History of the Lego Games series. Part 2: Bionicle: The Game and Death of the Golden Age

“Just imagine …” – Lego slogan. Imagine a great future in front. All games are sold, toys are buying up, and each developer dreams of getting a license for the Lego brand Because the design does not require strength, But not everything is so simple. The next five -year plan in the world of the video game made a whole bunch of revolutions in each of its genre, which required developers of new high achievements in every new game. It was not enough to make the product under the license, because then the discs will be sold only in a pack of flakes, and not on the shelves of large stores. But this reaches the publisher too late. I am without the idea of ​​how to start a story about a turning point from the point of view of the game of the death of Lego Media At that time called Lego Software, and later Lego Interactive, all games under the brand Lego. Like this blog, each game experienced not one or even three processing from scratch. Perhaps enough to catch up with the sappress and it’s time to say on the case how to do it at the funeral.

Step 1. Breaking something stronger
Step 2. All games that are relevant or launched, but all are mentioned.
Step 3. Read and leave a comment. The author is young, grows and loves constructive criticism
Step 4. Get cars and bio -iklov.
Step 5. Cry from how cool it was.

First part: https: // Stopgame.Ru/Blogs/Topic/98257

The third part: https: // Stopgame.ru/blogs/topic/104042

Five -year plan, like a year Like a decade, Daur It starts from scratch. From scratch significant games. I personally have my beloved Lego Alpha Team, Children’s Lego My Style, boring and mentioned in the last part by mistake Legoland, But there are huge but. They are all insignificant and only emphasize the pit that digs the company. On the other hand, the British Association of toys recognizes Lego “Toy of the century”, which makes it clear what high expectations can be of ordinary people from Lego products.

I had the games of this five -year period in my childhood on the 6 in one disk, so when I played them, the memories mixed everything in one game, crooked, but diverse. Now it hurt me over every game, but the pain was different. My personal hell, who will experience any daring to follow my way. Well, out of the important thing this year, that I was born to write this blog.

Retail shops Lego Open in England, Germany and Russia, and on the Lego website.COM, which has existed since 1996, was added Lego Message Boards, Therefore, I will begin to describe on the Russian -speaking Message Boards sequel Lego Island.

Lego Island 2: The Brickster’s Revenge

The beginning of the development of “revenge of brick” Literary translation was supposed from the project Lego Fantasy. The producer performed David Apchurch And, in his words, a television show was supposed to be released every morning on Saturday and looked like The adventure of Jackie Chan, with the whole moral morality of life and a slowly advanced global plot Comparison – admission of the author of the blog. The game on this show was already in the early stage of production.

Platformer level Mario 64 with three heroes from the series, each of which is endowed with its abilities. There would also be a dog companion who sniffed the secrets and dug up objects. On paper it was even cooler Fable.

In theory, we had to have three time, as in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Zamka is the past, the city is the present, the cosmos is the future. It was possible to cut down the tree as a bridge in the Middle Ages, return to the present and there would be a wooden bridge.

For 6 months we already had a prototype with a teenager and a dog who could dig. Right before the start of full development, the show was canceled with the whole project. The publisher noticed a similarity between a teenager and a pen of Lego Island And then it rushed. The dog was removed, but added skate. We were going to add tricks as in Tony Hawk, But not everything entered the game. Also, the game did not even enter time travel, but the mini -gygras are added … Now everything is much easier. On this my participation in the development ceased – on the prototype. Honestly, I did not play much in the final product, I just muffled in the first location and that’s it. It seems to me that nothing mine is left here. Silicon Dreams The final developer It’s easier to start several times from scratch than to use other people’s achievements.

David Apchurch was not even indicated in the credits of the game, but in the history of development he laid the first bricks.

Actually, this show was called Lego World And all that is possible to find this above the translated interview with David Apchur And this … trailer!?

Already on the menu Lego Island 2 meets with crackling when guided by each item. This sound resembles shaking the box from the lego. From the first to the last Caststsyan There are only two of them: introductory and final Experience will be visible in their study, but the absence of wit, which will be completely Ttgames. Just like in the first part, there is a toy function – color change/figures by pressing Enter. In fact, the island remained the same, but it grew up and got the railway, along which the train drives. And if you stand on this railway, then the head of the station in a red cloak will arrive and the protagonist will transfer the main character to a safe place, a la Superman. Now Papper has learned to jump, and its height depends on the longitude of the clamped gap. Well, I was still struck by a double jump, the animation of which is one to one in one Lego Star Wars. There is even the opportunity to swim, but the game does not have platforming as such. Why is it all needed – it is not clear.

