LEGO Rock Raiders is designed for building block enthusiasts ages eight and up, features a point-and-click interface and requires a 3D accelerator. To accomplish the mission, you control a fleet of mining vehicles and machines (hover scout, digger, transport truck, rapid rider, laser cutter, tunnel scout, loader dozer, granite grinder, chrome crusher and cargo carrier) and various tools (drill, shovel, hammer, spanner, laser beam, pusher beam, dynamite and freezer beam). To keep the team safe, you need to establish and maintain a Rock Raiders Headquarters and defend it from attack from the menacing denizens of the underground. Your crew of five includes Bandit (navigator and sailor), Docs (geologist), Jet (pilot), Sparks (mechanic) and Axle (machinery operator). Obstacles and dangers lurk around every corner, though, as the precious materials are guarded by several indigenous creatures including Rock, Lava and Ice monsters, Slimy Slugs, bats and spiders. Your objective is to mine tunnels and collect energy crystals and LEGO ore to be used to power and build new machinery. In LEGO Rock Raiders, you lead and control a team of highly trained engineers as they explore three underground worlds consisting of lava, ice and rock.© 2022 Hookshot Media, partner of ReedPop. Join 1,338,679 people following Nintendo Life:
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While there may be over seventy missions to play, they can certainly become repetitive after a while, and the design of the various army sets is such that they pretty much play in a similar way with only the odd variation between sets. Unit pathing can at times be an issue, while the lack of difficulty settings means the AI leans towards the lower end of Average difficulty and could certainly do with some improvement. However, this is not to say that RTS element of the game are without flaws. This does of course add an interesting additional element to the game, adding further replayability for the completionists, and offering up the interesting novelty of letting players create their "ultimate" Lego set. Just like its adventure-based counterparts too, Lego Battles offers the now standard Lego "free play" mode alongside the campaign allowing players to customise their army sets with units and heroes they have unlocked from the campaign's story mode. As with its adventure-based counterparts, Lego Battles doesn’t disappoint in offering up plenty to do for the completionists out there, with twenty blue studs to collect for each level along with mini-kits and various other collectables that need to be found by anyone who wants to get that all-important "100% complete" tag. There are over seventy missions to be unlocked, so there’s definitely plenty here to keep you occupied.
The game mechanics are fairly solid, and while for the hardcore RTS fans out there the game doesn’t offer the depth of strategy and difficulty level of its PC-based strategy counterparts, for a portable version of the RTS genre, Lego Battles is quite a good game.Īt the heart of the game the story mode offers a total of six possible campaigns to play through with six different army "sets" to play as, including the likes of pirates, wizards and even a space set. Ignoring the Lego element of the game at first, Lego Battles does a remarkably good job of implementing real time strategy on the DS.