- On the XBox 360, load times are very long, and the game can pause long enough when you put a new figure on the base to make you think it's broken. I haven't yet tried installing the game on the hard drive, which may help.
- While you only get the one Play Set in the starter kit (there are two others, Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy), at least you can play it two-player right out of the box, since you have three characters who can play there (and the game design definitely rewards cooperative play, with a number of what amount to raid missions; v1.0 really only dared to have one that was tough enough to cry out for two-player, "Science to the Rescue" in Incredibles). This is a huge improvement, arguably worth the smaller number of Play Sets, since this game is above all a game for parents and their kids to play together
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- There seem to have been a lot of improvements aimed at making it easier to create playable games in the Toy Box. But I haven't done much with them, since I'm usually playing with Jorie with her as host account, and Jorie refuses to allow enemies, run competitive races, or generally play anything resembling a video game in her Toy Box worlds; she sees them as places for relaxation, and occasional bouts of follow-the-leader with her as leader.
That's her prerogative; I like the idea of a game that can be a place for completely non-directed play. Note, though, the game seems to have eliminated any means of leveling up your characters non-directedly. (You used to be able to do it with car stunts, which opened up some peculiar exploits.)
Observations after playing the game quite a bit more:
- Yes, you absolutely must install the game on your hard drive if you are playing the XBox 360 version. It brings the times for level loading and initializing a new character on the Infinity pad down from ridiculous to perfectly acceptable.
- Black Widow's lack of flying ability doesn't remain a serious handicap for long, because she gets access to a "Sky Cycle" pretty quickly; and when she's leveled way up, she's every bit as lethal as Thor and Iron Man. But she's more challenging to play in the early game.
- The Avengers campaign really is quite short, and definitely leaves you wanting more. Unfortunately, it doesn't really get less repetitive as it goes on. It ends with a boss battle that many kids will probably find frustratingly impossible, since it's so much tougher than most of the rest of the game, though it's not that bad by shooter-game final-boss-battle standards.
- Still liking Escape from the Kyln. It's almost a roguelike, though it's simpler, of course (it's
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...Oh, yeah, and there's actually a third way to construct a randomized environment in the Toy Box: you can generate several types of procedurally generated world right at initialization time, including racetracks, collections of pre-landscaped floating ledges connected with slide rails, Minecraftian conglomerations of cubical terrain blocks, and volcanic caves filled with elaborate climbing puzzles.
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- On the XBox 360, load times are very long, and the game can pause long enough when you put a new figure on the base to make you think it's broken. I haven't yet tried installing the game on the hard drive, which may help.
- While you only get the one Play Set in the starter kit (there are two others, Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy), at least you can play it two-player right out of the box, since you have three characters who can play there (and the game design definitely rewards cooperative play, with a number of what amount to raid missions; v1.0 really only dared to have one that was tough enough to cry out for two-player, "Science to the Rescue" in Incredibles). This is a huge improvement, arguably worth the smaller number of Play Sets, since this game is above all a game for parents and their kids to play together ( ... )
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That's her prerogative; I like the idea of a game that can be a place for completely non-directed play. Note, though, the game seems to have eliminated any means of leveling up your characters non-directedly. (You used to be able to do it with car stunts, which opened up some peculiar exploits.)
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- Yes, you absolutely must install the game on your hard drive if you are playing the XBox 360 version. It brings the times for level loading and initializing a new character on the Infinity pad down from ridiculous to perfectly acceptable.
- Black Widow's lack of flying ability doesn't remain a serious handicap for long, because she gets access to a "Sky Cycle" pretty quickly; and when she's leveled way up, she's every bit as lethal as Thor and Iron Man. But she's more challenging to play in the early game.
- The Avengers campaign really is quite short, and definitely leaves you wanting more. Unfortunately, it doesn't really get less repetitive as it goes on. It ends with a boss battle that many kids will probably find frustratingly impossible, since it's so much tougher than most of the rest of the game, though it's not that bad by shooter-game final-boss-battle standards.
- Still liking Escape from the Kyln. It's almost a roguelike, though it's simpler, of course (it's ( ... )
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Ah, apparently you can... it's not obvious.
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