LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is the third LEGO game based on DC Comics characters. While it prominently features Batman and his supporting cast, as indicated by the subtitle it moves beyond Gotham City into all corners of the DC universe, featuring the Justice League, the Legion of Doom and several Lantern Corps, with all sorts of heroes and villains making an appearance, and the story moving from Earth to outer space and several other planets. The story picks up from the teaser at the end of the previous game, with Brainiac approaching Earth. He captures several Lanterns to gain possession of their power rings, which he plans to use to shrink the Earth and add it to his collection. Meanwhile, the Legion of Doom, led by Lex Luthor and the Joker, plan to capture the Justice League's Watchtower space station. However, faced with this new threat against the entire planet, both heroes and villains must team up to defeat Brainiac.
The game follows a familiar template: players control several characters, using their special abilities to fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and solve environment-based puzzles. Abilities include projectile weapons, explosives, grappling hooks, x-ray vision, beams (laser, sonic, ice), mind control, smashing walls, illuminating dark areas, and more. Non-superpowered characters like Batman, Robin, or Lex Luthor can gain new abilities by acquiring various suits, which can be switched between on the fly. Some variation comes in the form of Resogun-style shoot'em'up sequences and computer hacking scenes that take place in a Tron-style world. Playing through the game's story mode unlocks more than a dozen characters. The game includes over 130 characters, which can be unlocked by finding their tokens in levels or completing quests given out from hub areas. Besides DC characters, there are also celebrity characters, voiced by their real-life counterparts, including Adam West as 60's TV Batman, Kevin Smith, and Conan O'Brian.
The game includes various collectibles that usually require playing through story levels in Free Mode using unlocked characters with abilities not available earlier.
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