns his revered status within the LEGO CITY Police Department (LCPD), headed up by Chief Gleeson and Deputy Dunby. Progressing from the humble beginnings of solving petty crimes to infiltrating the meanest gangs on the streets of LEGO CITY, Chase McCain soon encounters one gang headed up by a muscular crook who the rookie will come to know well throughout his career – Rex Fury!​

As an emerging undercover investigator learning the art of disguise, Chase McCain will need to adopt a variety of disguises – including a fireman, a robber, a construction worker and a miner – in order to blend into his surroundings. With this in mind, and beginning the week after the launch of the game, Nintendo of Europe will be releasing unlock codes for extra Chase McCain costumes on its Nintendo 3DS Facebook and Twitter accounts, including a mime artist and a zombie, to ensure Chase can remain anonymous wherever he goes! In addition, within the game you have the chance to collect over 70 minifigures that are assigned to the different disguise categories, opening up the possibility to play as some of the more unusual characters of LEGO CITY.​

As part of the post-launch offering, Nintendo of Europe will also be releasing on social media an unlock code for a very handy vehicle to call upon when criminals are making a hasty retreat. Once unlocked, vehicles are available at Vehicle Call-in Points located around LEGO CITY, but for Chase a set of wheels is never far away, with over 50 different vehicles available to commandeer. Pesky criminals are not even safe whilst airborne or at sea, as speedboats and helicopters will become available as the storyline unfolds.​

For the launch of the recent LEGO CITY Undercover on Wii U, Nintendo of Europe launched a series of webisodes on its YouTube channels for fans to get acquainted with the key players in the plot to fight – and commit, in the case of Rex Fury and other villains – crime in LEGO CITY. With LEGO CITY Undercover: The Chase Begins acting as a prequel to this tale, Nintendo will be releasing another series of webisodes for all Nintendo 3DS owners to check out what lies in store in this earlier chapter of the LEGO CITY saga.​

It’s time for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL console owners to get a piece of LEGO CITY action when LEGO CITY Undercover: The Chase Begins launches across Europe on 26th April. Meanwhile, for all Wii U owners, don’t forget you can already do some investigative police work from the comfort of your sofa in LEGO CITY Undercover, out now and available as a standalone game or in a limited-edition software bundle with a Chase McCain minifigure.​

-Nintendo of Europe​

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OFFICIAL SITE​

NEWS
Gameplay:

(thanks rizzsparky for the link)



WiiU map is the same as the 3DS map



Free roam video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAaH89m5wA

3 NEW COMMERCIALS




Greek or EU Trailer:


New Screen Shots:
1.

Spoiler: NEW SCREEN SHOTS, HAVE A LOOK!

^Look at that sweet car

^The design for this game is great.
And hey, notice a railway track? Exciting!

^The map is right here, it looks small.

^Look at the nice graphics If you look at the map, there is a heliport and a vehicle stop (choose vehicle, a helicopter brings it)

If you do not know, you can also use your 3DS gyroscope sensor to track down various things like thieves just like in the WiiU.

^Uses a magnifying glass instead of the WiiU gamepad or 3DS
(Now when you look at all the pics, the map seems big actually)

^The grapple gun

^Hmm, wonder whats north east of this map...

^It's a chase.

2.

Spoiler

^Interesting

^Yup, you can swim

^Ugly.

^ REX FURY

^Dunby

^Scanning. Just like the wiiu version. You use the gyro scope sensor.

^Grappling hook, yeah. The touch screen interface looks interesting. Anyone can guess what the buttons do?

^GTFO!

^Lololol

^Button mashing, mini(mini)game.

^*Insert detective music*

^Mayor

Impressions:

Allright, I've been researching the trailer to see what are the features we can do.

^What are those mountains? Are they the island which is in the wiiu version?
It makes sense actually, "The 3DS version's map will be the same as the wiiU version."

^The combat looks pretty advanced for a lego game. It's not just, keep punching and grabbing.
There's slow motion too. It's a little same to the WiiU version combat. Though there won't be the
kung fu combat.

^If you watched the first impressions video, there isn't a police car there.
Well, that's the start. After the first or second mission or so,
you will get the police car, which you can see to his right in the video.
Not that exciting, but yeah.

