The earth’s mightiest heroes movie remix

​Traveller's Tales games have come back with yet another LEGO, and, this time, its Avengers straight out of Marvel’s cinematic Universe

Traveller’s Tales (TT) is at back again with another LEGO game. Unlike its 2013's predecessor LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, which featured an original story of a sort, TT is now adapting the Marvel Cinematic Universe for this new title ... Kinda.

Yep, there is Ironman bringing the party to you, while Hulk tells cap, that he is always angry. All of it, like you were there… like you were one of them…. like you were a LEGO…

In LEGO Marvel's Avengers, players will play through the events of Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as select moments from other Marvel films, like ‘Thor: The Dark World’, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and ‘Iron Man 3’. Here many of the game's campaign levels all pulled off from the movies you loved.

It follows the same rough format as past titles, with a few added bits of panache (like more cinematic attacks and sequences) for good measure. You probably know the drill by now -- multiple characters are on-screen at a time, all of which sport several attacks, but they have slightly different ways of going about it.

For instance, Captain America and Hulk are both melee fighters, but Cap will be able to reflect beams, and Hulk can smash through giant machinery. Iron Man and Thor excel at the range and can fly, but the former can melt metal with his beams. You get the idea.

Playing with a partner will enhance your experience tenfold as you can operate in tandem with one another, as going at it solo puts a damper on things by forcing you to switch characters often. That's even truer for Avengers, where the two-person synergy attacks (like Thor slamming into Cap's shield for a shockwave) are that much more satisfying.

The focus on Marvel's comic characters proves to be the game's saving grace. With 17 games and counting in the franchise, TT's LEGO video game formula is about as tried and true as they come. If you've played a LEGO game in the past six years, you know what to expect here: you punch your way through bad guys, use character skills to solve puzzles and laugh it off. It all works well enough, but there is a very definite feel of "been here, done that" to the entire experience that will turn some players off.

The best part, the LEGO franchise's signature silly humor, is intact. Interactions and events play out in a similar manner, so there aren't a lot of surprises, but additional jokes and a general sense of lightheartedness actually elevate a few dud portions of the films. As such, every cutscene brings a smile to my face and helps break up the repetition a bit.

You wouldn’t mind the shift from the gibberish "LEGO speak" of the past into full voice acting, as Traveller's Tales has always maintained the same tone successfully. It's definitely cool, and it's during these moments when LEGO Marvel's Avengers is at its best. Finding obscure Marvel characters, teaming them up with more obscure heroes for crazy co-op attacks and roaming the open-world New York City is a certain kind of comic book nerd wish fulfillment that is hard to find in any other game.

Squirrel Girl with Devil Dinosaur? That kid from Iron Man 3 plus Fin Fang Foom? The possibilities feel nearly endless. The characters from shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter also get plenty of love. The fact that you can make your own custom superhero using all the various parts of other characters in the game, and you have a comic book playground that will bring a smile to almost any superhero fan's face.

If you're a huge fan of Marvel movies, comics and characters, LEGO Marvel's Avengers is worth checking out just to indulge in the wall-to-wall fan service. It's as solid a LEGO game as there has ever been, but if you think the LEGO game formula is starting to grow old, TT's latest, unfortunately, isn't going to change your mind.