This really should've just been called LEGO Justice League as it does have quite a few members in it, but the focus is clearly Superman and Batman with a story similar to the Animated Superman episode where he works with Batman against Lex Luthor and the Joker.

The game surprised me since after the first level it lets you walk around Gotham as a big open world! Not only that, but because of this that means there are many criminals hidden that you have to defeat before aquiring them as spare characters and the missions, like the last game, are replayable to get all the secrets that you either missed because you didn't see them or missed because you didn't have the powers needed.

There are a lot of villains in this one, some obscure ones too like Hush too. The story is very fun, but also quite epic too which is what I've grown to learn from these Lego games and I have a hell of a lot of fun with them too.

If you liked the pervious game, you'll love this one and if you want to buy this one and havn't played the first you're likly to enjoy it as there is no continuation with the story of either games, but it has been improved immensly since the last game.

The Good:
* Great, campy, 70's characters, story and visuals
* Lots to do and collect
* Storymode: good Lego fun around 8 hours
* Replay value with Freeplay clocking in around 16 hours

The Bad:
* Messy hub map interface is confusing for a long time
* Flying (esp with co-op keyboard) is almost impossible to control
* Crashes every few hours
* Small roster of characters with samey powers
* Batarangs have very limited range and weapons fire slowly
* Short 8 hour campaign is all over too soon
* Freeroam has only 5 kinds of task repeated dozens of times
* Co-op mared by bad design (paralysed on: change character, pick vehicle, open map, fight character, start mission, gold brick) really slow save every time you complete a task while baddies beat you up.

Background: Just finished Lego LOTR & Marvel. Like Batman comic books. Indifferent to the 80's-90's movies. Disliked Lego Batman 1.

Impressions: TT's continual changing of the hub world interface really bugs me. From game to game I have no idea how to navigate and spend ages trying to find a story mission.

After playing Lego LOTR and Marvel this feels like a huge let down. Which is unfair since this is a smaller and older game but it makes you appreciate how much better the games got after this.

Recommended for: TT Lego fans and those who like Batman really.

Conclusion: 6/10. You can bump this score up 1 if your not a Gloomy Gus like me.


**SPOILERS AND HINTS**
I wrote this to help newbies understand how to play the game better and not flail around like I did. Follow these tips in the order shown and you'll get more out and less frustration.

The spoilers are very mild (are they even spoilers?) but I'm aware not everyone wants hand holding and they are around mechanics of play, there's nothing about the story or exactly how anything is done.

How to Play:
1. Complete story mode first
* You need to unlock characters in the final mission, don't even start on freeroam or freeplay till you complete

2. Find Characters with unique talents
* In freeroam (use batcomputer, pick a white dot and select to be teleported into town) fly around the sky and head for red skylight beams and land
* Use the computer terminal to find a baddie, note where they are standing as they taunt you (ground, top of building, etc)
* Use the ! MARKER tool to drop a marker on the baddies face in the MAP. Head for the red ! in your batcompass, locate the bad guy and walk up to them
* Most baddies just take a few punches while other require you to do some cleanup or damage to the local environment before take down
* Only buy the ones you want as money can be short at first: Lex, Ivy, Aquaman, Joker & Riddler are the only ones you really need

3. Red Helper Bricks
* To help even more get some red bricks for the now familiar helpers (esp. indicate gold bricks, attract studs, indicate mini-kit parts, stud multipliers)
* Use the batcomputer or the terminals around town (blue skylights easily found with a flying character) and press SCAN on the MAP to find Red dots
* As before use the marker system to mark the red dot, go to it and complete a task to reveal the brick for purchase

4. Freeplay re-runs of the story missions
Now you can better complete freeplay re-runs of the story missions with all the tools you need.
* Use the Batcomputer and select the numbered disks to play the story missions
* Ideally collect all the minikits, rescue the guy in peril and get 100% on the stud collector for extra gold bricks

5. Get Cash for freeroam vehicles, characters and red bricks
* To get cash I found the stud multipliers, turned on, switch to Green Lantern, build and smash the green piles around the streets in the middle map for purple and blue studs

