Bionicle Heroes

Unleash the Power of the Bionicle Heroes

NA release: 14th November 2006
EU release: N/A
JP release: N/A
Developer: Traveller’s Tales
Publisher: Eidos Interactive, TT Games Publishing
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: None

While this is a third person shooter, you can immediately tell that this was built with the same engine as Lego Star Wars, with the same menus, hubs and so on. One immediate difference, though, is the storytelling. In Lego Star Wars you have the text crawl, and some great silent storytelling as well as being based on extremely well known films. Here you see a Bionicle shove a slug into another Bionicle and that’s it.

As a third person shooter, it feels horrible. It’s essentially a single stick game with no manual aiming, and you can only strafe while you’re firing your gun (and can no longer turn). Shooting is done with A while L, R and Y lets you transform into different Bionicle, which have different weapons and abilities, such as one that uses the force. You only start with a couple and need to find masks on the level to turn into the others.

Another important aspect is Hero Mode, which turns the stud collectables into a gameplay feature. Gather enough and you’ll turn into a golden, invincible Bionicle, which is required to activate some features of a level. This means that, when you encounter a boss, it can sometimes take absolutely ages of mindlessly killing enemies until it recharges, not fun at all.

Especially with how the lock one works (or, more precisely, doesn’t): your character will decide what to shoot, with no way to change, which is a pain when minor enemies are near a boss. I do like the attempt to put the Lego format into new genres, but this didn’t work so they just did the same thing for a few decades.

Poor

If you were a massive fan of the Lego Star Wars games then by all means check out Bionicle Heroes – to a very large degree it looks like the same game, and as such you’ll get the same kind of grinding enjoyment out of mining all the levels for booty. But with some key differences between the two and a general lack of the variety and charm that LSW had in spades, this feels like a step back.
Kristan Reed, IGN

Remake or remaster?

Not for this.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to get Bionicle Heroes.