When did LEGO Battles come out?

LEGO Battles was released on 9 June 2009 for Nintendo DS.

LEGO Battles (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

LEGO Battles

Play through six distinct storylines in the game to create your base, buildings and team and deploy your troops for battle! Test your strategies in single-player campaign or Free Play mode to unlock hidden…

60 9 June 2009

What LEGO Battles is

LEGO Battles is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Hellbent Games and released in 2009. It was published by Lego Group. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Play through six distinct storylines in the game to create your base, buildings and team and deploy your troops for battle! Test your strategies in single-player campaign or Free Play mode to unlock hidden treasures, or play against two of your friends to put your soldiers on the road to victory!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the LEGO series

LEGO Battles is the 75th of 248 entries we hold in the LEGO series. The next entry was LEGO Rock Band in 2009. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight at 89.

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How it was received

LEGO Battles holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

LEGO Battles launched on 9 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3 and Prototype. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3, Prototype.

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