
You'll have to wait until the end of On Stranger Tides, however, to get a siren (whose voice can break glass) and beyond that before you get Blackbeard's sword and the ability to open yet more areas and content.LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game

The usual Lego rules apply, such as silver objects needing an explosive weapon to get through them. Complete all of these and you'll still only be around 50% of the way through the game.Īs with previous Lego titles, the main appeal is to the "completist" – those willing to go back and explore the huge amount of unlockable content in order to complete all the side challenges and find every collectible. That said, they're generally colourful and witty, and aren't massively essential in order to still enjoy the puzzle-solving/scenery destroying pleasures of the game itself.Ĭomplete one level of the first game – Curse of the Black Pearl – and you'll unlock the other three titles: Dead Man's Chest, At World's End and the new one, On Stranger Tides. It's just that you won't necessarily understand (or remember) the plot details of any of the films from the cut scenes here. is a more-encouraging-than-usual take on the film tie-in. Regardless, launched to coincide with the release of the fourth movie, Lego Pirates. But show me a person who watched the third Pirates movie more than once and I'll show you someone with way too much time on their hands. There are also, one assumes, people who can remember every twist in the increasingly drawn–out Pirates of the Caribbean series, all four of which appear here.


There are, no doubt, people who remember every nuance of everything George Lucas has ever written. There is arguably one small flaw, which is: a) perhaps a very personal one and b) probably the same reason that Clone Wars underwhelmed – a lack of familiarity with the source material. A fter the slight disappointment of Lego Star Wars III: Clone Wars, the brick people (and Traveller's Tales) bounce back in some style.
