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LEGO City Undercover is a CityVideo Game originally released exclusively for the Nintendo Wii U on March 18, 2013 in the US and March 28, 2013 in Europe. On November 22, 2016, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the game will be released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 4, 2017 and April 7, 2017 for Europe [2].
This game was first mentioned in The Brick 2009, where it was said, "LEGO City Stories will have a more loose central story that will encourage the player to explore a wider variety of side stories and challenges".
The game was then advertised at the back of LEGOset instructions from 2011City sets. The advertisement took up two pages. On the first, it showed a code, from which arrows fan out, pointing at a DS with the game, a computer monitor with the LEGO website, and a computer monitor with the comic builder on the site. The second page advertised the game itself, utilizing an in-game snapshot. The game was officially confirmed to be in production on June 7th, 2011, at E3 2011 and will be available for Wii U on March 18th, 2013 and in Europe on March 28th 2013 [3] Additionally, a prequel, LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins, was released for Nintendo 3DS on April 21st, 2013 in North America and April 26th, 2013 in Europe. The game itself takes place during 2012-2013.
Story
Chase McCain returns to LEGO City after accidentally revealing Natalia Kowalski’s identity live on national TV after Natalia provided evidence that helped arrest Rex Fury. Chase was brought back by ship by Mayor Gleeson to investigate a crime wave she believes Rex Fury is behind, as he is a criminal mastermind and had escaped from Albatross prison. Chase is brought to the police station, where he meets Frank Honey and an apparent old foe, Marion Dunby, who had become the chief. After a briefing, Chase takes care of a bank robbery carried out by the clown robbers. After the mission, Chase bumps into Natalia Kowalski, who reveals that she had to change her identity to hide from Rex Fury and threatens to leave him for her personal safety. Later, Chase takes on a gang of robbers on the TV tower, and finds out from the leader that they were working from Rex Fury. Chase decides to go to Albatross Prison to find evidence of Rex, where he meets Blue Whittaker, who tells him about Rex. After investigating his cell, Chase discovers that Rex used a hammer to dig his way out of prison, leading to an assignment in the Bluebell mine to find more evidence, but instead finds Rex, who knocks him out and escapes. Seeking for guidance to defend against Rex, Chase goes to Barry Smith, who teaches him Kung-Fu by listening to a disc. Chase decides to work undercover with Rex's affiliates, starting with Chan Chuang, a person who owns a chop shop, and works for him by stealing cars for him. He then goes on to work for Vinnie Pappalardo, who assigns him to steal the Bell Pepper Emerald. Dunby then tells chase to get evidence against Chan Chuang by photographing his gang members Doing illegal actions. Chan calls Chase sortly after and tells him to steal a moon buggy since all his most trusted employees had been arrested. Then, Chase is called by chief Dunby to rescue Forrest Blackwell, who has been kidnapped by an unknown criminal gang. Vinnie Pappalardo then assigns Chase a task to steal a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton for Rex Fury. After that, Chase decides to head towards the hotel where he heard that Rex Fury and Vinnie were meeting, and learns that Vinnie and Rex had a falling out. He teams up with Vinnie to go into Blackwell tower to find a hidden vault of gold, where Moe explains to him about an incident where Forrest planned to build an apartment with a mall in the Bluebell Park, but was banned due to the park housing a rare squirrel, infuriating Forrest. When Chase gets to the Tower, when he opens the vault, he is ambushed by Sentinels, who serve as guards. He outruns them, but when he goes to Pappalardo's Ice Cream Parlor in meet up with Vinnie, he rescues him from Rex's goons, who had frozen him in a freezer in retaliation of Vinnie betraying him. He next goes to the bowels of Rex's hidden base to find Henrik Kowalski, Natalia's father, there he finds that Forrest Blackwell himself is behind the crime wave. Henrik reveals to him a plan made by Blackwell to make an empire on the moon, where Henrik was forced to help make a protective shield for the empire. Upon discovering that Blackwell Tower is actually the rocket that Forrest was planning on using to get to the moon, he sets up force-fields around the tower to prevent the rocket's ignition from incinerating the city. Next, using another rocket, he goes to the moon empire and reroutes Forrest's rocket back to Earth, where Forrest then refuses to go as states that he decided to build his "utopia" (apartment/mall) on the moon instead, still furious about the incident of his cancelled construction project on Bluebell park. After fighting Rex Fury's T. Rex robot, Forrest destroys the tower, and leaves Rex and Chase to fight while he escapes in an escape pod. Chase then defeats Rex, and saves Natalia's spacecraft from crashing into LEGO City. Chase is congratulated for saving the city and Rex is ultimately put back in jail.
Additional voices by Stuart Allardes, Louise Andres, Stephen Austin, Becky Ballantine, Duncan Gillies, Adam Gott, Mark Healy, Alexandra Jaeschke, Glenn Kneale, David May, Greg McCarthy, Amy Parry, Graham Price, Jenny Rathbone, Ash Read, Meg Rouncefield, and Jon Spencer.
A Star can be seen as a balloon at a star-shaped balloon fair.
Chase McCain uses a green warp pipe at one point.
To unlock the Fisherman, you need to fish at Crescent Park Wharf, when you fish up the fish it is a Cheep Cheep.
To unlock Chan Chuang, you need to build a Bob-omb and throw it at a cage at the Pagoda.
The first phase of the Rex Fury boss is defeated in a similar fashion of Bowser from Super Mario 64.
In an area in downtown, there are cannons that fire Bullet Bills.
Above an ivy-covered tunnel, a Wiggler is wandering back and forth.
There are five buildable Super Stars from the Mario series, which unlock the Pop Star.
