Lego Dimensions Midway Arcade Level Pack
By David Chapman,
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Expansion is a retro trip in game history through Lego lens.

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What’s It About?
Since its release, Lego Dimensions has taken players down the yellow brick road in Oz, through the mean streets of Gotham City, on the path to Mordor, and even back through time in both a DeLorean and a police box. Now, with the MIDWAY ARCADE LEVEL PACK, the game is taking players to the quarter-munching birthplace of the video game revolution: the arcade. When one of Lord Vortech's portals opens near a local arcade, some of the retro Midway game characters make their way to the Lego world, turned evil in the process. It's up to the Lego heroes, joined by "Gamer Kid," to literally beat these characters at their own games, competing in classic titles such as Gauntlet, Spy Hunter, Joust, and more.
Is It Any Good?
This expansion pack captures the nostalgic feeling of walking into an arcade with a week's allowance in quarters and spending it all, one coin at a time, on the classics that laid the foundation for today's video game blockbusters. With the Lego Dimensions Midway Arcade Level Pack, kids can experience that feeling themselves, and parents can relive those days long past. As with other level packs available for Lego Dimensions, this pack unlocks new story content to play, with the player trying to seek out and defeat evil versions of old-school game characters. And while it's fun to run around in Lego-ized versions of the dungeons from Gauntlet or to hit the streets in a Lego version of the Spy Hunter Interceptor, the truth is that this pack is surprisingly light on story content. The level pack only offers a couple of hours of new gameplay at most. That's not to say what's there isn't fun but simply that it's over before you know it.
Thankfully, what Midway Arcade lacks in original content, it more than makes up for in replay value. Over the course of the story, players will unlock a handful of arcade cabinets, each with fully playable versions of the classic Midway arcade titles they represent. That only scratches the surface, though. After unlocking the content, players will find pieces to other cabinets throughout the Lego Dimensions worlds, eventually unlocking more than 20 games, including Toobin', Rampage, Robotron 2084, and Paperboy. All of these games use the original programming, too, making them perfect ports of the original arcade versions. It's this retro revisit that will keep gamers, both young and old, coming back to this Lego level pack. And with all the quarters you'll save, it's definitely one addition to your Lego Dimensions collection that's well worth the price.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the evolution of gaming. How have video games changed over the years, and how do the classic titles of yesterday still influence the games of today?
Talk about budgeting and value. With so many accessories and packs available for Lego Dimensions, which features should factor in to purchasing which packs? Should the focus be only on the characters that kids enjoy or on packs that add more overall content?
Game Details
- Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Not available online
- Publisher: Warner Bros. Games
- Release date: March 15, 2016
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Topics: Cars and Trucks, Magic and Fantasy, Superheroes, Adventures, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires, Robots, Space and Aliens
- ESRB rating: E10+ for Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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