LEGO City Undercover

LEGO City Undercover
Abbreviation	LCU
Developer	TT Fusion
Publisher	Nintendo, Warner Bros. Interactive
Universe	LEGO City
Starting Level	Some Assaults
Starting Characters	Chase McCain (Civilian)
Hub	LEGO City
Release Date	March 18, 2013
Rating	E10
Systems	Wii U; PlayStation 4; Xbox One; Nintendo Switch; Microsoft Windows
Categories	Characters; Levels; Episodes

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LEGO City Undercover is a game released on the Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. It has its own original story, was developed by TT Fusion and published by Nintendo (2013), Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (2017), and TT Games, initially released in March 2013 and has both single-player and co-op.

History[]

Development[]

For a while, TT Games wanted to make a LEGO City themed video game. Development on a game based on the LEGO City theme began in 2010, as just a prototype. Nintendo offered to help make the game in 2011 for their upcoming Wii U console. The Wii U console had a GamePad, a secondary screen that you could hold in your hands, so this gave them opportunities for gameplay mechanics. At E3 2011, LEGO City Stories was revealed to be in development. The game appeared once again at E3 2012, where it was announced to be renamed LEGO City Undercover along with a trailer featuring gameplay; a prequel coming to the 3DS was also announced. The game released on March 18th, 2013 for Wii U.

Rerelease[]

On April 4th, 2017, LEGO City Undercover was released onto PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch adding local co-op along with some minor tweaks, an additional 8 disguises and new vehicles.

Levels[]

Plot[]

After the events of The Chase Begins, Chase McCain was sent away for two years after revealing Natalia Kowalski was the one who testified against Rex Fury. The game begins on his way back to LEGO City. He learns from Mayor Gleeson that Rex has broken out of prison and is then tasked with bringing the criminal to justice again.

Upon arriving at the Cherry Tree Hills police station, he meets Frank Honey and Ellie Phillips, he also learns that Marion Dunby has been made police chief. While Dunby isn't pleased to see Chase again, he only puts up with the former officer because now Dunby can boss him around. He is sure Rex left the city months ago, but Chase insists he's still around and warns Natalia about him. After arresting a group of clown criminals and clearing a roadblock, Natalia zooms by on a car to flee the city. Chase attempts to woo her and convince her he can make things right, but she scoffs, as Chase ended up giving her a lot of grief, leaving with his car.

After obtaining a new car, receiving a grapple gun from Ellie's uncle, sheriff Duke Huckleberry, and returning to the city, Ellie informs him of a group of criminals all atop a tall building, allowing him to try out his new grapple gun. While arresting the final criminal, he learns that the criminals were working for Rex Fury and tells McCain to seek out Blue Whittaker in the prison to find out how Rex escaped. Dunby refuses to let him visit Albatross Prison, but Frank and Captain Bluffbeard take him anyways.

At first Chase assumes Blue helped Rex escape, only to hear that Rex was Blue's best customer for his smuggled goods and hasn't paid him, so he agrees to help Chase infiltrate Rex's cell. Inside the prison, Chase obtains the Robber disguise, allowing him to bypass Warden Stonewall and access Rex's cell. He finds a pickaxe from the Bluebell Mines inside and slides out the exit tunnel Rex dug for himself.

Chase learns from Ellie that some of Rex's thugs stole equipment from the mines a few months back and, despite Dunby's warning to stay away from the mines, infiltrates inside to speak with a witness. Inside he obtains the Miner disguise and makes his way down to find some answers and to find a man named Clarence 'Stinky' Fletcher. Unfortunately Rex's gang had gotten to him first and captured him, as shown by a final recording Clarence created deep within the mine.

Exiting the caves, Chase incidentally runs into Rex. Chase attempts to arrest him again, only for Rex to easily break out of his handcuffs and knock him out with a single punch. When he finally awakens, Natalia and Duke help Chase up, the latter revealing that Natalia's father, Henrik Kowalski has gone missing.

Because of what happened two years ago, Natalia vows to find her father herself. Chase tries to argue back, but he knows he's not strong enough to face Rex again. Duke offers to help by giving him a business card for Barry Smith's dojo to improve his fighting.

Once he's finished training, Chase is called by Frank for assistance, the less experienced officer being captured and stuck in a new police truck by the cove. Fighting off red-clothed goons and regaining control of the truck, he learns from Frank that a criminal enterprise run by Chan Chuang wanted the truck for spare parts.

After losing Chan's men, Frank asks Chase if he can drive the truck to the police station to impress Ellie. Frank, however, loses control of the truck and crashes it into a party at the station where Gleeson is in attendance.

Frank then lets it slip to her that Dunby has taken Chase off the Rex Fury investigation. Attempting to cover his tracks, Dunby allows Chase to go undercover in Chan's gang (whom Chase suspects is working for Rex).

