LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame

Unplayable unless you turn v-sync on. Has some unusual bindings on keyboard which were clearly an afterthought. Pretty okay game

I was never highly into the Batman franchise, nor do I possess a huge interest in super hero franchises now, but I did pick game this up as a kid, simply because I was a Lego games enthusiast. And revisiting the game all these years later, I found it to start off well, with some new, original and decent stories (not adapted from film), two sides to those stories, Heroes and Villains, to play on, and many new and interesting mechanics that suit the characters as you'd expect, with the Villain levels especially handling them well. And while Lego Batman does have some aspects that improve over Lego Star Wars, such as a larger character-swapping range and automatic stud collection in the vehicle levels, it is not without its problems.

Regarding the visuals, a few textures, such as the red syrup and liquid drop particles, have not aged well. And the ambient occlusion is just UGLY! It just looks like a weird, transparent shell surrounding the characters. (I just kept it off.) The Batcave is what you'd want the Hero hub to be, but I don't think the Villain hub should be Arkham Asylum, since it's technically not their headquarters. The character roster is probably not as big as you might want for a Lego game, but it does offer a decent selection. While a few characters like Batgirl and Nightwing are here too, they have nothing to do with the stories. Getting into the gameplay, you'll find that the grappling is probably a bit slower than what you'd expect, and Robin's magnet suit walking is tedious, although it mostly doesn't overstay its welcome whenever used. There are a few annoying bosses: Catwoman's is repetitive and unchallenging, while Harley Quinn's just involves a bunch of chasing and hitting that gets longer, each time you beat her, and there's a MAJOR bug where Mad Hatter despawns mid-fight, but it can be avoided. (I tried beating the henchmen first, before only punching Hatter as many times as necessary. And, I think it worked. I guess?) Some of the same music is used across many of the different levels, which is kind of distracting. Speaking of levels, the Hero Suit Upgrades and the Extras are both collected as Red Power Bricks. The former are collected in the Hero levels, while the latter are collected by the Villains. Why can't they be distinct pickups? It's also tedious to switch between suits in Free Play mode, because you're constantly switching between characters, based on certain situations. There's also an annoying issue with a slide in the "Arctic World" level: you can't restart it if you fail to get the Minikit, meaning you'll have to start that level over again. Also, strangely, the game will give you a 100% score, even if you haven't purchased all of the characters. As for the lackluster bonus content, the "Wayne Manor" level was dull, with its bland, out-of-place platforming and a tedious task of rolling spheres to destroy fans. "Arkham Asylum" was much, much better, since it created something of a challenge with the inclusion of enemies and utilization of many of the game's mechanics.

While I wouldn't call this game an improvement over Lego Star Wars, even with a few updated aspects, Lego Batman: The Video Game is still a decent, average-level adventure for fans to fly into.

Final Score: 7.5/10

100% in about 30 hours. Though there are portions of the game that are near unbearable (boats) the level design is absolutely beautiful and the suit system gives the story a much needed engaging element and variety. Also being able to play as the villains was based and red-pilled.

It took me 30 minutes to complete Wayne Manor to get Ra's Al Ghul and nothing special about him. Overall 10/10 nostalgic game, i really recommend this game since it only cost 2 Bucks for the trilogy during sales

i have played a lot of Lego games and I love them and grown up with them but surprisingly have never tried this one and i saw it on sale so i got it and i am glad i did because it still holds up after all these years only downside is there's no achievements in the PC version overall great game that I would recommend to Lego game fans

i recommend this game for others and its a great lego game. i just 100% it to heal my inner child and nostalgia

A masterclass in simplicity, and an easy 100%

idk if its just an issue with my game but it crashes often other then that the game is good if i could play it on pc

The first thing everyone should do when they download this game, is go into options, video settings, and then turn vertical sync on. Otherwise, you will have issues with robot panels and jumping, so much so that the game is practically unplayable. once v-sync is on though, these issues go away.

I paid 4.99 for the Lego batman trilogy bundle, and it's interesting. For some reason Lego Batman 2 is a bit of a buggy mess, especially with the Computer/Ai pathing for player 2, but yet every issue I have in Lego batman 2, it just just works in Lego Batman 1. This game hasn't changed from my rose tinted nostalgia, and still holds out as a fun game.
so far on steam
Lego Batman 1>Lego Batman 2

Game is perfect, caracthers is perfect and I am BATMAN!

to many bugs cant even pass the first level, game constantly crashes

yes, yes, and YES!
i have enjoyed this game on the DSI, COMPUTER, WII, and XBOX. Thank you batman and robin

Can you please update and fix the bugs? I can't even get through the first Level. l've tried many ways to fix it but I still can't get through it.

