The Wii U GamePad is used to further progress with multiple features, including scanning for LEGO brick locations, taking photo evidence, and tuning into private conversations. LEGO bricks are used to complete "superbuilds", which vary in use when completed, such as a structure to summon vehicles or stunt ramps. A rarer form of currency, LEGO bricks, are also hidden and often require more difficult platforming or puzzle-solving to collect. Studs can be used to purchase new vehicles that can be summoned and used at the player's discretion. LEGO studs serve as the game's common currency, and can be found in the environment or by solving puzzles. The player is allowed to use any vehicle in the environment to reach their location, including boats, helicopters, and the vehicles of other citizens. In the overworld, puzzles and collectibles are also hidden, such as timed challenges and car chases. For example, the miner disguise can smash through boulders with its pickaxe, and the criminal disguise can break through doors with its crowbar. As the game progresses Chase McCain learns new abilities in the form of "disguises" that replicate occupations and personas the abilities from the disguises are used in levels and exploring previously inaccessible content and areas in the overworld.
Chase McCain can engage in combat with criminals that require button combinations to fight them. Each level has a set of linear objectives that must be completed to reach the end, that involve solving puzzles, building and breaking LEGO bricks, and platforming challenges. Lego City serves as an overworld that contains levels set in different environments split up in 20 districts. Chase McCain goes on the hunt for criminals, with various moves at his disposal, such as swinging across poles and performing wall jumps. Taking place in Lego City, the player controls an undercover cop named Chase McCain tasked with detaining the criminal Rex Fury. The original Wii U version had sold over one million copies worldwide as of 2019.Ĭhase engages in combat with aggressive prisoners. The game received positive reviews for its story, humour, and evolved gameplay formula, and criticism for the lack of co-op options and varying technical issues. The remastered version, which included local two-player multiplayer, was announced in 2016 and released in April 2017. Lego City Undercover released in March 2013 worldwide, and Japan in July. The 3DS version became a standalone prequel, titled Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins. Additional info was shown throughout 2012 and E3 2012 and was also officially renamed to Lego City Undercover. The game was originally announced at E3 2011 as Lego City Stories for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo was generally hands-off with the development process but would receive updates and suggest changes.
The Lego City hub was based on multiple real locations. The script, written by Graham Goring, made extensive use of parody and reference to both crime shows, and other movies and television series.
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At the time production began, it was to be the first title featuring voice acting, and it was the first in the TT Games Lego series not to rely on a movie or comic license. Gameplay features McCain both exploring the open world hub of Lego City, and completing self-contained levels featuring puzzles and combat.Īfter satisfactory technical advancements and the completion of other Lego video games featuring existing IPs, the first prototypes for Lego City Undercover were produced in 2010, with development beginning in 2011 after Nintendo approached parent company TT Games about developing for the Wii U.
Based on the City themed toyline by Lego, the narrative follows police officer Chase McCain as he returns to Lego City and pursues escaped crime boss Rex Fury.
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It was later re-released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows via Steam, and Xbox One by Warner Bros. Lego City Undercover is an action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion and published by Nintendo for the Wii U in 2013. Single-player, multiplayer (2017 version only).
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