IGNORE THE PANTS
^As you can see, that super brick cost only 200 bricks.
There's no hundred super brick in the WiiU version.
And well, super builds, don't shine. You can't put every little detail to the handheld version.
But that's not important, what's important is, the helipad only costs 300 bricks.
Helipads in the wiiu version are a hell lot more to spend.
So, this means, there won't be as much of super bricks in the handheld version.
ex: 100 in the wiiu will mean 50 in the 3DS
Just like the amount of vehicles.
But there's not that much of a difference.

^What's that floating brick in the sky?
Is it a red brick. ...
So yeah, there are red bricks.

^See a white and blue pad on the right?
It's called a jump pad. You know what can you do with it?
You can walk on over that and you will jump high and land on a place, where it takes you.
IN SLOW MOTION.
Plus, if you're in a building, there are places where you have to jump over to another platform.
From one surface, you jump to the other end cause in the middle, there's no surface.
Get it? Now, if there were two jump pads on either surfaces, run over to the one in what surface you are on, and you will do a run on the wall to the next surface.
How should I put this... Ah, if you played prince of persia, you can run on walls right? It's same here, with using two of this jump pads. Pretty cool huh?

^Free falling, parachute gliding. It's all there

Reviews​

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Nintendo Life 6/10​

 

[DaggerV]

That video actually has me sold. That'll be 6 3DS games to get now soonish

 

[Lanlan]

Reminds me of Lego Island on PS1, or whatever it was called. I want this. I was BIG into Legos (Legoes?) as a kid.

 

[Rizsparky]

Reminds me of Lego Island on PS1, or whatever it was called. I want this. I was BIG into Legos (Legoes?) as a kid.

I think 'Lego' is the plural and this does look really good, this is turning out to be a fantastic year for gaming.. unfortunately for my wallet..

 

[Lanlan]

Been Wikipedia-ing the developer, they don't really have any good titles from what I can tell, so I'm kinda worried that this will suck too

 

[Niksy]

Did any one else notice the horrible frame-rate? Or is that because of youtube?

 

[Rizsparky]

Did any one else notice the horrible frame-rate? Or is that because of youtube?

didnt notice it but its probably a bit of both, but what do you expect though? The game looks pretty good at the moment

 

[Jiehfeng]

I have seen many 3DS gameplay videos for good games and they don't look that good.
But trust me, once you get one, turn on the 3D, the graphics are awesome. The 3DS.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

For me it is LTA: Lego Theft Auto.

I'll buy it only after playing a demo, or playing it on a store. I have a lot of doubts about it

 

[Janthran]

Looks like the best LEGO game yet.

That's not saying a lot, though

 

[signz]

I really hope a demo comes out for this.

 

[ferofax]

The thing that got me excited about it is that it's open-world and free-roam. Maybe they'll decide to do a proper free-roam LEGO LOTR game after this, maybe even something along the lines of LEGO Guardians of Middle Earth.

 

[Janthran]

The thing that got me excited about it is that it's open-world and free-roam. Maybe they'll decide to do a proper free-roam LEGO LOTR game after this, maybe even something along the lines of LEGO Guardians of Middle Earth.

LEGO the Hobbit

 

[ferofax]

LEGO the Hobbit

But LEGO Hobbit would severely limit the areas explorable, by virtue of the story basically never straying far.

 

[Janthran]

For me it is LTA: Lego Theft Auto.

I'll buy it only after playing a demo, or playing it on a store. I have a lot of doubts about it

Grand Theft Lego sounds better IMO. And it actually makes more sense.

 

[Jiehfeng]

"Lego City Stories"

 

[Janthran]

I hope it lets us play as bad guys too.

 

[Jiehfeng]

I hope it lets us play as bad guys too.

I don't think so,if yes, awesome.
If you look at the trailer, it gives a GTA look.
Parachute, cars and stuff.
One question, can we steal cars and kill innocent people?

 

[Janthran]

I don't think so,if yes, awesome.
If you look at the trailer, it gives a GTA look.
Parachute, cars and stuff.
One question, can we steal cars and kill innocent people?

It's LEGO. Of course we can kill innocent people.
although I'd call it "bloxxing" innocent people since you just reduce them to blocks and they can be rebuilt

 

[Jiehfeng]

It's LEGO. Of course we can kill innocent people.
although I'd call it "bloxxing" innocent people since you just reduce them to blocks and they can be rebuilt

Ahaha, I expected that reply.
We need blood in this game, or at least blood blocks