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Ever since it all started a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away with LEGO Star Wars, the LEGO games have always been great fun to play (though I have yet to get my hands on the latest few – LEGO Harry Potter, LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars or LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean).  They are a great combination of instinctive arcade game and action puzzler, and each game brings in new elements or changes certain aspects of the existing game play mechanics.  In LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean you replay scenes from all four of the movies, and can control one of seventy different characters from the movies.  Not entirely sure what’s really new in this one, but the essential game play with its fun combat, platforming and puzzle-solving will of course be there.  The graphics seem to improve with each new LEGO game, and co-op game play is always hugely enjoyable.

Of course with Pirates of the Caribbean you have the advantage of some outlandish characters anyway – not only Jack Sparrow but a whole host of others (whose names I forget right now, but I’m sure you’ve all got your own favourite characters from the films).  Hopefully Travellers Tales Games have managed to eradicate their habit of releasing Wii Games that could still do with some extra bug-testing – I certainly hope so, as in all other ways it looks like being a great game.