Customer Ratings & Reviews

Most fun I have in a long time with my kids love it!

A lot of people would say Lego games tend to have the same stale game-play. Though this may be true, I may be lucky in that I don't play too many Lego games. I enjoy the game-play; though simple, it seems that there is plenty to explore and many secrets to find in each area that you visit. The game comes with Legos that you assemble, and actually use; re-positioning them on the scanner in order to solve puzzles/win fights, which should be a big difference from other Lego games. The writing and dialog though is probably my favorite part. As a 28 year old, I was not expecting to love the banter between heroes/ villains, witty jokes and comments, etc. If you are a parent who may be forced to play this game with your kids, you might be able to appreciate the writing, while the kids jump around. All in all a worthy buy for me, with the possible exception of all the expansion packs. Though you can play and finish the game with everything in the starter set, there are areas that you won't be able to explore and certain things you can't do without buying additional Lego pack for the game. Keep that in mind when looking at the total cost of the game. I've been trying to buy them when I can get a deal on the sets as best I can.

The concept of taking various licensed LEGO properties and throwing them together is great. Some of the properties, like Portal and Doctor Who, have been treated with evident love by the game designers. The controls are less convoluted than some recent LEGO games (LEGO The Hobbit was especially overloaded). But for all the fun in the idea, there's some big negatives. First of all, there's the cost. The entry cost is $99, and that just lets you play part of the game. If you want to get all of the gold bricks and other extras, you're going to need to by expansion sets—and a lot of them. In previous LEGO games, you unlocked characters by finding character tokens; in Dimensions, you unlock characters by buying real-world packs with real money. Even if you don't want to collect all the characters, but you just want to access all the hidden areas, Dimensions will cost you several hundred dollars. Many things are hidden behind things that require one specific expansion character to unlock. While the various packs aren't priced particularly high compared to non-game LEGO building sets with similar parts counts, the fact that you will need so many sets just to get 100% on the basic storyline means that this game requires a substantial financial investment. The game's story mode is short compared to recent LEGO games, although the "adventure worlds" make up for that somewhat. Likewise, the "level packs" that add new story levels are very brief. As for the controls, TT has traded complex menus on-screen for the toy pad. In many places, you need to use the pad and your characters as controls, moving them to different slots on the pad. That adds a new kind of control complexity. You can't just sit down and play the game; you need to have your toy pad within reach. It needs to be on a non-metallic surface, away from any sources of RF interference. It needs to be within reach of your console; it uses a long USB cord to connect. It needs to be on a relatively level, stable surface. And you'll need to have room nearby for your collection of characters and vehicles so you can swap them in and out. The need to constantly shift attention to the toy pad draws you out of the game, especially when you find you need to remove characters from play to make room to swap others from section to section. Like the Wii U's second-screen, it's an idea that sounds good in the abstract but isn't very fun in reality. (At least in the 1.02 patch, some character abilities can be activated with a button press instead of requiring toy pad movement.) The game also suffers from TT Games' long-standing LEGO game-engine bugs. After a decade of LEGO games, TT still hasn't fixed problems like characters getting stuck in places with no way out, or the game occasionally locking up for no apparent reason. (The Doctor Who level pack has a nasty bug where having the artifact-detector red brick enabled causes the game to crash reliably on multiple platforms, making the level unplayable until you disable the brick.) It also adds some new glitches, such as places where your character can fall through the world and die in the offstage area that you should never see... and then respawn offstage right above where you died, creating an infinite loop of falling, dying (and losing studs), and respawning that you can't escape without quitting the game (and losing progress). For a game that will cost several hundred dollars to complete, there's no excuse for not delivering a stable game without ancient bugs. It can be done—the Wii U-only LEGO City Undercover was virtually free of the typical TT Games LEGO bugs—but it wasn't done for Dimensions. If the game were free of these long-standing bugs—heck, if it were even free of bugs that should have been caught with minimal pre-release playtesting—it would be a four-star game. As it is, only the charm of the writing and the concept keep it from being a two-star game. The various properties in Dimensions receive varying amounts of care. For example, the starter set characters all have fairly extensive dialogue from the original actors. The Doctor Who, Portal, and LEGO Movie characters also receive extensive voice acting from the original actors, including minor characters. The Lord of the Rings characters receive the same over-used movie sound bites as the standalone games, which are sometimes even appropriate to the situation. The Ghostbusters levels available so far seem to rely exclusively on movie sound clips. The Simpsons properties are missing dialogue for many of the characters. If you have a lot of disposable income and a high tolerance for replaying levels due to game-ending glitches, LEGO Dimensions has a lot of fun in the way it lampoons its subjects and mashes them together. If spending $300 to $800 to play a buggy LEGO game doesn't appeal to you, you might want to skip it and just watch gameplay clips on YouTube.

