Lego Gets Into DLC Season Passes With Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

20 titles in, Warner Bros. have announced the first ever season pass scheme for one of their Lego video games. What you'll get with the Batman 3: Beyond Gotham pass are six separate DLC packs, and the first three to be announced sound rather imaginative and fun.

The first is reportedly a Lego riff on the big chase from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, though they're using a minifig of Bane to promote it and so there's bound to be some Dark Knight Rises elements in their too. Personally, I think these films could use a little Lego spoofing, and so this sounds like a fun one to me.

The second will be a 75th anniversary pack, in which the players will take on the roles of the Joker and Harley Quinn, setting out a would-be deadly birthday party for the caped crusader. That's a nifty concept, and just the sort of loopy thing that Lego games give Warner Bros. license to play around with.

And then there's a Man of Steel pack, set in the film's Kryptonian prologue. The players' mission, in the inch-high plastic forms of Jor-El and Lara, will be to send off the probe carrying Kal-El and set his entire Superstory in motion.

Those will all drop on November 11th, the day that the game itself is released, with three more included in the Season Pass price and set to be announced later. We're far to early for anything Dawn of Justice related, aren't we? I wonder what else they might be planning.

It's good that there's plenty of DLC coming for the game, better still that it's going to be offered at a Season Pass price, and best of all, I think, that it all sounds so imaginative. It's also Warner Bros. catching this series up with some of the more recent possibilities in gaming.

But they still seem a little behind on one front. Aren't Lego games the perfect excuse for something in the Toys-to-Life genre, like Skylanders and Disney Infinity. I'd love to see the Lego riff on something like this.