In the past few years, we've had a LEGO Incredibles, Jurassic World, DC Super-Villains, and even two movies with coinciding games to boot with a brand new LEGO Star Wars underway, but Travellerꦅ's Tales library of digital Lego experiences span🐠s back as far as the 90s.
These vary from Knights' Kingdom to Soccer Mania and Rock Raiders; if Metacritic is anything to go by, they improved from these experimental early d꧙ays and found their niche at the beginning of the 2000s with their comedic adaptations, even if they have 🔯dipped score-wise recently.
10 LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (Metascore 77) 🦄
What truly put the Lego games on the map wasn't Builder Bots or Alpha Team but the renditions of the Star Wars films, with the original covering the first three movies, dropping right after Revenge of the Sith in 2005.
The hub was Dexter's Diner, the levels were short and to the point, the comedy was entirely visual and the gameplay wa༒s that of high-end 3D platforming with collectibles and secrets galore. It fit in perfectly for the PS2 era and impressed critics and audiences alike.
9 LEGO ꦅMarvel Super Heroes (Metasco⛎re 78)
More recently, in 2013, following the gargantuan success of the Avengers film only a year prior, LEGO Marvel Superheroes dropped with an original story and a gigantic roster of heroes and villains from all corners of the Marvel comics, be it X-Men, the aforementioned Avenger🃏s or the Fantastic Four.
It168澳洲幸运5开奖网: drew inspiration from the MCU but, long before phase 3, it embraced the campy, cheesy, and colorful side of the c🐟omics in all their glory with classic Lego humor as the cherry on top. The sequel and direct MCU adaptation weren't quite as well-received, leaving this seven-year-old gem standing on top as the best Lego Marvel game to-date🔥, as far as critics are concerned.
8 LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Metascore 78) ♎
It wasn't just Star Wars that solidified the Lego games as a perfectly viable platformer for those itching to get their jump-and-punch on with plenty of collectibles to nab, as Indiana Jones and Batman also helped pave the 🎐way.
Both dropped in 2008, although Indiana Jones and Star Wars weren't Lego's first licensed outing, with the very first being Lego Creator: Harry Potter and Galidor, although they didn't quite impact the same impression. Indiana Jones, like the first𝓰 Star Wars, was based on the original three films.
7 ♊ LEGO Harry Potter: Yea🌃rs 1-4 (Metascore 79)
Whilst the Lego games' first license🐷d work was in 🍒2001 with Harry Potter, it wouldn't be until nine years later in 2010 that they'd give the same treatment they had with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman to the beloved British wizarding IP.
It covered a larger range than its predecessors, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:adapting four films this time around, but it did so to rave reviews with the critics praising its easter-egg-packed cutscenes and action-packe♚d platforming𒁏 frenzy.
6 🎀 LEGO City Undercover (Metascore 80) ജ
Inspired by Grand Theft Auto, weirdly enough, Lego City Undercover is a completely original game, not based upon an IP as a lot of their popular prior work has been, paving the way for the likes of Ninjago.
It released in 2013 and put players in the perspective of a police officer, although not quite to the gritty and grimy lengths of Sleeping Dogs. In that regard, like with The Simpsons: Hit & Run, it was seen as the kid's alternative to GTA.
5 LEGO The Lord of the Rings (Metascore 80) 🎀
It's only natural that the fantasy genre's biggest film franchise, Lord of the Rings, would eventually see itself adapted by Lego, especially if the sci-fi gargantuan that is Star Wars managed to put TT in the mainstream.
LEGO The Lord of the Rings dropped in 2012 and it even managed to get itself a sequel (or rather, a prequel) only two years later with Lego The Hobbit, which was met with slightly worse reviews🍌, sitting at a mediocre 68.
4 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Metascore 8🧔0)
Given that the first LEGO Harry Potter was followed up by the suffix Years 1-4, it was clear from the get-go that TT had plans to follow it ಞup with a sequel that would complete the story.
This sequel came in 2011 and was better rec🦋eived than its predecessor with an impressive 80 on Metacritic, although that is only one point higher. As far as Lego games go, it's the most consistent of the bunch, but perhaps a Fantastic Beasts entry could throw that off if TT isn't care🐎ful.
3 LE🅠GO Batman: The𝓡 Video Game (Metascore 80)
There's, and there have even been three Lego Batmans with a Super-Villains spin-off, but it was LEGO Batman that kicked it all off in 2008.
It was based on a licensed property, that being DC's Batman, but it was the first of the bunch, amongst Star Wars a𝔍nd Indiana Jones, to have a completely original story. However, it did make use of the iconic 80s Batman theꦕme.
2 LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Metascore 81) ꩵ
Where do you go from a monumental superhero hit starring one of DC's most famous heroes? Well, for TT, that was obvious, as they opted to throw out DC Super Heroes, albeit keeping the prefix of LEGO Batman.
It was their first 'Super Heroes' game, pre-dating Marvel's by only a year, but it managed to top the first LEGO Batman for the critics, with PC Gamer descri🅘bing it as a "labor of love."
1 LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Metascore 86) 🌠
However, no matter what platform you're looking at, whether it's PC as in the case of this list, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, or PSP, the king of TT's Lego franchise is Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.
Across the board, it has the highest ratings, adapting the three 80s films, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Return of the Jedi, with the humor of its predecessor, kept in-tact whilst the gameplay was heavily refined. To this day, for critics, it has yet to be topped, so TT's upcoming Skywalker Saga has some big boots to fill.