Even a skate was added, but it is not faster than running. The difference is that you do not have to pinch the button forward on the skate. Yes, and the locations are chamber, which is why it is rarely necessary to overcome straight long distances. But near the house of the protagonist there is a skate park as a separate location, in which they give 2 minutes to roll back all sorts of tricks on one ramp. After all, in the game you can not make tricks. The game engine takes into account the slope by which the PAPPER runs and reduces its speed from this, but where it is visible so that the character runs along the walls with an inclination of 90 °!? And here you can! Even the opportunity to throw pizza For my taste, disrespect for food, made crookedly, because the animation of the impact of standing still is not interrupted, and you can throw pizza during the run into the distance and continue to do anything, besides that, besides. The boat can only be placed in certain ports, but why then the opportunity to swim with the protagonist!? Well, finish that the hero sounds like Link from Zelda. One gets the impression that this is a mishmash of gaplane mechanics, which is not used in the game at all. So it is.

Inhale and exhale. As for the plot?

PEPPER carries pizza, getting acquainted with all the inhabitants of the city, and receives a fee in the form of cubes for his home. Having built a house, he receives an order for Brickster. But do not kill, but deliver pizza. Try to understand further events by Casttszen:

Now I’m raising: Brikster added a bunch of pepper to pizza, burned his camera, stole and broke out a blockpedy, which is why the buildings began to collapse and Brickster robots began to invade the world. Even in children playing in the clearing, they take a football ball ..

We break four special robots. We collect 4 pages of the local Bible and thereby restore 4 disassembled houses. Then it follows Miniyera on the arrows, where you need to beat the robots and not get on informant. Then we are given a tip that the rest of the pages should be sought in the Middle Ages. We jump into the portal that appears on the water and fall where it is required. IN Miniyra we collect blocks from the bottom for building a bridge, which allows you to fight in a tournament against a black knight in Miniyra. Suddenly, after the defeat, the dark knight does not give up and begins to shell us from the guns. In the next Miniyra We destroy all the guns. Great, we got another page, we come back. Now we are sent to another portal, followed by another island from the jungle and desert or, more simply, a set Adventure island, or Oleg Island Lego island on the contrary. No modern bucket will pull the lags from the effects of smoke from the vents of the volcano. If you are stuck somewhere in the desert, then a scorpion bite will save you.

Let’s get back to our Miniig … plots. Two new characters will meet us and immediately send us in pursuit, because snakes are chasing us. IN Miniyra We shoot from them and leave, then to go through Miniyahriye In the tomb. Now, having mined the key to another tomb, we are already passing in it Miniyahriye for compliance of the pictures, and then steal the desired page of the blockpedy and run away from the ball Hello Indiana Jones. We drive by car in Miniyra with very twisted control, because the game is imprisoned for low FPS. We reached the lake and you know what to do? That’s right, funny fishing in Miniyra. We took out another page and go to the jungle. I said we are going? We fly in Minigre on the corn, while you are pushed by the bananas of monkeys. Arrived? Then we jump on t-rema and run through obstacles in Miniyra. We reached? Hey, build a balloon and save dinosaurs from cells of an evil local villain. Just joking, you don’t have to build, but Miniyera There is. The page is mined How? And you can come back.

Everything fell into place, even the children returned the ball, but the Brikster took our parents and flew to the moon, and even scattered robots, which are not cut down simply from a pizza blow. Then we take a column with us and waited more boring when the robots get tired of the dance, to break them already then. Dancing minus, then it’s time to save parents. We pass in Miniyra the course of the young astronaut and already in another Miniyra Learning to jump from a parachute. We jump onto the rocket and went into space through a bunch of asteroids in Miniyra. We land on the moon with a parachute, in the same Miniyra, Then we find parents and prepare pizza for protecting them robots in Do not guess Miniyra. Now you can climb into the Brickster tower, but you have to rise in Miniyra On a circular staircase. Then I killed 5 minutes against 33 seconds of speedorer. We rise and just throw Brickster pizza. Return home in Casttsen. A girl who was not in the game kisses and meets us. But all this is not important, because Brikster makes himself a digging from prison. End.

Mini game with the pursuit Robocatcasino.co.uk of snakes is held by a simple press of shooting button. All snakes sooner or later jump under the endless fire of the protagonist.

That is, the plot is a porridge from the plot Lego Island, reference to Indiana Jones, a wizard in the country of Oz, space Odyssey 2001 and Nineteen Miyigr. The plus to this here is technical bugs and long downloads.

