Sony is bringing three retro LEGO video games to PlayStation Plus later this month, including one of the best titles in TT Games' extensive back catalogue.
June’s PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium line-up includes three more LEGO video games, joining a roster of titles already available through the higher tiers of the platform’s subscription service. Coming to Extra – the middle tier of the scheme – are LEGO The Hobbit and LEGO The Incredibles, both developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Games in 2014 and 2018 respectively.
Both of those games have healthy average scores on gaming review aggregator Metacritic, having arrived in that period when TT Games had really finetuned its LEGO formula. And while the basic building blocks of the games may have been starting to grow stale by the time The Incredibles rolled out, introducing Pixar characters to the fold did enough to earn it a Metascore of 69/100.
If you’re coming to LEGO The Hobbit in 2024, it’s worth noting that the game only covers the first two films in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings prequel trilogy. TT Games was apparently planning to release downloadable content covering the final instalment, The Battle of the Five Armies, but it never materialised.
PlayStation Plus Premium members, meanwhile, are getting the really juicy stuff: a polished and enhanced version of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, TT Games’ second title from a galaxy far, far away that originally dropped in 2006. It’s a reworking of the PSP rather than PS2 release, with new features including quick save, rewind and custom video filters, alongside up-rendered visuals.
There weren’t many differences between the PSP and PS2 versions of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy when the game first arrived. In fact, while the GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS ports were hugely watered down, the PSP managed to run pretty much the full console version, only with slightly worse graphics.
If Sony has closed that visual gap while reworking the game to run on PS4 and PS5, we’re basically going to be partying like it’s 2006. Trophy support has yet to be confirmed, but other PS Plus classic titles have started to receive retroactive trophies in recent weeks, so fingers crossed there's another LEGO platinum trophy to be had here.
LEGO The Hobbit, LEGO The Incredibles and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy will all be playable for PlayStation Plus members with access to their respective subscription tiers from June 18.
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