Ellie adds an audio scanning ability to Chase's police communicator and he overhears a phone call from one of Chan's men asking where a man named Bucky Butler is because he's late for his interview with Chan's father, Old Quiang. Chase finds out Bucky made a wrong turn and is at the art gallery in Uptown, so he arrests the criminal before replacing him.

Posing as Bucky, Chase meets Quiang, getting hired as a limo driver to drive eccentric multi-billionaire, Forrest Blackwell to a theater. This impresses Quiang enough for Chase to meet Chan in an alley at Pagoda. He's given the order to steal a car from his rival, later calling Frank to get Ellie to open up a tab for any expenses that may pop up during his investigation. He successfully delivers the car to Chan and is then told to investigate the limo shop during a break in, with Chan demanding Chase not look through his records.

While spying on the stranger, Chase sees empty money bags from Vinnie Pappalardo's ice cream shop. It's later revealed to be a disguised Natalia, doing her own investigation into Chan, as Henrik was last seen getting into a limousine. Still rejecting Chase's offers to help, Natalia leaves Chase alone, depressed at not being able to help.

After letting it slip that Chase had observed the empty money bags from Pappalardo's, Chan reveals that Vinnie's right-hand man, Moe De Luca is being sentenced to imprisonment and that Vinnie would be happy with anyone who could help keep Moe out of prison.

Borrowing a prison transport truck from the police station, Chase picks up Moe from the courthouse and drives him to a hideout after evading the police. Thankful for the help, Moe mentions that a shipment of color guns have come into LEGO City and that Vinnie wants to get his hands on the shipment, so he sends Chase on a mission to steal the truck and deliver it to Vinnie.

Chase enters the Pappalardo's ice cream parlor, meeting with the mob boss who was grateful for the color guns stolen. Nicknaming him 'Chasey', Vinnie sends him to the Lego City bank to steal the Bell Pepper Emerald as a test for said color guns.

Dunby meanwhile starts to get impatient, complaining about how much Chase's undercover work is costing the station, although he admits that Chase was able to get in with Vinnie's gang, something none of the other officers were able to do for years. Dunby sends Chase to get photographic evidence of Chan's key gang members in the process of committing crimes.

After doing so, these gang members are arrested, leaving Chan with only one person left that he trusts to help him: Chase McCain. He sends Chase to Apollo Island to steal a moon buggy (gaining an astronaut outfit along the way that can shoot a ray gun).

After stealing it, Chase is called on again by Dunby to help save Forrest Blackwell from abductors. Scaling the rooftops, McCain saves Blackwell from the abductors and drives Blackwell to the police station. However Blackwell leaves Chase with an eerie message that they would be seeing each other again.

He then receives a call from Natalia who is then captured in Chan's salvage yard. Infiltrating the salvage yard with two officers, Clutch and Studsky, he saves Natalia but Chan escapes during all the chaos. Furious, Dunby orders Chase to be transferred to Bluebell National Park's division to get out of his way, alongside Frank whom he deported for failing to fix Dunby's sink.

The first task there is to rescue Jethro Hayes's escaped pigs, which Chase requires a stinky farmer's disguise to do. After doing so and learning to use the Pig Canons, he receives a call from Vinnie with a job to steal a robotic Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. Guessing that Rex Fury wants the T. Rex skeleton, he agrees. During the process Dunby reluctantly lets Chase back on the case. After delivering the dinosaur skeleton and a fireboat (obtaining the Firefighter disguise in the meantime), Vinnie considers Chase his new right hand man and goes to meet his "private buyer".

Chase then receives a call from Natalia accusing him of having police officers watch over her. As Chase did not set that up, they both realize the black suited strangers aren't other undercover cops, so Chase rushes to the hospital to save her. Calling in a helicopter, Chase flies Natalia to Ellie's apartment, as all the safe houses are occupied by Chan's men, now selling each other out. Before they depart, Natalia apologizes to Chase for being a pain to him and that she knew that he didn't mean to reveal her identity, Chase accepts her apology.

Arriving back at Pappalardo's Moe informs Chase that Vinnie's gone to see the private buyer at the Herbert Hotel, but wants Chase to keep an eye on his younger cousin in case anything happened. It's revealed the buyer is none other than Rex, he hasn't compensated Vinnie for all the stolen items and Vinnie is tired of it. Furious, Vinnie declares he and Chase will do a job just for themselves, stealing from Forrest Blackwell.

Moe drives the fireboat through a hidden tunnel towards the mansion, along the way he tells Chase that awhile back Blackwell had wanted to build an apartment complex and shopping mall in Bluebell National Park and, after spending millions on building a new bridge, was stopped because a rare squirrel was found in the park. Scandalized, Blackwell had began to wall himself off from society.

