LEGO is taking over the video game industry!
With games based on major film franchises including Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman along with their other usual titles based on board games like Chess and their original toy sets such as Bionicles, LEGO is pushing even deeper into the biggest industry in home entertainment with their own Massively Multiplayer Online title: LEGO Universe.
The idea of an MMO based on the LEGO brand seems like the perfect idea. Everything in the world could be customized, down to the parts of your character and you could (read: should) be able to literally build a world, from houses to cars, pirate ships to space trains.
CES 2010 begins this week and the game will be at the Las Vegas event with beta sign-ups, hands-on demos and the premiere game trailer.
Imagine the money they can make by adding in their big licenses where they could allow for microtransactions to buy an X-Wing in Space?! Better yet, you could do that with your friends?
The game is confirmed to have co-operative based quests as opposed to player-vs-player action (remember the target audience here, folks) and your character does level up with experience. At level 30, you can customize weapons for your ninjas or pirates. When I think ninjas and pirates, I want PvP included…
If this game does what I think it should and is as open and free as I hope for, I’ll definitely be playing this game.
What do you think?
LEGO Universe is planned to release in the second half of 2010 and Game Rant will build you a boat to party on. It will launch on PC first and later on the consoles with a pay-as-you-go subscription plan.
Source: Massively
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If it lets your build your own custom buildings, vehicles, etc, from the various LEGO pieces then this will be one of the greatest MMOs around. If however you can only use ‘prebuilt’ items, buildings, vehicles, etc, especially if it forces you to buy a lot of them, then I have no interest in it.
As an 'OG' legomaniac, I have to say that this makes my mind go wild. To think that before you built it in the game you could actually build it in real life! OMG! WTF! You could actually build a real life replica of the Lego MMO Universe! (At quite the cost; have you seen the price of Lego these days!) The possibilities are endless! I think tomorrow I am going to stop by my parents house and pick up all my old lego blocks. Time to get started on some design and prototype work on for the new Lego Space station Tau Alpha Bell
this actually looks pretty cool and ill probally try it when it comes out. the price seems a bit steep though(10 bucks a month or 90 a year) as there are seirous games like eve online that go for about the same. i think a micro transaction system or maybe advertisments to reduce the price would be a good idea, as parents might not want to spend that kind of money for a game for kids.
or maybe a free version and an expanded member verison, tha usually works well if you make it fair.