Lego Batman: The Videogame

Lego Batman: The Videogame is a 2008 Lego-themed action adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the first installment in the Lego Batman series.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The three episodes are great, as well as the villain side.
 * 2) Features almost all well-known Batman characters.
 * 3) Lots of funny humor.
 * 4) There's some extra content to purchase including more characters and extras.
 * 5) * On top of that, you can get Batgirl, Classic Catwoman and other characters in this game.
 * 6) You can either play as a hero or a villain, but you must finish any episode in a hero's story before you get a villain's story.
 * 7) Amazing backgrounds and lighting.
 * 8) Awesome soundtrack. In fact, a lot of it is Danny Elfman's from the 1989 Batman movie in addition to some music from Batman Returns.
 * 9) Speaking of which, each of the chapters in the hero and villain story are loosely based on the first four Batman movies.
 * 10) * Chapter 1 "The Riddler's Revenge" is loosely based off Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.
 * 11) * Chapter 2 "Power Crazed Penguin" is loosely based off Batman Returns.
 * 12) * Chapter 3 "The Joker's Return" is loosely based off Batman (1989).
 * 13) Good graphics like Lego Indiana Jones had.
 * 14) It's surprisingly dark for a Lego game, with the ambience in levels like "Little Fun At The Big Top", "A Surprise For The Commissioner" and the Arkham Asylum hub sounding very creepy and disturbing.
 * 15) A lot of the backgrounds and level designs look creepy but cool, especially in levels like "In The Dark Knight" looking very dirty, grimy, and scummy, which is not something you see too much in Lego games. And there's just a lot of great levels in this game. Some more examples are:
 * 16) * "An Icy Reception" and "On The Rocks", in which an ice cream factory is presented as this cavernous death trap.
 * 17) * "In The Dark Knight" might as well be the best mission in the game.
 * 18) * "The Lure of The Night", which looks somewhat similar to "In The Dark Knight".
 * 19) * "A Poisonous Appointment" and "Green Fingers", where you're in this garden and you just half-expect the dead to rise up out of the ground when you destroy the plants and bushes.
 * 20) * "There She Goes Again" and "Stealing The Show" both show off the impossible scale of Gotham, with the gaps in between buildings looking like a bottomless pit.
 * 21) * "You Can Bank On Batman", while looking a bit bland, is a great kickoff to the game and has a lot of nostalgia value.
 * 22) * "The Joker's Masterpiece" is set in an art museum, which is a very interesting and unique place for a level.
 * 23) * "The Joker's Home Turf" is also a really great mission, being set in a warehouse of sorts.
 * 24) * "Under The City" and "A Daring Rescue" both have very interesting designs for the sewers, and both levels are a blast to play.
 * 25) * "Little Fun At The Big Top" and "A Surprise For The Commissioner" have these really creepy carnival designs and it almost makes you feel unnerved just playing these levels.
 * 26) * "Zoo's Company" is a very interesting and unique-looking level.
 * 27) * Even the vehicle missions have interesting backgrounds to look at.
 * 28) The controls in this game are great, the game even manages to make the Wii controls work.
 * 29) The character designs in this game look great, with most of the villains being based off their counterparts from Batman: The Animated Series or the Lego Batman sets that were out at the time of the game's release.
 * 30) Both the Batcave and Arkham Asylum hubs, while small, are fun to wander around in and look at.
 * 31) * There's even a suit changer in the Batcave if you want to mess around with the different suits.
 * 32) * The character customizer is located in Arkham Asylum, and if you 100% complete the game, you can build up the character Huntress.
 * 33) The suits in this game are fun to use, and there are 4 suits each for Batman and Robin to use.
 * 34) * Batman's Demolition suit allows him to blow up silver Lego objects.
 * 35) * Batman's Glide suit allows him to glide across long distances and gaps.
 * 36) * Batman's Sonic suit allows him to shatter glass.
 * 37) * Batman's Heat Protection Suit allows him to touch and build with very hot Lego objects.
 * 38) * Robin's Magnet suit allows him to climb up magnetic walls and surfaces.
 * 39) * Robin's Water suit allows him to go underwater.
 * 40) * Robin's Technology Suit allows him to interact with Tech Panels.
 * 41) * Robin's Attract suit allows him to suck up random Lego objects lying around levels.
 * 42) * The same suits apply for Batgirl and Nightwing.
 * 43) The last data which is purchased for the maximum amount of studs “The End?”  which foreshadows the sequel.
 * 44) The DS version has several characters who are not in the other versions of the game.
 * 45) When achieving a 100%, Rā's al Ghūl is unlocked for purchase.
 * 46) Not only is this an amazing Lego game, but it's a great Batman game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Sometimes it can get pretty dark for its target demographic.
 * 2) No split-screen for co-op.
 * 3) The vehicle missions: Not only are they repetitive and boring, but they are also very tedious. Just like Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, most of them involve dragging and slinging bombs around.
 * 4) * "Batboat Battle", "Flight Of The Bat", and "Biplane Blast" are prime examples.
 * 5) * "Luckily, "Harboring A Grudge" and "Two-Face Chase" kind of do away with this.
 * 6) The last 2 missions of each of the hero and villain stories, "To The Top Of The Tower" and "Dying Of Laughter", while not bad missions, kind of disappoint because of that last-mission expectation.
 * 7) Some of the levels aren't that great, like "Penguin's Lair" and "Breaking Blocks".
 * 8) Another main problem with a few of the missions in this game, primarily the villain missions, is that some of them use mechs as a cheap way to end missions.
 * 9) The extra, "Extra Toggle", has no effect.
 * 10) The console version has a noticeable lack of characters compared to previous games. Some, like the Yeti, do not appear in levels at all, while other NPCs that appear in levels are not playable.
 * 11) No gold bricks, something that every other Lego game has.
 * 12) Batman's Heat Protection suit is very underutilized.
 * 13) Killer Moth doesn't have a grab move, and that's just blatant discrimination. Like, do the people at TT games hate moths or something?
 * 14) Hush and Rā's al Ghūl are hard characters to unlock, and they barely have any special abilities. (See Trivia for more information)
 * 15) Unfortunately, Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham do away with all the dark elements presented in this game.