Chase infiltrates the mansion and attempts to steal a jade falcon for Vinnie, but is stopped by black suited men, similar to the ones Chase fought earlier when saving Natalia, known as The Sentinels., Moe calls Chase to let him know that he hasn't heard from Vinnie in a while and he's worried. It's revealed Rex has betrayed Vinnie, ordering his goons to lock the mafia don in a freezer. Rescuing Vinnie from the freezer, he and Chase force feed the leader goon into revealing Rex's location.

Chase doesn't find out Rex's hideout, but he does get to replace the goon at a construction site, gaining the final disguise, the Construction Worker. Stealing the crane, Chase finds himself going to an observatory to steal a large telescope. After delivering it to a hidden base, Chase discovers Forrest Blackwell was the one who kidnapped Henrik, forcing him to do as he says or else Natalia would be tortured.

After saving Henrik (gaining a jetpack for the astronaut outfit), he and Chase travel to Blackwell's Mansion where they find a model of a moon colony the billionaire planned. They also discovered that the office tower that Blackwell owns is actually a rocket in disguise. Its impending liftoff will destroy half of LEGO City.

Using special forcefields that Henrik developed, Chase is able to protect LEGO City from burning to the ground from the rocket's fumes. However, it is revealed that Natalia is with Blackwell in the rocket ship so Chase travels to the Moon (with the help of Henrik and Mayor Gleeson who is grateful for McCain's protection of LEGO City during the liftoff).

After exploring space, Chase infiltrates the moon base and reprograms the navigation computer to send the rocket back to Earth. Blackwell then sends Rex to finish Chase off, but that fails and because of that Blackwell fires Rex. Blackwell then leaves them on the rocket and he causes the moonbase to self destruct, only for Chase and Rex to survive the blast. On a piece of the wreckage, Rex and Chase fight until Chase is able to arrest Rex. Although, Rex easily escapes the cuffs, they are interrupted by Blackwell in an escape pod. He shouts to Chase that he'll have his revenge on Chase before getting hit by a flying cow which causes the escape pod to fly off into space.

Chase freefalls down to the wreck, making it in time before Natalia and some of the crew crash land on earth, activating the parachute and landing safely back on earth. Dunby finally admits that Chase has done good, although Blackwell got away, Rex crash landed in a person's house and has a toilet stuck on his head.

Dunby offers Chase to have the honor to arrest Rex. But Chase says that Dunby can have it because there are some things more important than arrests, as he and Natalia are romantically holding hands, indicating that they're back together. Frank thought that Chase was talking about "video games" and everyone laughs. A Sentinel from earlier still attempting to catch up with Chase is caught as the picture irises out and he falls off-screen with a "Sentinel out!"

Characters[]

Teams[]

Character list[]

Version Differences[]

Remaster[]

For obvious reasons, all of the Nintendo references were removed from the PC, Playstation and Xbox ports of the game, the Switch version keeps them all however.
Chase's outfit has been changed to be entirely dark blue, although his original outfit can be used for the second player.
The player can no longer rewatch the game's cutscenes from the projector room in the Police Station's third floor. The only way to do so ingame is to replay the game's missions or start a new game
The taxis checkered patterned stripes were replaced with plain black stripes
All the character tokens were changed from circles to hexagons except for two for some odd reason

Gallery[]

Cheat codes[]

Gorilla Suit Guy : xkgzvj
JUSTICE AND RED SPORT CAR : 3GCC7XR
Natalia Kowalski : hvgtpg
Race Car Driver : mhhrhm
Unlocks High Speed Chase Missions/Vehicles : N7NN4F9
Werewolf unlock : Gystqp

Trivia/Unused Content[]

The opening cutscene has Captain Bluffbeard asking a woman what brings her to Lego City, only for her to respond "uh, this boat?" This is a reference to Mama Brickolini's opening movie in LEGO Island which has the same joke.
There were other planned missions for the game, such as towing vehicles, driving a taxi to escort people from place to place for extra Studs and driving a firetruck around, however they were all scrapped.
The characters exclusive to the The Chase Begins have full models and can be modded into the game, they were planned to be unlockables but were scrapped. These include Rex wearing his black mask and Chase without his pants which also weren't in The Chase Begins
The game was also going to feature songs with full lyrics, this was also scrapped for unknown reasons, although instrumental versions of said songs can still be found in the final game. The songs are known in the game's files as Rock Vox and Ruby Jaguar.
The game's files have icons for paramedics and mechanics as well as races with other characters

Games

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LEGO City Undercover


Abbreviation	LCU
Developer	TT Fusion
Publisher	Nintendo, Warner Bros. Interactive
Universe	LEGO City
Starting Level	Some Assaults
Starting Characters	Chase McCain (Civilian)
Hub	LEGO City
Release Date	March 18, 2013
Rating	E10
Systems	Wii U PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Microsoft Windows
Categories	Characters Levels Episodes