6. How to use the Map system.
While Scanning you also reveal dots that lead you to the following...
* Citizens in Peril: Save the poor soles from their situation for a gold bricks
* Collapsed arches: rebuild, if you have enough gold bricks, to reveal a bonus character to buy
* Beat up baddies: beat enough and you can add them to your roster
* Stud trails: leading to gold bricks which require certain outfits and characters
* Gold items: Melt with heat vision to reveal gold bricks
* Riddler/Joker boxes: Only they can open these and usually have a red brick in them
* Flash Builds: Only Flash can build these structures
* Vehicles: Shown on the map and take serious cash to buy
* Environmental tasks: shooting stuff, remote-control, riding and pulling switches
* Water: Aquaman can swim underwater
In Missions...
* Black bricks: Only Lex's ray can shatter them
* Ivy flowers: Able to tunnel through the ground

Well...its interesting. Though there are no steam achievements. There is also no dlc. Howver this didnt stop a bunch of intrepid players from not only making the DLC work for this game....but also making it so we can see some hidden dropped characters as well. SOoooo.....consoles can get 10 extra characters....PC can get 20.

This game starts very linear....unlike MArvel heros....the game pushes youthrough its story....wont let you choose other characters for a long while....and you cant switch until much later in the game.

If you like Batman and DC and Lego games...you will like this one.

LEGO Batman 2 is awesome.

Let me break it down; Lex Luthor loses Man of the Year to Bruce Wayne, madness ensues when the Joker breaks the ceremony, cue Bruce Wayne leaving and reappearing as Batman. He saves the day. But, an angry Lex has a new weapon used to let the villains of Gotham loose from Arkham Asylum, the Joker wreaking the most havok. Batman manages to re-capture most of the villains, but the Joker is still on the loose. The rest of the game is an epic story of cat vs. mouse searching and fighting in classic LEGO fashion. Destroying stuff and collecting studs. Unlocking characters and wreaking havok.

What's noteworthy about LEGO Batman 2 is the full voice cast, the open world Gotham, which, while not huge, is respectably big if you're running around as Batman instead of flying across the map as Superman. The graphics are impressive, it seems TT keeps outdoing themselves with the lighting and textures on a number of the models. Gameplay is classic LEGO gameplay. Jump, punch, switch character, special move and camera/movement.

I have to say, especially with how the game ends, I'm very excited for LEGO Batman 3, which will be set in space featuring a different villain, Green Lantern's foe Brainiac.

9.3/10

Justice League open world Lego game, with the same story line as the animated movie. A lot better than the first DC Lego movie, who was like me and thought it was kinda boring.

Thus far the best Lego game I have played.

It's a great game; the voice acting and the story are fantastic. However, if you've played other new Lego games(such as Lego Marvel) you will be disappointed by several things. The flight controls are wonky, the map is hard to use, and no matter who you unlock you WILL have to use Batman&Robin's suits now and again. It's still a great game though. Also, you get Superman very early and he's one of the strongest characters in any Lego game. Then you just start breezing through.

As far as LEGO games go, this game is definitely... well, a LEGO game.

What I mean by this is that if you have ever played a LEGO game in your life then you already know everything there is to know mechanically about this game. In my experience, LEGO games are not so much about ground breaking, innovative gameplay; but rather, immensely enjoyable fun for the whole family that comes in all kinds of assorted flavors. Personally, I find the Star Wars flavor to be the best out of all of them, but for the same reason that a die-hard LOTR fan would tell you that the Lord of the Rings LEGO Games are the best.

Overall, if you haven't ever played a LEGO game, then don't just buy the "latest and greatest". Buy a flavor you love, and I promise you won't be disappointed :)

An open world lego game, similar to the Marvel Superheroes Lego game. Lots of characters, vehicles, levels to play (and re-play), and an open world to fool around in. I don't know what it would be like to play this with an adult (probably less frustrating) but my 6 year old absolutely loves the game, and it gets a huge recommendation from me for anyone with kids. The entire series does, really.

Hehehhehehe im batman and I ran over a citizen

LEGO® Batman 2 DC Super Heroes™ is just that. Its basically a who's who of villians & heroes from the DC universe. pretty much what Lego did for Marvel they did for DC. the game play is the same build items to help you solve puzzles or problems yo may encounter. But with every Lego game that never gets old. the story this time is basically Batman and Superman stopping both Lex Luthor and The Joker. throw in the rest of the Justice league and the rest of the Legion of doom and you are in for a fun time. controls are the same, just with the keyboard. so if thats not for u use a controller. but if all you have is a keboard i suggest using the number pad for action keys like tag jumps attack and action. i use them and works great. as i said in my last few lego reviews if you like the games and their silly humor i recommend it. if not then pass it up. 10/10

Great Game Completed 100% in less then 80 hours. It is fun. 3,5 stars.

