The emphasis on sword fighting and puzzle solving with LEGO blocks also tends to mean that aside from the occasional cannon fire from ships, there’s not a whole lot of work for the subwoofer to do either. Don’t expect much use of the surround speakers in the same vein as a first person shooter. Generally speaking, the rest of the sound is safe, but not inspired. As to be expected, the game borrows heavily from the soundtracks of the films represented, and this works enormously well to carry players into the LEGO-fied conceit of the movies. The audio side of the game is similarly in line with past Traveller’s Tales games. That one visual quibble aside, what’s here is not a beautiful game, but it’s not bad looking either. Conceptually, it sounds like a good idea, but in practice it feels disorienting and it’s easy to get lost once it occurs. The split, however, “follows” the players, so if one character heads northwest, while another heads southeast, a diagonal split will form.
Most co-op games simply split the screen either horizontally or vertically for either player from beginning to end, but here, as long as players are close to each other, they “share” the same screen, and a split only occurs once they move away from each other. There’s also an option to play the game in local co-op with an interesting, but ultimately problematic presentation. It’s a serviceable game in the graphics department, but considering the series has always been aimed at a younger crowd, it doesn’t really need to wow discriminating players with a hyper-attentive level of detail. The frame rate is steady, but there’s some noticeable screen tearing here and there, an unexpected disappointment considering this game isn’t exactly pushing the visual envelope.
However, there’s a surprising amount of decent art direction going on, with good lighting, reasonably detailed textures, and even a few frills like motion blur. All the major plot points of each film are hit with the usual Traveller’s goofiness that has served them well in past titles like the Star Wars and Harry Potter games, so if you’re young, or young at heart, that same sense of safe whimsy is present here.Īs with other LEGO titles, this isn’t a top-tier graphical powerhouse the nature of the simple LEGO blocks lends itself well to that. Here, all four Pirate films are represented starting with the original Depp/Bloom/Knightly trinity in the first three to the new Depp-only headliner that is the recently released fourth film.
The game-like previous Traveller’s Tales adaptations-takes LEGO mini-figs and retells the story of the film franchise with slapstick, comedy twists.
There’s not much to talk about in terms of the story.
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