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LEGO Batman: The Videogame for PlayStation Portable
LEGO Batman: The Videogame for PlayStation Portable turns Gotham City into a world of bricks, switches and escaped supervillains. You play as Batman and Robin to stop the plans of characters including the Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler. You jump over obstacles, knock enemies apart and build new objects from loose parts. Familiar vehicles and gadgets receive the same LEGO treatment, with short comic scenes between the tasks.
The two heroes wear different suits that determine how you solve a puzzle. Batman can glide or use explosives, for example, while Robin climbs particular surfaces with magnetic boots. You switch between characters yourself to combine their abilities. A smashed object does more than provide studs: its loose bricks can also form a switch, platform or another useful tool. It therefore pays to examine a room before rushing into the next fight.
Alongside the hero chapters, you play a separate sequence from the villains' perspective. Later, you can revisit levels with unlocked characters to find previously unreachable secrets. You collect studs, minikit parts and red bricks. This PSP release is single-player with a computer-controlled partner; it lacks the shared two-player action of several console versions. Here, variety comes from switching characters, solving puzzles and both carrying out crimes and preventing them from the heroes' side.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
LEGO Batman: The Videogame for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of LEGO Batman: The Videogame
Traveller's Tales developed LEGO Batman: The Videogame, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released it in 2008. The game built on the approach that had turned familiar film worlds into humorous action-adventures in LEGO Star Wars. Batman offered a different starting point. Rather than simply following one existing Batman film, its story had a group of familiar villains escape from Arkham Asylum. Their plans gave Batman and Robin different crimes to investigate and stop in Gotham City.
Choosing two sides of the story gave the design a recognisable structure. You first played the heroes stopping a crime and could also discover how the villains carried out their plan. Batman and Robin received special suits to make their different abilities visible, while the villains brought their own traits. The Batcave and Arkham Asylum acted as bases for the two groups. Visual jokes and music from Batman's film world supported the adventure without extensive spoken dialogue.
The PSP release retained the three-dimensional levels, building and changing characters, but removed the console releases' two-player feature. You therefore controlled the duo yourself, with the computer helping in the other role. This also distinguished the portable game from the separately designed Nintendo DS release. The original LEGO Batman later received sequels with a larger role for other DC heroes; this first instalment remains focused on Gotham, its familiar criminals, and Batman and Robin.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Daxter for PlayStation Portable combines three-dimensional platform action with humour and secrets to collect, just like LEGO Batman. Daxter uses his pest-control equipment to fight and hover across gaps; Batman and Robin switch suits and build tools from LEGO bricks. In Daxter, you mainly learn to master one hero's movements. LEGO Batman more often asks you to decide which character or suit solves the problem in a room.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PlayStation Portable also makes gadgets and weapons determine how you progress through a level. Ratchet builds an arsenal and collects armour parts, while LEGO Batman spreads its abilities across characters and special suits. Both connect platforming to battles and collectibles. LEGO Batman also places hero and villain chapters alongside each other; Ratchet mainly follows a continuous science-fiction adventure with his regular robot friend.
Secret Agent Clank for PlayStation Portable also uses a familiar hero with disguised gadgets and different playable roles. Clank sneaks past guards as a spy and investigates why Ratchet is in prison. LEGO Batman more often lets you smash the environment apart and rebuild it. Where Clank alternates spying, rhythmic actions and changing protagonists, Batman's puzzle solving mostly involves combining suits, villain abilities and loose LEGO parts within a level.
MediEvil Resurrection for PlayStation Portable, like LEGO Batman, mixes combat with a comic view of a dark world. Sir Daniel Fortesque faces Zarok's monsters in graveyards and other parts of Gallowmere. Batman and Robin fight recognisable villains in a city made of LEGO. Both games use their unlikely heroes for visual humour, but MediEvil focuses more on weapons and eerie exploration than on building and switching characters.
Prince of Persia: Revelations on PlayStation Portable also combines jumping, fighting and working out how to progress. The Prince must pass traps and move along walls on the Island of Time, with opportunities to correct mistakes through time powers. LEGO Batman mainly uses special suits and buildable objects to overcome obstacles. The similarity lies in action and environmental puzzles; the Prince demands more precise movements and has a much more serious tone.
