Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2

Whenever Lego and Marvel join forces, it's always a collaboration on par with the greatest superhero team-ups and comic book crossover events. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is no different, with an epic original adventure starring a robust cast of characters pulled from nearly every corner of Marvel's deep history. Even the most hardcore Marvel fan might be hard pressed to remember some of the more obscure characters, but thankfully, the game's character selection screen includes handy character cards that sum up not only characters' abilities, but their history in the Marvel Universe as well. It's the little things like these, as well as the seemingly trivial details (such as Star-Lord whipping out his Walkman and jamming out to some classic rock), that make the game a true love letter to Marvel comic fans new and old.

Of course, all the characters and trivia in the universe don't add up to much of anything if the game isn't actually fun to play. Thankfully, that's not the case here. There are plenty of puzzles to solve, some basic and some more complex, requiring the use of certain characters' special skills and abilities. There's the toy-on-toy combat and rampant environmental destruction that the games are known for. And, unfortunately, there's still the rare awkward camera angle that can lead to an occasional frustration or two. If you've played any Lego game in recent memory, you'll probably already have an idea of what to expect. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, but rather takes the parts that fans have loved about the Lego games, fine-tunes it all, and crams in more content until the final package is almost bursting at the seams. This isn't just the most polished Lego Marvel game -- it's probably the most polished Lego game to date, period.