The version for the first PlayStation there was a cut in general, there is no fishing and a parachute jump, very fierce bugs and more suffering on a screw staircase at the end. In the Russian version, moreover, the icons of actions such as sit in the boat or speak are not displayed in the Russian version. It’s better to play in some places, in some places worse. This is the last game Lego to PS.

Version GBC made another developer, so this is a completely different game: there is an subway and pirates, new characters, stealth Kojima suck, enemies knock down, but no more. You can even collect cards and change them with friends. There was its own map:

And to the version for GBA He put his hand Dean Roskell, to which we will return in more detail in Island Xtreme Stunts. For an unknown reason, you can walk in this version only along the sidewalk, the GG road does not go to any. An original quest with local minigraits + 10 old ones came out. This is essentially a mixture PC And GBC versions. Even the card is different:

In fact, the game is a game. It is possible to play, enjoy it, is furious from complexity and go to the end. But what is it better then Rabbit School 1999 ..?

When installing games, I sobbed, because I sat with such a screen and watched when the scale would be filled to the end. This general style causes genuine expectation and love:

As the classic said:

In my children’s brainwash, there were memories of the mission with fishing, because then I did not understand the management of this minigra and the goal. It is all now with a blue flame in my soul.

It is worth starting with a short excursion to the designer itself. Any set of Lego is divided into topics and subtans, the rights to which the company is obliged to extend to produce appropriate products. For example, the first part Lego Racers was a theme RACE 1985-2000 And, with the release of the sequel, the topic Racers 2001-2012 became independent, and there was a subtram Xarax 2001, which is the final stage in Lego Racers 2.

I have personal nostalgia for Xarax, which could be shot from their original set using rubber bands. Fast, small and simple. I was not even amused by the cars themselves, but the triangular packaging from them, which folded very cool:

Xarax This is the word palindrome.

The game itself will begin by creating a character or choosing a ready -made. It’s pretty nice to create your own how to collect Chelika in life. You also need to choose to build your own or choose a finished machine. Transport is collected like instructions that erases the boundaries between the game and the sets in life, but also, like in life, we are free to put some details ourselves where we want. Immediately there is a game convention with a limitation of the number of these spare parts, but even with one case on the wheels you can leave, and the restriction of up to 20 parts.

Here the problem arises that most players, including me, take ready -made cars, because one way or another the process of creating a car is long and not entirely convenient, although not badly visualized.

At the time of completion of the creation of the character, we are thrown into the open world with dynamic weather and sid with quests for collecting objects or delivery of passengers to improve the car. Improvement is certainly good, but enemies are also not standing still, so there is a feeling of progress only in speed numbers. The weather is super, but it causes the wildest lags I have And the press has those times. But even so it is possible to enjoy the physics of the car in flight.

A few words about the plot tie: there is Racer From the first part we overtaken in the final of the career regime. It is sad with this fact, so it transforms in trance and flies into the world Xarax, where he declares himself the champion of all worlds.

We had 5 locations, 24 routes, 17 rivals and 4 bosses to pass. Each location is painstakingly recreated from real Lego sets, except for the world Xarax, which is an arena. In each of the worlds, you can choose only one type of transport.

Side missions and gold bricks are scattered around the world, which will be used in the same purpose later Lego Star Wars. If you collect all 35, then there will be a salute in the final and that’s it. In the process of pure passage without side effects, approximately 2/3 are collected at the speedrains.

If in the side mission to collect balls in the Arctic to collect 5 out of 5 balls accommodated in transport, then the car will fly away.

But all this is a prelude to the cool children’s arcade races with Destruction transport. And after all, the car breaks to the last part, and then it remains to run on foot to the pit stop. And for balance, with loss of strength, nitro is given. It is very simple to injure: with any jump or stirring the wall/opponent/dinosaurs in the jungle, not to mention the pile of bonuses arranged throughout the highway. Now the bonuses look like a white brick and you can either stop the bonus roulette on time and get the right one, or wait and get a bonus corresponding to your position. The farther from the leading position of the race, the better the bonus will fall. There are 7 of them in total and all are configured either to slow down/destruction of the enemy, or acceleration/protection of oneself.

Six of the bonuses have alternative use. So you can call and fly to the torpedo;With the help of invisibility, steal other people’s bonuses;and shoot back.

The game is not without problems. For example, you can’t drive past a control point, and this is very simple with local physics on an open location. Even so, there is a race with Yetty, Ring Ramps and sites with Zero gravity.
Alas, technical flaws took their own, which badly affected the press and users assessments compared to the first part. Even the music that plays now on the background is not taken from Lego Racers 2, And from the first part.

