Eu queria muito estar no dia que tiveram a ideia pra LEGO City. Certeza que alguém pensou num "GTA da LEGO", mas tiveram que criar toda uma história maluca de um policial infiltrado que comete mais crimes que todos os criminosos da história.

Mesmo com essa proposta maluca, ele é um sólido joguinho de LEGO. É o mesmo formato de outros jogos da TT, mas com uma trama mais original (que permite mais loucuras) e esse mundo aberto na forma da cidade que é bem interessante de explorar.

Pelo menos, um pouco, já que eu tentei ir atrás de fazer 100% nele mas cansei chegando nos 60%. No fim das contas, o jogo é meio repetitivo, principalmente sem a historia bobinha por trás para garantir as coisas. É um bom jogo de LEGO e era o que eu precisava pra relaxar.

Most Lego games feel like repeats of the previous entry with a different theme. LEGO City Undercover is not only the first original game in the series, but it's the first game to actually feel like a new game. That being said, it's still lacking in comparison to other AAA open world titles. Some of this game's errors can be excused due to its toy-like nature such as the floaty driving, but it has many faults in the main campaign. This game's idea of variety is the same shallow mechanics again and again. The disguise system is a cool feature, allowing players to swap between any character in the game, but the game relies too heavily on it. It isn't a good foundation, and as a result the gameplay suffers. The usual monotony is broken up by driving sections and cutscenes, which pushed me to finish to the end. Speaking of cutscenes, the real winner of this game is surprisingly the story and soundtrack. The characters are uniquely interesting, and Chase McCain serves as a great protagonist. It has wit, charm, and is frequently funny even with a few jokes deliberately aimed at children. The story follows Chase trying to get his redemption at policework after a mishap a few years ago. He then must go undercover as he infiltrates mobs in order to get intel about the supposed villain, Rex Fury. What's cool is how the story takes its time to set the pieces and introduce new plot points before knocking it down. The soundtrack really shocked me with its various songs that mesh well into what's happening on screen. It has this song for the final part that I'm not gonna spoil, but god damn. LEGO City is pretty dense with a variety of scenery all while still feeling like the same game due to great graphical consistency. The same strategy from the main story is applied here, but this time with much better execution. There are 450 collectables not counting characters, vehicles, and extras. The things you can do aren't very wild, but it's the way the game cycles through them that makes it entertaining. You won't walk 10 steps without bumping into a new minigame or unlockable for you to do. It is worth mentioning that the open world can be pretty restrictive at times, especially in helicopters. LEGO City is probably TT's finest work period. It isn't the most in depth, showstopping game, but if you're looking for an experimental open world game, you can't go wrong with this shockingly good title.

LEGO games and open world settings seem like a match made in heaven... and that's absolutely the case. Out of all the LEGO games I've played (including those when I was in the target audience) this was by far the most engaging. GTA meets the collectathon and puzzle-solving elements of the LEGO series. Just 2 non-gameplay complaints stop this from being perfect in my eyes:

1) I understand that this is a kids game, so you've got to keep everything lighthearted, but a lot of good storybeats are ruined by pointless gags and cheap laughs when they could've made certain parts pretty epic or poignant. Although most of the time it's fine, at the most tense moments it's such an act of self-sabotage as the plot while not remarkable could've been something say more gripping than it ends up being.

2) I understand that this game tries to go for the whole "making fun of everyone equally" thing, but... the Asian characters come off as very poorly done. They all have names like "Ching" and "Ping" and the accents are uncomfortable, performed by someone who is clearly not Asian and just putting on what comes across as a potentially racist accent. Not really acceptable in my opinion and I cringed most of the time these characters were in screen. I wouldn't say these characters were acceptable in 2013, and certainly not by the time this game was re-released in 2017. An unfortunate blemish on what is otherwise a great game.

Já pensou como seria um GTA de Lego? Este jogo traz uma experiência similar, dentro das características que os demais jogos Lego possuem.

É absurda a quantidade de segredos que esse jogo tem, que vão desde os 450 tijolos dourados, centenas de personagens e veículos e dezenas de extras/trapaças. Quase tudo nesse jogo rende progresso no percentual de completude do jogo.
Por falar em trapaças, feliz seja quem teve a idéia de adicionar o extra de fazer a color pistol não exigir troca de cor, pois ô habilidade chata de manipular no mundo aberto. Só faltou ter uma trapaça pra ter dinamite no bolso o tempo inteiro (ou tinha e eu não encontrei).
Infelizmente o jogo tem problemas de performance, rodando a 60fps nas fases fechadas e a 30fps e caindo no mundo aberto. Além disso, o jogo crasha em alguns momentos, dando um certo receio de ter corrompido o save.
No mais, como todo bom Lego, o humor é um ponto forte. Houveram vários momentos que dei risada com piada boba e com as referências de obras famosas (alô The Shawshank Redemption). Gostaria de uma sequência em que corrigissem as idéias que não deram muito certo e sem os problemas de performance, com certeza seria um grande jogo.

