It may not bring anything new to the table, but The Lego Movie Videogame takes some of the best elements from the series and delivers it all in a charming package anyone will want to play with." Saldana had minor criticisms of the game he disliked the smaller amount of content (compared to other Lego games) and said glitches can ruin the fun. Its action-packed stages will keep you on your toes, and all those cheeky quips from its characters are guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Giancarlo Saldana of GamesRadar awarded the game a 4/5, writing: " The Lego Movie Videogame is one of the better movie tie-in games out there, and it may even get you to see the film if you haven’t already. Thankfully, both are fun in their own right." He stated: " The LEGO Movie Videogame does a decent job telling the movie's story and being its own licensed tie-in game – to its own licensed tie-in movie. In his generally average review for Destructoid, Ian Bonds scored the game a 7.5 out of 10. He called it a "visual marvel" while praising the graphics, characters, and soundtrack. He said that some aspects of the game were "boring", and that the game's "diverse backdrops and heroes devolve into tedium and busywork." Game Informer's Andrew Reiner gave the game a positive score of 8 out of 10 in his review. Īndrew Hayward of IGN gave the game a 6.5 out of 10, calling it "Okay". Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the PlayStation 4 version 71/100, the Xbox One version 69/100, and the Xbox 360 version 69/100. The Lego Movie Videogame received positive reviews from critics. Other abilities include using switches as Lord Business in either his Lord or President Business forms, fixing machinery, hacking into computers, destroying gold bricks with lasers, destroying silver bricks with rockets or dynamite, starting fires, and putting out fires. Master Builders, on the other hand, have the ability to grab Lego pieces from the environment and use them to create something new.
Using these, players follow the instructions to build objects with specific pieces like real-life LEGO sets. Regular Builders are unable to normally construct objects out of piles of Lego pieces and instead require instruction pages that are found throughout each level for the construction worker characters to use.
The game introduces two main new character types: Regular Builders (such as Emmet in earlier levels) and Master Builders (such as Batman, Benny, Princess Uni-Kitty, Vitruvius, and Wyldstyle). For the first time in the series, environments, aside of the bonus area, are completely made out of Lego pieces. Continuing the trend of gameplay from previous Lego titles by TT Games, the game puts players in control of various characters from the movie, utilizing Lego pieces to make their way through several levels.