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There are hundreds of city blocks that make up Lego CityвЂ™s open world, and a dizzying variety of backdrops вЂ“ docks and wharfs, residential and rural areas, a downtown core вЂ“ to visit and explore, most of it made out of Lego. The story has charm and the occasional big chuckle and will likely captivate kids, but merely give seasoned gamers an acceptable context for the next set of mission activities.

ThereвЂ™s the grouchy police captain, the incredibly resourceful dispatcher who always has some new experimental tech, a bumbling sidekick, the old flame with whom Chase canвЂ™t keep his composure, rooftop chases. Now Rex is back, and Chase and his unorthodox methods have returned to clean up the mess.

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With its many familiar cop movie tropes (and a вЂ™70s cop movie soundtrack), Lego City Undercover tells the story of uber-cop/Lego figurine Chase McCain, a department legend who once took down super-villain Rex Fury, while someone else took the credit. Lego City Undercover nails the best aspects of open world games in its own way, and with the inclusion of Lego building mechanics, it feels enough like its own thing rather than a sanitized version of an existing thing. Was it going to feel like a wussed-out version of something IвЂ™ve already experienced? That said, when I realized LCU was essentially a family-friendly GTA, I wondered if that was going to work.

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But thereвЂ™s none of the violence and R-rated themes that put that series in the crosshairs of distraught watchdog groups. YouвЂ™ll find GTAвЂ™s attention to detail, its living and breathing perpetual world that serves as staging area for the gameвЂ™s lengthy story progression, and which conceals thousands of hidden collectibles.

Now donвЂ™t fret, moms and dads вЂ“ Lego City Undercover and GTA are only alike mechanically. In other words, itвЂ™s evident that developer TT Fusion built Lego City Undercover not only as a celebration of all things Lego, but to be an open world game through and through. YouвЂ™re free to (as I did) spend twenty minutes roaming around in the surrounding area first, smashing things and picking up Lego pieces before getting in the car and driving across town to begin your first mission. But you donвЂ™t have to just do as youвЂ™re told. When Lego City UndercoverвЂ™s opening cinematic sequence ends and youвЂ™re set loose in Lego City, the words вЂњPress X to get in the carвЂќ appear on screen (a la GTA). In fact throughout its development, the Wii U open-world adventure Lego City Undercover carried the working title Lego City Stories, clearly cribbing from Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, entries in the infamous Grand Theft Auto series by Rockstar Games. It might as well be called Grand Theft Lego.

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