Lego City Undercover - Preview

Dressing up a burglar will help you break into protected buildings and crack safes. Assuming the guise of a construction worker enables you to access sites and use a pneumatic drill. The list of uniforms and abilities goes on... and on... and on.

In previous games this would have required you to switch between key characters in order to make the best possible use of that expensive film licence and it's really refreshing that it's handled in a different way this time around.

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."

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