Another day, another big budget Hollywood blockbuster recreated in virtual plastic bricks. We’ve had Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones and even Batman, but now it’s time to play around in the best theme park to never exist. Lego’s recent track-record has been pretty good, offering us bigger and more elaborate games but with that same old charm that makes them so addictive. It was only a matter of time before they got on board the Jurassic Park franchise and what better time than with the release of yet another box-office behemoth.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jurassic World awaits you.

We all know what to expect from the Lego games by now, so I knew I’d be in for a good time. Despite bearing the name of the latest, and arguably worst, film in the franchise, there is a lot more here than what the box suggests. This game spans across all four movies in chronological order, so if you’re expecting to jump straight in to raptor training with Chris Pratt, then you’re going to have earn that privilege. Kicking things off with the original and best film, things move at a fairly brisk pace. You’ll go from the opening archaeological dig to the famous T-Rex escape in ten minutes. It cuts the flab and goes straight for the action, adding the usual levels of absurdity that the Lego games always do so well. The iconic scenes get a glaze of silliness and the darker elements of the film, i.e. brutal murder by velociraptor, are toned down to keep the game suitable for younger players. The famous velociraptors in the kitchen scene, which in the film was a tense chase sequence, becomes a slapstick game of cat and mouse that has you springing various improvised traps upon them. The inclusion of Laura Dern’s character being able to jump headfirst into giant piles of dinosaur excrement is quite frankly hilarious and possibly my favourite thing about the game. The opening chapter is by far the game’s strongest, offering up plenty of laughs and heaps of nostalgia.

From there we begin our excursion into the realms of The Lost World and Jurassic Park III. Whilst their film counterparts aren’t on par with the original, their send-ups here are every bit as entertaining as what has proceeded. The Lost World segment succeeds because it cuts out all the unnecessariness of the movie (Which makes you wonder how they even churned out more than two levels) and really runs with the action scenes. Also you get to spend more time running around as a Lego-fied Jeff Goldblum, that’s an automatic three stars right there. The first few levels do let it down though as nothing particularly exciting happens, things pick up as you move towards the film’s climax though.