GamesBeat has a pair of new articles published for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2. The site went hands-on with the game, and shared a bunch of information from the demo event. We’ve rounded up the various tidbits below.
– Takes place in Chronopolis
– This is a city where all of the realities converge
– A villain named Kang wants to rule everything
– Threatens the whole Marvel Universe
– That story becomes the reason why you can play hundreds of Marvel characters in the game in an effort to stop Kang
– Much bigger than the original 2013 game
– Start out as the Guardians of the Galaxy
– Switch between characters such as Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, and Baby Groot
– They showed up at the end of the last game because they were focused on “something else”
– That turned out to be the plot of the sequel
– Much bigger open world
– Bigger story
– More level sections, more hidden missions, more open world gameplay
– More voice work
– At least 30 other superheroes come into the campaign story later
– The original branching story was co-written by comic book veteran Kurt Busiek
– It transports players into a cosmic battle across a myriad of Marvel locations ripped from time and space into the open hub world of Chronopolis
– Go head-to-head with the time-travelling Kang the Conqueror through Ancient Egypt, The Old West, Sakaar, New York City in 2099 and other Marvel settings
– Gameplay demo has players switching among the Guardians and figure out how to build a manual override to open a hatch so that we could exit the spaceship
– Deal with a gigantic robot monster, dubbed a Celestial, on the ground
– The Celestial comes down into the city and plants himself on the shoreline
– The Guardians attack, but it’s very hard to tell if they’re doing any damage to the big robot
– The Celestial slams down his fist on the pavement every now and then
– Have to make sure that you’re not in his target zone
– Other smaller bad guys fighting all of the Guardians on the ground as well
– You have to time your attacks so that you can damage the Celestial
– Damage the Celestial’s hand, climb up to its shoulder, mess with a crystal in a box, jump off, and then do some damage to the Celestial’s tummy
– After that, the Celestial goes away
– The team is likely to tweak the level after more testing
– After the first level, you get to go into the open world of Chronopolis and choose your missions
– Been working on the story concept since the first game finished in Fall 2013
– Game development will be about 18 months
– Trying to make things fresh while keeping the LEGO gameplay
– Combat, controls have been overhauled
– Couple of hundred playable characters
– Will be at E3