9/10
Genuinely one of the best Lego games ever made and a great introduction to batman with plenty of batman's villains. Unfortunately side hero characters like nightwing and batgirl get no screentime so its mostly batman and robin with alfred only appearing in the batcave. There are 6 chapters, 5 levels per chapter, split evenly between heroes and villains the villain side really being a nice feature ,as its ,something I'd never seen done before at the time.
The Story is decent to sum it up quickly, Batman and Robin are going around gotham capturing the inmates of arkham asylum who are causing chaos meanwhile on the villain side it acts as a set up how villains got to where they are in the hero missions. The Gameplay consist mainly of solving puzzles and doing some pretty basic combat and some platforming. The puzzles are easy but fun the unique abilities from certain suits/powers from characters adds to the fun of solving puzzles.
Combat isnt really a highlight of Lego games especially during the time this game was made so although its pretty bland there are some funny interactions you can have with each of the characters abilities in combat such as Mr.freeze with his freeze ray turning people into ice cubes or Banes grab attack doing the iconic spine snap.
I personally found the vehicle levels of the game to be the worst levels out of every chapter mainly because of how awful it is to control its just annoying to play thru.
Overall I think the game is a must buy its slightly outdated in some areas but for what it provides for being nearly a 20yr old game its definitely worth a try

Great game it brought back memories of 14 years ago I recommend it but you have to solve the crash problem before playing (there is a settings guide in the comments)

it was really good but my laptop couldnt handle it so i didnt play it much but itd great

Game crashes within 5 minutes and other things are glitched in game just on the FIRST LEVEL! DO NOT BUY IN CURRENT STATE!

great game but i got stuck on the level enterprizing theft and i dont know how to beat it because of the robot that gets stuck when i try to control him which sucks cus this game is crazy good

This game is just great one of the best lego games with fun levels, a simple story, amazing bosses, fun collectables and a small but great hub world i could talk more but i don`t want this to be too long just play the game and enjoy.

This game was a masterpiece, the characters the levels the sfx the vfx. it was as if a band itself was playing whilst i sat there shedding tears playing these levels. 10/10!

i rememeber playing this as a kid with my friends on the ps2 and wii while always having a blast. now as an adult ii played it again and now with my attention span being longer then the games missions. i have done what i couldnt do as a kid.

this game is fun still today and it has its challenges for sure, but nothing to bad. but that might be my nostalgia speaking

This game is one of my most nostalgic games and I was worried it would't hold up. It absolutely does. I really didn't like The Skywalker Saga and this game from 2008 is better. Incredible. Will update review at 100% completion

Pretty fun. Played this on my PS3 as a kid along with my brother, and we decided to replay this 10 years later :)

Sucks that there's no achievements in any games in this trilogy, but oh well I guess. It was still pretty fun!

childhood fave. wish the graphics were a little better though. When you use robins technology suit, some of his robots seem to get stuck and will walk in place along with other graphics issues. if you have this issue, go into the picture options in the game settings and turn on Vertical-sync.

Whatever you do, DON'T enable the enhanced graphics in the settings menu or your game will instantly crash every time you load up the main menu (can't even make it to settings to disable the enhanced graphics before my game crashes).

I've played it way back on my PSP. It was a great game. Now, I decided to purchase and play it again on Steam. Unfortunately, I cannot even play more than 10 minutes without the game crashing. I did the VSync thing, as it is the solution they are saying. Still, issues persists. I'm running the game on RTX 4080 Ryzen 9

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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This game is an absolute classic, for me and for millions of other people, the atmosfere is immersive and dark just like the Batman comics, films and shows.

I first played this game on the PS2, my childhood console and the moment i put the disc in and booted the game I could feel something special about it.

You should buy the game, NOW!! *thunder*
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This game is amazing, one of the first games I ever played. However. the steam version fucken sucks man. I can't play for more than 20 minutes without a crash.

I really like this game, but there are so many game breaking bugs I can't recommend it. The ai pathfinding of your ally can also be so frustrating to deal with.

I enjoy the LEGO games, and this one had some fun challenges and characters to choose from. My only major complaint in this one is that Arctic World's slide Minikit was unnecessarily difficult to get when playing solo, so it was kind of a pain to finish things up. I also didn't feel like the end was quite as climactic as it could have been when you reach 100% completion, but the game itself was fun and I felt like overall it was a good addition to the series. 6/10.

Ver nice and simplistic game, one of the best lego games out there and has a very interesting story

This game was a childhood memory of mine and, yeah while i never chose to 100% a video game before i tried to many time to 100% this game, 10/10 game would buy again

One of the best lego games and one of the best american games. its so nice to play a game from a time when american game companies cared about making good fun games, and not just making as much money as possible.

One of the first LEGO games I played back in the day. The character roster is great and the physical comedy in the cutscenes is wholesome fun.

LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame - 2025 review

• The music and sound effects are quintessentially LEGO, perfectly capturing the whimsical tone of the game. Minimal voice acting, consisting of grunts and mumbles, complements the artistic direction and adds charm to the experience.
  
• The levels are well-structured, with straightforward layouts, simple yet satisfying puzzles, and occasional boss battles. Each level takes around 10-20 minutes to complete, making it ideal for players with limited time. Collectibles in Free Play add a layer of replayability and encourage exploration, which is a welcome bonus.
  
