The stars align for the first system exclusive, franchise free Lego game. Free of its movie responsibilities Lego City Undercover can simply revel in its Lego-ness. The perfect Lego game for families.

Much like the toy these days, Lego City Undercover is both familiar and unfamiliar. Or, more to the point, it's two games masquerading as one, the first new and the second old. The introduction of a ...

Traveller’s Tales brings its tried and tested Lego game formula to the world of undercover policing, and produces one of its most consistently enjoyable and amusing titles for quite some time. If ...

A policeman pokes his school-bus-yellow head from the side of a Hummer, waving a pair of handcuffs like a cowboy winding up a lariat. A Snidely Whiplash-mustachioed bandit in domino mask and knit hat ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The game was originally released for the Wii U in 2013, and we here at GameSpot gave it an 8/10 for its joyful, open-world gameplay. It follows Chase ...

The team behind Lego City Undercover has learned a lot from actor Steven Seagal. "Steven Seagal has this move where he grabs a guy and sort of flicks his wrist and the guy is on the ground," says ...

I wanted to kill someone — anyone — in Lego City. But whenever I tried to start a fight, people jumped out of the way or magically picked themselves off the ground after I rammed them with my police ...

It’s sad how many open-world/sandbox titles almost exclusively target adults. Kids are probably more inclined to chase down pigeons in Grand Theft Auto IV than I ever will be, but I can’t justify ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With Lego City Undercover, developer Traveller's Tales has distilled the concept of "fun" into its purest essence and poured it liberally over a city ...

LEGO City Undercover faces a burden unlike any previous LEGO game developed by Traveller’s Tales. Not only is this production the first LEGO game by Traveller’s Tales to not feature a major movie or ...

One of the best games currently available on the Wii U right now is LEGO City: Undercover (read our review), so the prospect of a similar title made portable on the Nintendo 3DS sounds like a swell ...

Traveller's Tales' latest proves that Lego games don't need a licence to charm. There have been a few missteps along the way, but in general the last decade of Lego games made by Traveller's Tales ...