This game occupies a special place in my heart, but now I could not launch it with normal FPS because of which I had to watch a few Longplay-es and speedranes. Fans Like me They still love this game. Even StopGame users sign under this:

The version for GBA is the same in fact, but with small differences. And the version for PS2 started like this:

My favorite children’s arcade race is Pac-Man World Rally, which I remembered in the process of writing, downloaded, rolled a couple of modes and cried.

And Gleb, Vasya, well, finally answer:

The farther to the jungle … Lego changed the slogan with “Just imagine …” on “Play”, But they don’t fit with games. In the same year, the second episode of the Star Wars will be released, which for our history of the series is the reverse report to the same game ..
The series missed precisely in this part of the history of the series Soccer Mania/Football Mania. And now we will return to the crypt and strange new projects, the release of which is accompanied by TV shows.

Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension

It is worth starting from far away. Firstly, this game is adaptation of the TV series. Secondly, Lego signed under this and published toys. Toys were failed, which is described in detail in English here. If you don’t have time or you don’t know English, it’s okay, I’ll just leave a photo of the toy that you already have before your eyes:

And we are here for games, so we below the Mariana antenatal cavity, from a failure and not even finished even the first season of the series, from a failed series of toys, and from the notching game.

Inside the game it is already terribly on the menu Picture called. You still have to get used to the local schedule. The plot is simple: we control the spaceship in the spatial tunnel, we are hit, we lose almost all friends and we need to return them, simultaneously collecting an space egg.

One of the friends of the protagonist is called Kek.

The main character named Nick Blutuz Stylish, fashionable, youth It has the ability to clawTcha: killing enemies, get their abilities. Having killed the pitching, you can get a bitsukha, and by crushing the frog you get her paws with a high jump height. These abilities are needed to pass the platform sections. In addition to the above, you can get a hook-cat, blaster and wings that will appear directly on the hero, but the time of their use is limited by energy knocked out of enemies. It seems like pumping is present here, but for this you need to get a lot of flasks scattered throughout the level. Management does not obey the change, so you have to jump on “l” until the end of the game, but in general it is convenient. A hook-cat is also technically terribly realized, because of which I abandoned the passage, and because of which speedrankers lose minutes to pass.

Upon receipt of damage, the hero sounds one to one as a character from Lego Star Wars.

Gameplay in my ability this game reminds me “Cloudy, precipitation in the form of meatballs” is possible “, And in complexity “Tsyplenka Tsypa”. And the series itself “Legend of the Seeker”. I liked it because it was the first game that started without lags and without a miniiigr. Well, the obvious gamed resemblance to Lego Star Wars Makes his own. Collect the “coins”, kill enemies, light platforming using the characteristics of the hero and the Castcens at the head of the corner.

Personally, I had a problem with the search for the menu button – PAUSE. It is impossible to persist in the process of missions, and the camera is located on the numbered, which is absent on my laptop, but the car frame saves the situation.

Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension I also went out on GBA And satisfied with high quality. They were going to release it on PS2 And on GC, But financial failures decided everything for the publisher.

Island Xtreme Stunts

Dean Roskell. In my opinion, an exhaustive description for this game, but for the unbearable I will explain. He was a producer and chief designer Island Xtreme Stunts on PC And GBA, And in the future he will participate in the development Dragon Age: Inquisition And Mass Effect: Andromeda Designer-killer.

Initially, then still Lego Island 3, It was about the silk road in the footsteps of Marco Polo, but after some market tests we were fired, but we hired to make a tricel differently. The design of this game, unlike Lego Island 2, should have been more like Zelda Ocarina of Time,.. then he retells the concept one to one The Legend of Zelda 1986

As a result, the game was renamed in Island Xtreme Stunts for marketing reasons, and the word lego as such is absent in the very name.

In general, to the game. Finally move on skate faster than foot. You can make stunts on a skate. But according to the speedran, the high FPS does not allow tricks, so you need a LOK for 60. All this is needed on the way from one miniogra to another. Each of which you need to go 3 times.

Here we made such a card initially. Unfortunately, due to a lack of time and resources, we had to focus on mini-games. Human forces on the gameplay of the island itself did not remain at all.

The game has a Toy function described above in Lego Island 2, There are shadows and terrible faces from the category of an ominous valley. In the version on GBA There was no familiar method of moving, but there was a more complicated system of passing not the most convenient miniiygra several times. I should also talk about how bad everything is?

The game did not start on PC, Was a black screen on an emulator PS2, A GBA The version is simply unbearable. As IGN said to the review of this game “there are better titles for children”.