Unfortunately, digging, building, and wandering about are pretty much all your units do. Fortunately, Rock Raiders' in-game sound effects are good enough to hold anyone's attention the landslides and dynamite explosions emit loud, appropriate rumbles and crashes, and both the raiders and the monsters make their own endearingly humorous noises when they get injured or tired, or when they do pretty much anything other than dig, build, or wander about. However, Chief's briefings and hints are long-winded and dry - so much so that the same youngsters who were probably intended to benefit from his thoroughness may instead find themselves dozing off at the keyboard. And Chief, the Rock Raiders captain, speaks with an amusingly gruff faux British accent as he briefs you on each mission and walks you through the game's seven tutorial missions in their entirety.
In enhanced mode, resting the cursor on any onscreen object or character elicits a loud, clearly spoken voice cue younger children might find the extra identification helpful while playing. It's especially informative in enhanced mode, one of the game's two installment options, the other being standard install. Likewise, Rock Raiders' voice acting is effective in most cases. The Rock Raiders and the dangerous-yet-cute alien monsters they encounter are all cleverly and whimsically animated - both in the actual game and in the excellent cutscenes that precede each mission.Įach of Rock Raiders' 33 missions is accompanied by simple, low-key techno tracks whose bass-heavy beats are in keeping with the game's underground locales but are otherwise forgettable. Yet your LEGO troopers and buildings look exactly as they should characters and buildings all look exactly like their colorful plastic snap-together counterparts. Rock Raiders' character models are also simple, blocky shapes detailed by simple, solid-color textures. For instance, even though each of the game's levels takes place in some sort of rocky cavern, the walls, rocks, and other features are all plainly but cleanly textured. Their only hope of getting home is to mine the planet's caverns for ore and energy crystals to repair their damaged starship.įrom the moment your first crew member is beamed down to the planet to the end of each mission-based level, LEGO Rock Raiders looks very good.
The intrepid Rock Raiders have been sucked into an intergalactic wormhole and forced to land on a faraway planet. LEGO Rock Raiders takes its title from the actual building-block set of the same name and from the stalwart crew of characters you command in the game. Unfortunately, despite its good looks and sounds, LEGO Rock Raiders is often frustrating and at times downright boring to play. Its clean graphics and quirky animation are complemented by clearly delivered voice-overs, good sound effects and background music, all of which are upbeat, if repetitive. LEGO Rock Raiders is a real-time strategy game that sounds good and looks great.
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