LEGO's take on the Grand Theft Auto formula. Not actually that bad. Since TT Games had previously mastered being able to create a vast overworld with LEGO Batman 2, it makes sense that they would utilize that again, this time with their own original world and characters. The story is nothing to write home about, but its pretty satisfactory for a family-oriented game. The cutscenes and dialogue continue to utilize that LEGO humor that you'd normally expect from one of their games, this time with references to various movies and TV shows. There are some issues, specifically with the nuisance that is traveling the open world to find optional Gold Bricks (a problem that would continue to affect future LEGO installments) and my personal distaste towards the more "animated" combat style. It's a good LEGO experience, keeping up with the charm that the previous games had, as well as the ones that came after it.

I've always been tolerant of the Lego games, they seemed to dominate the (Non-Mario) platformer genre for a while just by being competent, humorous games for all ages. As in, ALL AGES.

However, Lego City Undercover will always hold a special place as one of my favorite games ever. 10-year-old me was doubled over with cramps from laughing at just the first cutscene, and the game never stopped impressing me, even now I can barely remember all the characters and plot points.

This is really one of the funniest games I can think of, and probably has more fun crime movie references and things to do driving around its world than its 2013 counterpart GTA V. The latter game of course more cynical and grounded but nowhere near as fun or carefree. One of these days I'll 100% it and relive all the fun I had as a kid through all of its great chapters, from the dock to the dojo to the prison to the ice cream shop to the museum to the space station to... well I don't wish to spoil it, but the final confrontation between Chase McCain and Rex Fury.

LEGO games have always had a charm with large franchises like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Harry Potter. While they were all easy, they were just plain fun for all ages and had humor for the grown-ups as well. Undercover is about as close as a kid-friendly Grand Theft Auto as you will get. Being the spiritual successor to LEGO Island from way back in the day, LEGO City actually has a very memorable cast of characters and a fun story. The city is full of life and there’s a lot to do here.

You play as Chase McCain, a LEGO City cop who has to bring Rex Fury back to jail, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Chase goes undercover and works for various mob bosses to bring himself one step closer. In the meantime, his shaky love for Natalia Kowalski drives him further as he needs to find her father. My favorite character is Frank Honey. He’s the stupid comic relief for Chase and the dialog is just downright witty. The very first cutscene had me busting up laughing. Despite the child-friendly LEGO sheen, the game has humor towards adults. I honestly really enjoyed the lengthy story, but the gameplay satisfies as well.

The game consists of having several different disguises. From a cop to a fireman, astronaut, robber, miner, construction worker, and various others. Each of these has abilities you need to play through the story and find secret hidden Super Blocks, costumes, and vehicles. You will see an icon on the ground for the tool you need. A fireman can chop down boarded up doors, the robber can pry open doors, use his stethoscope to crack safes, and has a color changing gun. The cop has a grappling hook, the miner can use dynamite and break open boulders. Every disguise has a purpose and by the end of the game, you will be swapping them constantly to advance through the levels.

Now, the game is very easy and simple, but it’s still fun. Combat consists of just pressing Y and countering with X. You can throw enemies, but you need to cuff them with A once they are down. You can’t really die in the game, once you lose all four hearts you just respawn in the same spot with no penalties like all LEGO games. Combat just gets tedious because of how easy it is, but it’s broken up with lots of platforming. Advancing your way requires you to use your abilities, but there aren’t any hard puzzles in the game at all. You just open this safe, take this key here, pry open this door, gather required amount of superblocks, build this super build, and various other platforming shenanigans. Nothing really complicated, but it’s all just plain fun and relaxing.

When you’re not on missions you can drive around in dozens of vehicles, jack them from people a la Grand Theft Auto, drive around finding hidden items with your disguises, and that’s about it, but there are dozens of hours of gameplay…if you’re a completionist. Because the Wii U doesn’t have an achievement system you may blow through the main story and never look back. There are 450 Gold Bricks which are gained by doing various tasks around LEGO City, some people may not have that kind of patience.

What about the Wii U gamepad? There are some interesting ideas put into it like using it to scan the city for hidden bricks by holding it up to the TV, you can take screenshots, and use it as an audio scanner during the story. Your contacts will call you on your gamepad and they will appear and speak through it which is neat, but not necessary for gameplay. There’s no gamepad only play which will disappoint some.

This game is obviously geared toward kids, but adults who love platformers or even sandbox games will have a blast. The story has many references for adults like a Morgan Freeman sound-alike during the prison stage just like Shawshank Redemption. Towards the end of the game, a site foreman sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger and uses his movie titles as puns. Kids wouldn’t get this, but parents would and it’s just hilarious. There are other funny story elements like the Italian mafia deals in ice cream instead of drugs, and a Starsky and Hutch type duo show up halfway through. It’s all very funny and has some characters that have more depth than violent AAA games for adults.

In the end, Undercover is just a fun relaxing game that doesn’t take itself seriously. It has solid mechanics, dozens of hours of gameplay, great graphics, and a lively city to play around in. The characters are memorable, and while there’s not much of a challenge, it’s just fun and full of solid gameplay.

I am glad that I'm not the only one that substituted this as GTA at a time that I was not allowed to play the game, as the game is honestly a great sandbox game. I don't really remember anything about the story but the city and exploration is what makes this game so incredibly fun and why I played it so much. The area you can explore is honestly pretty huge and you have a lot of free reign to do and go wherever. There is also a lot of detail in the world, so its not lacking substance either in the areas that you can explore, and there are tons of sidequests and even a lot of one-off areas, and just overall a ton to do in the game if you really want to.