My boys love this game. And why wouldn't they? It's Batman and Legos. Gets a little frustrating when I have to bale them out of a level that they are stuck on. You basically have to rewalk the whole level to see what they missed. But the complaints are mainly due to my kids being young and lazy when it comes to playing this game.

Its a good game if you love comics and Legos. If you love one or the other then maybe think hard before buying.

One of my favorite LEGO games out, being a huge Marvel fan this is hard for me to say. You get to own it up as the epic man we all love, Batman! Also, when you get half way, you will be able to play as the stuck up Superman! Later on, you will be able to play more and more. At the end, I was playing as The Flash! Great buy!

It’s better than the first one. But it really needs Steam Achievement’s.

It's a good game,but doesn't support auto cloud save and steam achievements . A little pity...

So, I do recommend this game, because it's wicked fun, especially with two players, but it does have some problems.

I got this game because I'm really into Batman, and I wanted to try to get my 7 year old daughter into it too. I was playing Batman: Arkham City with her, but my wife found out about it, and she was not happy. So, we agreed that this way more kid-friendly game was probably a good compromise. And it is pretty kid-friendly as far as content goes. The characters are fun, and building LEGO stuff in-game to make vehicles and such is a blast. As far as my goal of getting my daughter into Batman, it worked like a charm, and now we're watching the movies and TV shows, and as soon as she can read I will start getting her some of the old comics. So there's that.

Now the problems: controls and bugs. The controls are pretty decent in single-player mode, but all hell breaks loose in multiplayer mode. Inside a level, if you and your partner are together in the same location, and one of you moves even a tiny bit while the other is doing something where you have to stay in one spot (i.e. aiming a batarang or Superman's heat vision, spraying something with water, etc.) the aim gets totally thrown off. If your partner is say, just hypothetically, a willful 7-year-old girl who will not listen to repeated cries of "STOP MOVING, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!", it becomes hard to complete a task sometimes. Also, if you and your partner split up, the screen splits to give each player a view of where they're going, but it doesn't split just horizontally or vertically, it splits based on where you've moved. So, if your partner has moved above you, it splits somewhat horizontally. However if they move off at an angle, the screen splits perpendicular to that angle, so it's not always nice and square and you end up not being able to see much. Controls with the vehicles are mostly good, except for the flying vehicles for some reason. It seems like they're unable to move in the vertical axis and the horizontal at the same time. When completing flying challenges, it was mostly moving forward, stopping, then gaining or losing altitude, then stopping, then moving forward again, rather than a more fluid motion. If the flying vehicles controlled more like the flying characters it would be better.

Also, maybe this game was rushed, or maybe it's just me, but there seem to be a surprising amount of bugs and stuff in the game. Sometimes it crashed if another program required attention or if a notification popped up from Windows, and sometimes it crashed for no reason at all. Also, there were many places in the game where a character could get stuck and there'd be no choice but to have the other character go somewhere to unstick them. For example, you can get stuck in a few of the gargoyles on the rooftops of Gotham City, and this would require the other player to stop what they were doing and go enter the subway system, so that both characters would be reset to whereever you exited the subway. It's little, but when you're playing with a kid, and you can't drop what you're doing to go unstick them for the fourth time, it can become an issue.

Oh, and my wife wants me to note that since the male characters tend to have more useful powers than the female characters in this game, that the unlockable Batgirl character should've been allowed to use both Batman's and Robin's power suits. I tend to agree.

All this aside, the game is really fun, with a ton of characters to unlock, vehicles to unlock, decent level diversity, and a pretty fun overworld to explore. The inclusion of most of the 1989 Batman film soundtrack and the main theme of the 1978 Superman film is awesome. The game ran smoothly on old hardware (3 year old video card in a 7 year old computer) and Xbox controller integration is very nice. I'm definitely looking forward to further LEGO games, especially LEGO Marvel Superheroes.

8/10, would play again.

In the original title, you were able to simulate building one singular Lego Batman. In this title, they've really upped the stakes and now you can build not one, but TWO Lego Batmen.

