The missions in this are probably the most lackluster a Lego game has been. They are quite simplistic and repetitive, with about 5 of the 15 featuring the same enemy. However, there are a greater selection of heroes to use, with Superman coming into the game fairly early, and late on into the missions others are available to use such as the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.
There are a number of new features. Unless the recent Harry Potter Lego games have had talking characters, this is the first Lego game to have characters with voices during the cut scenes, and it works well with many of the cut-scenes being very humorous, mainly due to the banter between Batman and Superman. Kind of like GTA, away from the missions there is an open world to explore and master to complete the game 100% by collecting all of the hidden Lego bricks as well that was missing from the previous Lego Batman adventure.
As far as the overall gameplay goes this doesn't offer a huge amount different to the previous Lego games. It does improve slightly in a few areas such as weapon/item usage which give the levels a bit more of a different feeling than before. Also there is more driving to be done with quite a few levels requiring a vehicle to be used to smash items, destroy villains' vehicles and collect items.
The major difference however in comparison to the Original Adventures is that in the Original Adventures you were in the school and went up to that blackboard to pick your level and characters, which was fairly easy to navigate. However, in this game the school is a fairly large world with levels scattered everywhere for each movie. It is confusing at first because the entrance to a level you completed earlier can be an entrance to a future level so you find yourself backtracking and not really knowing where you have been before and where the next level is. The major annoyance though is that you need certain characters to complete levels as they have unique abilities and in normal mode you can't just pick a a character - you have to go back to where that person is in the world - get close to them and then select them - it becomes frustrating.
One thing I did think going into this, as this game again offers the first three movies to be played, was that they would feel repetitive, but the developers have done a good job offering new and different levels based on the films that were in the Original Adventures. Overall, there are a few bugs but if you enjoyed Original Adventures or any Lego game this is well worth a try.
Nothing out of this world but an addictive fun game to play with some challenging puzzles and humour. Because the lego characters don't speak though in the cut scenes, I reckon you would have had to have seen the Indy movies to get the most out of the storyline that is given.
Gameplay 4/5
Graphics 4/5
Sound 4/5
Difficulty 5/5
Originality 4.5/5
While challenging to master anyone can pick this up and play and it isn't as hard as some of the other golfing games around. From a gameplay point of view it didn't add a huge amount to its predecessor, but it added everything else; More unlockables, slightly better graphics, more characters and improved presentation. Easily one of my favourite sport games on the PlayStation from one of my favourite series. Still great to pick up and play today.
Gameplay 5/5
Graphics 3.5/5
Sound 4/5
Difficulty 5/5
Originality 4/5
The best thing about this game is the soundtrack. It got me into a heap of hip hop artists that I love to this day and also helped me become the hip hop junkie that I am. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Hoffman%27s_Pro_BMX#Songs, A great soundtrack.] On the gameplay side of things this is very much a Tony Hawk's Skateboarding clone but on a BMX instead of a board. So if you like those games there is no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this.
Gameplay 4/5
Graphics 5/5
Sound 5/5
Difficulty 4/5
Originality 3.5/5