Reception
Lego Batman: The Videogame received generally favorable reviews from critics upon release. It has a 9/10 on Steam, a 4.2/5 on GOG.com, and a 7.3/10 on IGN.

Trivia

 * Loading a custom character without creating one in the DS version causes Batman to load in T-pose.
 * This is the only Lego game aside from Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to not have gold bricks.
 * Robin in this game is Tim Drake.
 * Some of the villain models in this game were reused in Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes.
 * There's speculation saying that Lego Batman 2 is a reboot instead of a sequel, because it contains no references to this game whatsoever.
 * There is a chalk outline on the ground in the parking lot in the level "The Riddler Makes A Withdrawal", signifying a dead Lego minifigure.
 * The character "Military Policeman" does not appear in any levels or cutscenes, and is just made up of leftover files from Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
 * Some earlier models of characters and vehicles were shown in the trailers, but were not in the final game.
 * There is a glitch where you can get Batman into Arkham Asylum if you play the Arkham bonus mission, and you can get the villains in the Batcave by spamming between the 2 hub worlds.
 * The Yeti, just like the Military Policeman, does not appear in any cutscenes or levels, but made it into the game somehow. There's people speculating that he was supposed to resemble the villain "The Snowman" or was supposed to be part of Mr. Freeze's storyline, but ended up on the cutting room floor. Besides, he only has one special ability, and that's his gun.
 * In the level "The Lure Of The Night", you can actually go outside of the playing limit.
 * Police Marksman is the only character that the buggy Extra Toggle works on.
 * There are some unused levels in the game that can actually be loaded into Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga because it meets the same file requirements.
 * There is another glitch where if you shock someone frozen as the Joker, they will go flying.
 * This game is technically a tie-in to the release of The Dark Knight. There was a Dark Knight game planned by Pandemic Studios, but for whatever reason, it got cancelled. The hype around the movie is probably what drew many people to buying this game.
 * There's a few fan theories about this game out there:
 * One says that this game is set after Gotham has experienced a nuclear fallout, which explains the scummy and dirty level designs, and how villains like Killer Croc and Man-Bat exist in this world.
 * There's also people saying that this game is a prequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, which only released a year after this game.
 * The game was actually rushed, believe it or not. It's hardly noticeable, though.
 * Hush and Rā's al Ghūl are the last 2 characters you unlock in the game.
 * To unlock Hush, you have to rescue all the hostages in the levels. His only special ability, however, is that he can build faster.
 * To unlock Rā's al Ghūl, you have to 100% complete the game, and his only special ability is that he can walk across tightropes faster.
 * There's also a glitch where somehow, you can get an unkillable Killer Moth inside of the Hero Trophy Room. The possible reason behind this is possibly Killer Moth died in the storyline, and he now haunts Wayne Manor.

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