There's not this strong adherence to adapting the story or forcing the playable characters down long hallways with a specific purpose. The open world isn’t nearly as restrictive. The open world sections do feel a lot more lively than anything in the campaign. Not everything about LEGO The Incredibles is hopeless. There are times when it works but when a brash LEGO joke follows a cute Pixar one or worse, replaces it, the difference is jarring. LEGO The Incredibles attempts to meld the sophomoric tone of LEGO games with the family-friendly tone of Pixar throughout the cutscenes of the campaign. The new voice cast is very talented but they can't help but be compared to the cinematic version and come up wanting because the tones of LEGO and Pixar doesn't exactly fit. A voice cast is used for the minifigure characters in LEGO The Incredibles, some even played by movie actors including Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul), but the talent are used to recreate or repeat what was done before (and done better) in the movies. The repetitive nature of the story missions definitely isn't helped by the fact that LEGO The Incredibles follows the plots of movies very closely. Yet most of LEGO The Incredibles is a rinse-and-repeat type of game design that gets very boring, very quickly for anyone whose age is in double digits. There are some moments of creativity and levity in the story missions, such as sections where Elastigirl rides her motorcycle or baby Jack-Jack engages in a superpowered showdown with racoon. Jack-Jack filling the role that his mom played in the movie isn't nearly enough to justify the multiple playthroughs necessary to get every collectible. However, replaying a story mission, even with a radically different character, is still more of the same. Free Play Mode offers use of new characters that have their own special skills and they are unlocked through other means (more on that in a bit). To get all the minikits, golden blocks and studs in LEGO The Incredibles requires playing the missions again in Free Play Mode. Of course, there are still the same collectibles that are scattered throughout every LEGO game in LEGO The Incredibles missions. Violet can traverse over toxic waste but she's not the only character with that type of ability. These character abilities sound exciting but they don't really add much to the game. They follow the same repeated pattern of entering a new area, smashing the attack button to destroy everyone and everything in that area, doing some light but very floaty platforming and then lastly building something (by holding down a button) or using a character’s special skill (by holding down a button). The missions unfold in the same very linear fashion. Although other more recent LEGO games have done something clever and interesting with their story missions and level design, LEGO The Incredibles takes the easy and expected path through each of its 10 story missions, each of which take about an 45 minutes to an hour to complete. At least two playable characters are provided, and each mission can be played in solo or co-op modes. A cutscene, usually remixing a scene from the movie, opens them and then quest begins. The campaign plays out exactly as it does in all other LEGO Games. The other half of the game is an open world section that tasks players with exploring the large city map of Municiberg and Urbem.Though the better section, by far, is the open world material, the main thrust of the game is the campaign missions. These start out adapting the plot of The Incredibles 2 and then loop back around to the first film. The first half are the campaign missions. LEGO The Incredibles is broken up into two sections. Related: Why Incredibles 2 Is Pixar's Most Disappointing Sequel
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