Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
| Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins | |||
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| Studio | TT fusion | ||
| Publisher | Nintendo | ||
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 April 21, 2013 April 26, 2013 April 27, 2013  |
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| platform | Nintendo 3DS | ||
| genre | Action adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| medium | Download , game card | ||
| language | including German and English | ||
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Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins ( own notation : LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins ) is an open-world - video game of action-adventure - genre and prequel of Lego City Undercover . It was developed by TT Fusion and released by Nintendo exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS on April 21, 2013 in North America, on April 26, 2013 in Europe and on April 27, 2013 in Australia.
Action and gameplay
In Lego City: Undercover: The Chase Begins is about a cop named Chase McCain who arrested the robber Rex Fury, the most wanted person Lego City's, and wants to put behind bars. He has to unlock new costumes in various missions in order to gradually advance in the case of Rex Fury. Unlike its predecessor, Lego City: Undercover, there is no coherent overworld and each area has to be loaded individually when entering. The game is playfully based on its predecessor, but tells the story that takes place two years before Lego City: Undercover.
reception
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The reviews of Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins have for the most part been mixed. On the rating website Metacritic , the game has a Metascore of 62 out of 100 possible points based on 44 ratings. Most of the trade magazines criticized the relatively long loading times of up to a minute when changing from one area to another. The German-language video game magazine GamePro praised the many varied missions. GamePro estimates the game time to be around 15 hours on their data sheet. In the GamePro test, there is talk of ten hours for the campaign and another ten hours for 100 percent completion.
development
The game was first announced during Nintendo's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 (at that time under the working title Lego City Stories ). On January 17, 2013, it was announced that the game would be called Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins and would be a prequel to Lego City: Undercover .
Sales figures
On September 12, 2013, Nintendo announced that Lego City: Undercover had sold 264,000 copies in North America.
Web links
- Official website of the game (English)
- Official German entry at nintendo.de
- Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins on Metacritic
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins - All information, release, PC system requirements. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ LEGO City Undercover - The Chase Begins: Release is April 26th. March 18, 2013, accessed August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins - All articles about the game. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Use your investigative skills and fight crime in LEGO City Undercover! Retrieved on August 24, 2019 (German).
- ↑ a b c d e f Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins put to the test - The pocket cop. April 18, 2013, accessed August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Planet3DS.de - Test: LEGO City: Undercover - The Chase Begins Review. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Detje: Test Lego City Undercover - Chase - Annoying loading times and 3DS rating. In: Spieletipps.de . May 16, 2013, accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ^ Mathias Oertel: Test: Lego City Undercover. In: 4Players . April 25, 2013. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Patrick Büssecker: Lego City Undercover for the 3DS in the test: It doesn't quite get to the Wii U version, but it was still a success. In: GameZone. May 21, 2013, accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Pikmin 3 US sales reach 115,000 units. In: GameSpot. Retrieved August 24, 2019 (American English).