• The game runs smoothly on most systems and is very stable. While I experienced minor frame drops, they were infrequent and not disruptive.
  
• LEGO Batman offers great value for its price and frequently goes on sale, making it an excellent deal for budget-conscious players.

• The core mechanics are straightforward and easy to grasp, perfectly designed for younger audiences. Despite its simplicity, the gameplay remains solid and enjoyable. However, some actions can feel clunky, such as accidentally hitting allies or breaking objects instead of engaging enemies. While the game’s low difficulty mitigates these frustrations, they can still be mildly annoying. Progression, unfortunately, stagnates after the first couple of acts since most character abilities are introduced early on.
  
• As with many older LEGO games, the minimal story serves as a backdrop to justify the characters’ actions. The absence of traditional voice acting and the reliance on mumbles and gestures enhance the humor and lighthearted tone. While the humor is geared toward children, it retains a charm that can entertain older players as well. The roster of Gotham’s heroes and villains is extensive, though some characters lack distinct gameplay personalities.
  
• While the character models and animations hold up surprisingly well, the environmental textures feel dated. The contrast between bland backgrounds and vibrant LEGO objects can be visually jarring.
  
• Free Play adds replay value by unlocking additional content and encouraging exploration. However, the repetitive nature of the levels can make extended playthroughs feel tedious. Completing the game normally takes around 15 hours, while 100% completion can take up to 30 hours, which is reasonable.

• The lack of a dynamic screen-splitting mechanic—a feature introduced in later LEGO games—hampers the co-op experience. This limitation significantly reduces exploration potential and can be frustrating for players.
  
[*] While the levels are generally well-designed, the simplicity of boss battles is a letdown, making them feel like missed opportunities for more engaging encounters.

Very good <3 accidentally activated player two and couldn't disconnect player two unless i restarted the game but other than that fantastic game with great nostalgia factor

LEGO Batman completes the original trilogy of LEGO Games, and is very well-regarded due to this. The title is well-deserved, as this game has all of the charm of the other games while also giving off its own haunting atmosphere. The game is a lot of fun and it is a must play for any Lego fans, Batman fans, or gaming fans in general. I highly enjoy the level design, the characters, the free play aspects, and the stories here. My only gripe with the entire game is how odd some things are. For example, the Extra Toggle feature just doesn't work most of the time, if at all, there are no Gold Bricks which is a choice, and there are characters such as Ra's al Ghul who are unlocked in very odd ways. I was scratching my head wondering how I was supposed to get this final character and then he just appeared in the shop. Odd stuff. Overall, though, this game is a masterpiece and gets my seal of approval, for whatever that's worth. 10/10

I have been having a blast revisiting this old timey gem! It works pretty well overall, but there are a few important things to consider before you buy.

First of all, there are occasional crashes. Emphasis on occasional; I don't get too many. But they do happen.

Second, it is IMPERATIVE that you turn on VSync in the options. Otherwise, Tech Suit Robin's car CANNOT go up slopes and you will be softlocked. So go into options, highlight the Vsync option, and move the arrow keys/control stick to the left/right. (Yes, it's a weird control option.)

Once you do that, though, you should be home free! I do recommend playing this with controller, but it is playable on keyboard.

So i got Lego batman i stared playing then i got to this part where robin has to control this mini car thing but it does not move it just spins in circles and i tried it like three times but still did not work then i deleted it and reinstalled it and still did not work so i am just going to watch a video for the first part of the game the i can just go to the bat cave and go to chapter 2. It looks like a good game and maybe did not work for me to i recommend it and see if it work but if not refund it or watch a video. this game is old to so that is probably why

it was fun getting the 100% in the game, even tho i am not the biggest batman fan. The only annoying parts of the game were the enemy spam sometimes and the bad ai of the 2nd character. Would definitely recommend.

great childhood memories were made with this game. glad to see that it still is just as fun. keep in mind that there are some settings you may have to turn off to make some of the movements work.

Great childhood game I used to have whenever I was younger, had a batman birthday cake and everything and got this game from my parents for the Wii. Brings good times to be honest, I say 10/10 game in terms of nostalgia.

Fun but a bit old, weirdly creates a little heat on my PC. Crashing error was annoying, but fixed by Vsync. Fun game and sometimes a bit puzzling, but so many ways to play levels, I can't complain.

Nostalgic

The game is great and very fun just like any other lego game that i have had. The only thing I have to say is that when i need to jump in levels, sometimes it will not let me and it makes it difficult to not onlly get through the levels, but makes it frustrating at times. If there is a way to fix this please let me know, but otherwise, great ggame, i love it!

17 minutes in and it crashed, this game is far too old to play properly. A relic of the past

Must play with VSync on at 60 frames and its perfect! Nostalgia 11/10

This game has dancing robot with catchy music. What more do you want?

100% percented the game, the only problem is that Ra has gul is completely useless since you get him after getting 100%.