You've got your Harry Potter or your Batman in which players traverse a series of large-but-manageable linear levels, engaging in basic-but-satisfying platforming or puzzle solving. Lego games generally come in two flavors. Lego bricks on Lego bricks on Lego bricks. A large ferry building itself piece by piece. A bear, sleeping on a collapsed tent in a campsite. Undercover is my new favorite Lego game, and when I picture it, here is what I see:Ī policemen dressed in a robber's outfit gleefully driving a sit-on lawnmower. When you're Superman and you're flying, the Superman theme swells behind you, and this sounds like a small thing, but when I picture the game I see a plastic man, tiny arms outstretched, buzzing a skyscraper to the sound of John Williams. For a long time, I thought my favorite Lego game was Lego Batman 2, in which, let loose in a vast open-world Gotham, you rampage around while playing as seemingly anybody who has ever appeared in a DC property. Too much cheesecake leaves a taste of lemon in your mouth. Playing Lego City Undercover is an exercise in grinning. The first time the game revealed this process to me, I sat holding the controller and grinning, as I did whenever the game showed me something new or surprising or joyful. And then, in a shower of colorful bricks and studs, they explode. Soon, they are nothing more than a chassis, complete with shuddering engine block and startlingly unphased Lego driver. With each collision, the vehicles are unbuilt, revealing their boxy interiors and internal structure. In a world made of Lego, though, things are much simpler. Keep beating it up and you'll lose a door, or the windscreen will shatter, and eventually it'll burst into flame and that will be that. When you crash a car in Grand Theft Auto, the hood crinkles and smoke pours from underneath. But you've got to start with what happens when you crash a car. Describing Lego City Undercover to people, it'd be easy to talk about the city, or the puzzles, or the spirit the game radiates with every action.
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