LEGO Jurassic World

The prehistoric charm dino-saurs this straight to success. [Summer 2015, p.73]

Tt Games created a great gaming tradition that continues with this instalment. Tons of content, great co-op mode, all movies and characters. What more could a Jurassic Park fan ask for?

LEGO Jurassic World could have been a lazy, bungled game that had just been made to lift on the success of the movie. Thankfully that is not the case. The open world is a mess, but the LEGO-charm makes up for a lot of that.

I’m convinced you don’t have to be the world’s biggest fan of the series to enjoy Lego Jurassic World, though it certainly helps. I’d actually bet that people who have dismissed the second and third films as nothing more than cash grabs will gain a new-found appreciation for the movies after playing the Lego-themed campaigns.

It's sense of adventure and sheer generosity of scale mean it's an essential purchase for fans of brick and beast alike. [Aug 2015, p.93]

Small innovations keep Lego Jurassic World interesting - for all ages.

Your typical LEGO game, drenched in that typical Jurassic Park atmosphere we all know and love. Technically, it's not exactly great, but it's still a highly enjoyable experience fans of the franchise will adore.

Another successful, enjoyable and engaging game with popular building blocks in the lead role. LEGO Jurassic World uses established model, but still manages to keep its charm. Famous movie scenes recreated with LEGO can entertain gamers of all ages.

LEGO Jurassic World is a new success in the LEGO video games franchise. This world is gigantic and filled with secrets. Any fan of the movies will enjoy its references and humor.

Lego Jurassic World will make you live a dream and a nightmare at the same time ... but it's important to have good legs to escape.

LEGO Jurassic World hits all the right notes on the nostalgia scale by providing gamers with faithful recreations of the four movies in the series for a really fun experience, but there is really nothing brick breaking this time around.

TT Games captures the spirit of the four Jurassic movies in a funny videogame with an excellent co op play. But it´s very similar to the other LEGO games.

Jurassic World is a bit more constrained when compared to recent LEGO titles. There’s less open world exploration and more linear gameplay design. What it lacks in exploration, it makes up for with story, presentation and quick gameplay design.

LEGO Jurassic World strikes an excellent balance between delivering a nostalgic take on a beloved series of movies, whilst incorporating the brand new Jurassic World storyline.

Well, it's another Lego game by Traveller's Tales. And it's just like the other ones, but with a different license. You get extra points for dinosaurs, but other than that, it feels like a deja-vu through and through. [Aug 2015]

There's always something special in the way LEGO transform every saga, but maybe for Traveller's Tale it's time to spice its formula up.

This dino-themed installment of the LEGO series has an undeniable charm, but it's not the best LEGO game ever made. The gameplay is basically the same as the previous titles, with less fights and more puzzles. There are a few new elements, but nothing really noteworthy. Final warning: if you were expecting the original voices of the Italian movies (like in the English version), you're up for a huge disappointment. The Italian voiceover is plain awful.

Lego Jurassic World is a pleasant surprise for fans of the films as well as the Lego games, and one of the best additions to your Lego game collection.

Despite the bugs and the annoyingly repetitive soundtrack, LEGO Jurassic World is a whole lot of fun.

It is fast becoming the case that the formula is becoming a little stale, and although the games are nice and inoffensive enough, it’s becoming harder and harder to shake the feeling that you’re just playing the same game, again.

So overall you have a LEGO game that for the most part sticks to the formula, feels like it is really stretching its source material to fit the mold, and introduces a new gimmick that's fun, but not as much fun as it could have been.

Playing co-op is always the best option but even playing alone will put a smile on your face. It's just unfortunate that the game has more problems than you'd typically find in a LEGO adventure, and even more unfortunate that it's biggest drawback is also it's biggest benefit: Playing as a dinosaur is by far the coolest element of the game, but it's also the one part of the game that is most liable to break.

So another tremendously well-made blockbuster from the LEGO factory, once again proving that there is no room for second-rate movie tie-ins any more and that no-one understands how to get the most out of classic movie franchises like Traveller’s Tales. But like the dinosaurs, it’s only so much time before they’ll have to evolve.

Not the smoothest brick-fest ever built, but our complaints aren't game-breaking ones. After careful consideration, TT, we've decided to endorse your park. [September 2015, p76]

It feels like the franchise does need a rethink. [Issue#259, p.70]

There's lots of enjoyment to be had here, but it's also cruel reminder that the LEGO franchise needs something new to break out of its now conveyer-belt approach.

It's a shame that LEGO Jurassic World is the only game that accompanies the new Jurassic Park movie, thankfully its contents present all that we know from the franchise, even if this is shown with blocks.

Glitchy, but still maintains the playable charm we have come to expect from LEGO games.

Fans of the LEGO games should basically know what to expect, and Jurassic Park fans should be more than happy with the story, cutscenes, characters, and references. It captured all of my favorite Jurassic Park moments and added its own unique sense of humor into the mix, and that's essentially all I really wanted.

It doesn't change the core mechanics of the LEGO videogames, but it can still be tons of fun.

The comedic lengths the game goes to make the series's trademark wanton cruelty palatable is impressive.

LEGO Jurassic World follows the tried and tested formula but is missing that little bit of magic, despite John Williams’ amazing score being part of the expereince.

Yup, it’s still a Lego game. But it’s one of the best in recent memory, full of silly laughs, gentle puzzles and delightful playable lizards.

The name of the game pretty much spells out exactly what you can expect: LEGO Jurassic World. It is the traditional, Travelers’ Tale LEGO experience that is becoming all too familiar, set in a Jurassic Park setting. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It lacks the polish and scope of some of the previous LEGO games. But if you’re a fellow dinosaur nut and eager to indulge in some relaxed puzzle solving, collectible hunting or need to add something new to your Jurassic Park collection, then I’ll gladly recommend LEGO Jurassic World.

Lego Jurassic Park is a nice, pleasant nostalgia trip, but it won't be long before you're asking to leave.

What Lego Jurassic doesn’t do is innovate on the previous Lego games a great deal – nor does it really need to. This is aimed squarely at children – or more specifically at parents who want to share some nostalgia with their kids while making use of the perfect drop-in/drop-out co-operative option.

As charming and accessible as any Lego game but Jurassic Park doesn’t suit the Lego formula terribly well and the ability to play as dinosaurs is underused.

As much as parts of LEGO Jurassic World are very enjoyable and provide some gentle laughs, it's hard not to feel, once again, that LEGO games are in need of a shake up.

A dull, occasionally frustrating experience with a lot of cute nods to the series for hardcore fans. That’s as good as it gets. From the puzzles to the combat to the exploration, everything feels less ambitious and entertaining than other recent Lego titles. The basic mechanics still work, but the gameplay feels like a leap back in time.

Unfortunately, this game does have its fair share of issues, particularly in the control department.

Good enough, but incredibly safe, and definitely a factory line production that inspires little other than blandly trundling through the game, chuckling a bit at some jokes and ignoring most of them.

Lego Jurassic World has clearly been rushed through to release alongside the new movie, and as such is riddled with bugs and glitches -more so than any other licensed Lego game. There are plenty of grin-inducing moments for fans of these incredible movies though and as such Lego Jurassic World is still worth a look if you love the films enough to forgive the defects in its DNA.

You’ll find nothing ground breaking in LEGO Jurassic World, but it is so rushed that I can only recommend looking at one of the many other LEGO games out there unless you're a massive fan of Jurassic Park.