There are five question mark blocks from the Mario series, which when all are hit, they unlock the Super Wrestler.
There is a Red Brick that, once activated, gives the player Mario's Hat.
There is another Warp Pipe behind the dojo that can be watered, and reveals a Venus Fire Trap (Fire Breathing Piranha Plant). The fire from the Venus Fire Trap can be used to burn a large spider web blocking the character token, Barry Smith (Trouserless).
In the Museum level, a giant Dry Bones can be built.
On one of the towers on the castle has a flag pole.
In addition to Mario, there are many other kinds of references to games, TV shows, and movies in LEGO City Undercover, including Shawshank Redemption, CSI: Miami, Miami Vices.
In the fight scene with Barry, when Chase McCain is hit with an uppercut, red letters that say K.O. appear and a classic Legend of Zelda fanfare is heard.
Many famous cops and detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Watson were seen in the Police Station's Briefing Room.
Horace Cone may be a parody of Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami.
The Wii U version of this game is one of the few LEGO video games not to include a multiplayer function and is published by Nintendo.
People that worked on the game like Luke Cashmore and Ross Wilding have minifigures you can unlock.
The poster with Chase McCain and Rex Fury may be referring to the special assignment when Chase goes to the mine and is ambushed by Rex's goons and dynamite.
Some of the districts in this game were named and designed after the real-life places and Historical Landmarks in the United States.
In the game's opening cutscene, the wilhelm scream can be heard when someone falls of a ferry.
In the final mission where Chase must skydive into the atmosphere to save Natalia, if you pay close attention to the planet below, Newfoundland can be made out and areas of extreme northern Canada that slowly change position as the angle changes, which would put LEGO City somewhere on the coastline in Canada, or in the United States on the Great Lakes.
Due to the tropical or overall warmer climate that LEGO City appears to be in with palm trees common throughout the area, it is unlikely that the city is located this far north. However, if this is the case, it is entirely possible that LEGO City is located on the Great Lakes as seafaring ships can and have sailed into the various lakes.
In Festival Square, "Stars and Stripes Forever" can be heard, which implies that LEGO City is an American city.
In King's Court, many fictional flags are seen on what is presumably an embassy. It is possible that this world's nations are different than those in the real world, but with the same geography. LEGO City could very well also be located in its own country not a part of the U.S. or Canada.
The Mario references were removed from the PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions. They are, however, still present on the Nintendo Switch.
The Epona city bus from the Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo Switch versions of LEGO City Undercover (as well as possibly from the Nintendo 3DS/2DS prequel of LEGO City Undercover, namely LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins) was renamed the Traveller for the PS4, Xbox One and PC ports of the game.
Pat Patterson shares a name with a former real life WWF/WWE (World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment) employee by the name of the same name. However, it is unknown if the LEGO City Undercover Minifigure is actually based upon the real life person or not.
Charlotte Hannon (the Female Firefighter) was renamed Jade Crosby in every other version of LEGO City Undercover (the Nintendo Switch, the Sony PlayStation 4, the Microsoft Xbox One, and the PC versions of the game). However, it is unknown why this name change had occurred in the game.
Two vehicles that are in LEGO City Undercover do, in fact, share their names with real life vehicles. However, the types of vehicles that they share their namesakes with are completely different in real life. The Spirit, which is supposed to be a Performance Vehicle, shares its name with the Dodge Spirit, which is more of a economic sedan, or, if desired, a sleeper tuner, than its sports car variant that is featured in LEGO City Undercover. The Scout, which is another Performance Vehicle, or sports car if you prefer, shares its namesake with the off-road 4x4 truck called the International Harvester Scout, which was supposed to be a rival to the Chevrolet Blazer, the GMC Sierra/High Sierra/High Sierra 1500, the Ford Bronco, the Dodge Ramcharger/Ram Charger, the Plymouth Trailduster, and many Jeep vehicles.
The Lantos in LEGO City Undercover shares a very similar profile, as well as overall appearance, to the Ford GT40, as well as its spiritual successor in the 2002-2008 Ford GT.
The Minnow Boat in LEGO City Undercover is a reference to the fictional boat S.S. Minnow from the Gilligan's Island television show, cartoon series, and made-for-television movies.
For the first time, the fan-favorite LEGO City vehicles and play sets come to life in LEGO City Undercover, exclusively for the new Wii U console. Players assume the identity of Chase McCain, an undercover detective armed with clever disguises. The mission is to put a stop to the fiendish Rex Fury and end his crime wave in LEGO City. As players run, drive and even fly through the city, they’ll use the Wii U controller as a new police gadget.
Features
The Wii U controller is woven seamlessly into the gameplay experience. Players use it to scan for hidden clues and criminals, receive mission updates and place waypoints on an overhead city map that displays their position in real time.
Experience LEGO City like never before. Encounter familiar play sets come to life as players explore the vast city, looking for clues to bring Rex Fury to justice.
Players can go undercover with a variety of disguises including a firefighter, a construction worker and even a robber and use their unique abilities to solve puzzles and access new areas of the city. Once you've earned these disguises you'll definitely want to take a break from the story to enjoy some good old fashioned 'off the clock' fun. As Doyle explains, you can't be a good cop all the time: "There's so much more outside of the story. As a robber you can steal cars and try to outrun the police, take part in vehicle and free-running time trials, be a limousine driver, catch renegade aliens, rescue cats, put out fires... the list goes on and on."
There are more than 100 vehicles for players to collect and use to explore the city, including sports cars, motorcycles and even aircraft.
Players can expect talking minifigures and parody to deliver the game’s storyline.
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