The family is having a blast playing this. Its fun to build while you play. not a lot of instruction on paper but once you start playing the game, it gives instructions on how to build portal and vehicles

I bought this for my grandkids to play on the Wii U when they come to visit. Also bought two of the character sets (Wizard of Oz and Jurassic World). Took a bit to put the portal and figures together but the kids did it all by themselves. They have enjoyed playing the game thus far and have told me that they like it better than Disney Infinity. They said that they would definitely recommend it to others.

We just opened up the game and already it's fun to play without the game because you need to build everything. We have only played the game for about 30 minutes and I cannot wait to dive deeper into the game and purchase more characters to build and to play.

Lego continues to impress with their continuing expansion of toys and now a video game system that integrates building and playing the characters. While many of the movements across the portal are a little redundant, the adventure is fun and it's great to beam in other characters and vehicles to mix it up. Great family game.

One of the best lego games ever created. The only one that may be better for the kids is lego city. This game is a little difficult for kids under 10 to figure out. However if they multi player with an adult its fine.

Gameplay is akin to previous games in the Lego universe. Play as Wyldstyle, Gandalf, Batman, and all the additional characters you can buy, separately throughout the Lego Multiverse whilst saving it from destruction.

I bought this for my 11 year old son. He loves it and so does his big sister. They hooked it all up and play for hours. They agree it is better if you can sit fairly close to the Dimensions console.

This game is so much fun because they actually have to build the portal and characters with the lego pieces. My 7 year old son just absolutely loves the game and so do I . It's a lot of fun to play.

I love the Lego games and this one has all the elements of the others, but is certainly more expansive with the levels and open world play. The one draw back is the ongoing expense. I would HATE to add up what it has cost (and I am not done yet) to completely play this game. Most areas you can complete with a minimal number of characters (there are buying guides and character skill guides if you search), BUT there are some things that are not taken into consideration, such as the fact that there are areas where you need a combination of character skills to acquire a specific goal. For example, you may have purchased a character who can use CHI and a character who can go under water, but until you get into the game and actually play do you figure out you need the one character who can do both

This is a great way to get your gamers to be more interactive. They build the lego to play and then they build more during play. My 2 boys love it.

If you liked the prior LEGO video games, you'll enjoy this one. The only caveat is that if you are a completionist, this game gets expensive.

awesome game my grandkids love it. only downfall is it will be expensive to finish since you need to buy all the characters separate

The title being said there are a lot of little parts to the portal part of the build so it takes a very long time to build it if you have no idea what you are doing. My daughters first try at legos and it took her about two hours with a lot of pulling them apart for mistakes but once its made the game goes through different ways to change the portal to reflect the story. Being only about half way through she hasn't hit a road block yet.

This game is very fun to play and I like that you can be any character in any world

Very cool game and don't forget the extra characters, Lots of SMALL pieces though make sure you have something to keep them in.

My kids have been hooked on Toys to Life since Skylanders first came out. They've stuck with each new game in that series and we also got into Amiibo (since we're a big time Nintendo family). This holiday season we added Lego Dimensions to that mix and it is a winner! Lego kits to build and play with AND the game aspect? This series is a winner.

Lego video games are always fun. There is just something about that noise when the object breaks into little Lego pieces for you to pick up that makes you want to keep doing it! This game combines Lego building with video games and the game expands by adding both characters with new ability as well as characters that open up new worlds.