Playing as dinos is smashing fun
Gentle but classic Lego puzzling
Plodding about the hub encꦇlosures as a brachios🌊aurus
Too much roster filler
Rubbish compy brawls
Replaying chases to get that last minikit
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“‘Oooh, ahh.’ That’s how it always starts, but then later there’s running and screaming.” These pithy words, delivered by professional mumbler and amateur shirt wearer Jeff Goldblum as Dr Ian Malcolm, are describing the act of encountering formerly-extinct dinosaurs in the flesh, but serve as a decent precis of Lego Jurassic World, too. As the least combative Lego game to date, the four films recreated in block form -- Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic World -- here swap regularly between the ooh of playing as plastic dinosaurs, and pegging it away from gigantic liza🥃rds as fast as blocky little legs can carry you. Screaming optional.
Which is just as well, because when the fighting does start, it’s far from a highlight. Admittedly, no one comes to this series for the combat, but in the past, ꩵLego games have had swashbuckling pirates, swashbuckling archeology professors and swashbuckling Jedi. Knee-high compsognathus (‘compys’ to their friends, if they had any) that you’ll struggle to land a claw hand on aren’t quite the same, though they’re used sparingly enough that they’re more pest than irritance.
Instead, you’ll get to immerse yourself with minimal interruption into a classic slice of Lego puzzling, one pared back to a simpler time than Lego Batman 3’s hyperkinetic suit-switching superteam. Unless you’re one of the 12 people left who has yet to play one of these games, you know the basics already: it’s a case of figuring which of the cast has the power that matches the obstacle at hand, spiced with pummeling all the Lego in the area into glorious🔜ly satisfying rains of clacking stud money, and occasionally building something. The difference here is that ‘cast’ isn’t just paleobotanists willing to rummage around in mounds of dino poo, or archaeologists who can use Lego bones to build special structures. It’s dinosaurs too.
They are the coolest addition to a Lego game in ages. Unlocked by finding the chunk of Lego amber in each level, each new addition to your roster of terrible lizards feels like a little treat -- and it’s been ages since I last felt compelled to scour a Lego game for a collectible like this. Raptors, clever girls that they are, are the most flexible, able to build Lego structures for🙈, um, reasons, but also pounce onto special rails and sniff clouds of scent to reveal trails to new objects or objectives. Dilophosaurus spit venom, used on bubbling green objects. Pachycephalosaurus use their bone dome to shatter cracked structures. It’s little you couldn’t already do, but each beast recaptures that quintessential charm of being rendered in Lego that has sustain⛦ed a laundry list of games.
It’s not only InGen who can meddle with the natural order of things: you can splice your own custom dinos. It’s a bit like making custom minifigs in past games, allowing you to mix and match the body parts you’ve unlocked -- swapping the head of a triceratops onto the body of a velociraptor, say. You can also change their skin patterns (cow print anyone?) and colouration. But in a lovely touch, you can fiddle with genomes, produci🦩ng all kinds of wonderfully bright abominations.
| Genre | Adventure |
| UK censor rating | "","","","","","","","" |
| Franchise name | LEGO |
| US censor rating | "Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending","Rating Pending" |
| Platform | "Xbox One","PS4","3DS","Wii U","PS Vita","Xbox 360","PS3","PC" |
| UK franchise name | LEGO |
| Description | The Jurassic world park brought to life through the world of LEGO. |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