It's the Justice League + an open-world Gotham full of shenanigans + writing that's going to mock its source material at any chance it can get + one of the strongest Lego games I can think of. If your friends will visit your place, it has 2P local co-op too. When the worst thing I can level against a game is "it's a bit similar to the last one, but not in a bland way", I would say that gets my seal of approval, yeah. Huge tip: rush through the story mode ASAP before you go back for collectables/unlocks, the simple ability to swap characters/turn on some of the cheats really makes that more pleasant.

My only complaint: game does not feature Green Arrow, but Black Canary got in somehow. Ah well, that'll probably come up in the sequel it teases at the end. (Spoilers: it teases a sequel at the end which will probably be crazier than this.)

I 'finished' the main story of this game (with help from GameFAQs and some Youtube.

I'll admit, I feel 'stupid' playing the Lego games as I quite often don't 'get' what I'm supposed to do to complete each area, and I wish the saves were at any time and not so rare, as sometimes I've lost progress because I needed to quit for the day and couldn't save some progress.

Still, the game is fun, its enjoyable, and worth buying.

I hope there's a sequel, and it seems to hint so at the end of the game. I won't spoil the ending, but its worth watching.

The voices are great. The levels fun. Its a keeper.

Similar to LEGO® CITY Undercover for the Wii U and 3DS, and the upcomming LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes later this year, the game features a large open world with hours of replay value. While the storyline may take less than 10 hours, wanting to 100% complete this game can take over 30 hours even with guides. You can choose between 50 various DC Universe characters to play from, including the regular Batman heroes/villians and even the Justice League. You start with a few which you unlock through the storyline and you'll have to unlock the others through challenges (fighting those characters, obtaining a certain % of Gold Bricks). Every unlockable character (which aren't obtained through the storyline) can be purchased with "studs", the currency in-game which you obtain through breaking objects and by touching these bricks in the world. A lot of LEGO® objects are breakable in this game!

You'll always play two characters at once, you'll be able to switch through these 2 while playing, or swap one partner or yourself with another character (the last one only applies in "Free Play"). Be warned though: every character has a set default abilities, while Robin and Batman are unique, characters like Superman and General Zod share the same movepool (basically a reskin/clone). This occurs often and some characters like Scarecrow doesn't even have any special abilities (while you'll expect the usual fear gas as a move). Batman and Robin share their own set of various suits you'll have to reach through a "Suit converting platform", and to make the game easier some unlockable characters partially have similar moves of those suits. This may speed up certain points in the game whereas you'll require such suit which is located 5 minutes from that building you want to climb to get a Gold Brick.

Completing this game 100% includes unlocking all 50 characters, a large amount of unique vehicles, 250 Gold Bricks, 20 Red Bricks, obtaining 150 Mini-kits and save a lot of citizens. All of these pieces are scatterd through the large open world and every piece requires a puzzle to earn these. Every puzzle might require certain abilities, such as magnetic powers, lasers, freezing, superstrength, explosions, electricity, glass shattering, brick-breaking, brick-building and the usual thinking. Some Gold Bricks are unlocked through races with vehicles. Red Bricks are cheats in-game, such as godmode and multiple studrate (up to a whopping 3840x rate!).

The game offers fast travel through various locations on the world map (unlocked fast travels are marked by large blue beacons, seeable in the air), but it'll require you to reach that point first and boot the local teleport computer (unbooted teleports are marked by large red beacons).

Various vehicles are present in the game with their own unique behaviour. You'll have to unlock these on your own by completing challenges or purchasing them with "studs". A lot of these vehicles are actually references to LEGO® Batman/CITY sets, like the well-known Bane's Mole Machine from set 6860 - The Batcave. Certain vehicles have specialized weapons (like explosions or just regular bullets), some are purely for fast movement.

The storyline of the game offers about 15 chapters, and first-time playing may take up about 10 hours of gameplay. Every chapter is unique on it's own and has unique puzzles for certain Mini-kits, which are required to unlock mini vehicles. Completing them for the first time will never give you a 100% score for that level; you'll have to replay them on "Free Play" mode with various unlockable characters to complete certain puzzles. There's also one hidden chapter, but you'll have to find that one out yourself.

If you happen to own two controllers or one keyboard and one controller for your PC, you can play this game with a friend. Your friend will play your partner in the game and you'll be able to play every chapter or roam together in the large open world from LEGO® Batman 2.

If you do have any questions about this game, please do ask!