

Regetti (played by British actor Mackenzie Crook) can throw his eye, and there are not a lot of characters that can say that." We also have characters with their own particular quirks and abilities as well. They can use the air in the barrels to be able to walk under the water. "Yes, the characters can swim and dive and hide in barrels. They also have the ability to discover secrets and surprises, particularly Captain Jack Sparrow, who can use his compass to reveal hidden objects in the environment in a way that LEGO characters have never done before." They can have fights high above ships, clambering through the rigging. Pirates are amazing because they are incredibly athletic they can climb and clamber into positions that our LEGO characters have never got into before. The recent LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars introduced strategic elements to the series so what new ideas have you brought with LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean? It was about accentuating the things and moments that work particularly well in LEGO form." A lot of the early work in the design stage was about distillation. When we settled on the opportunity of making a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean game, we obviously didn't want to settle on just one movie, full of action and incident and fun as that would be, so we settled on doing four movies. "We love having the broadest possible amount of content to draw on, but we are always looking to put more and more into each game. It must have been quite a challenge to summarise four separate blockbuster movies into one game. " Pirates of the Caribbean was absolutely the natural next choice as a LEGO game for us to make because it is full of fun and mischief and surprise, and it has great characters for us to fill a LEGO universe colourful and highly differentiated characters with cool abilities having adventures in a wide variety of locations. So, Pirates of the Caribbean must have seemed a pretty natural fit for the next LEGO Video Game. Digital Spy talked to TT Games' head of production Jonathan Smith about the new game, working with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the joy of pirates. Regardless of the origins, LEGO and Pirates of the Caribbean appears to be a match made in heaven, with the game covering the entire saga from first movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl, right up to the new movie, On Stranger Tides, due out next month. In today's often bizarre world of entertainment cross-overs, it seems strangely fitting that a film series inspired by a theme park ride should in turn provide the basis for a video game inspired by a toy brand. (Surely, James Bond must be next to get the LEGO treatment?). After Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman and Harry Potter, the hugely popular LEGO Video Games series takes on Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney's goliath movie franchise.
