LEGO Alpha Team

LEGO Alpha Team is a video game created by Digital Domain which was released in 2000. The Alpha Team theme that followed in 2001 was based on the game.LEGO Alpha Team Developer Interview
== Description ==
The game puts the player in the role of the Alpha Team chief, in a space station orbiting Earth, commanding the Alpha Team members as they infiltrate Ogel's four bases (Ogel Island Laboratories, the Goo Caverns, the Deep Sea Orb Factory, and the secret Arctic Command Base). The player is guided by Tee Vee and commands rest of the Alpha Team:
*Dash, the motion expert
*Crunch, the explosives expert
*Radia, the lasers expert
*Charge, the electrical expert
*Cam, the motors expert
*Flex, the ropes expert
The game's plot revolves around Ogel's D.O.O.M. Machine producing Evil Orbs that turn regular townspeople into mindless zombies, with Ogel secretly plotting to launch a Boggle Rocket to spread these orbs across the entire globe. Alpha Team agents infiltrate Ogel's compounds around the world but are captured and imprisoned in Trouble Tubes, leaving only Tee Vee, Dash, and the player as the last free members of the team. With the player's leadership and Tee Vee's instructions, Dash travels between each of Ogel's bases, using equipment to rescue his fellow teammates, open locked doors, neutralize Evil Orbs, and foil Ogel's plan to take over the world.
A Game Boy Color version of the game retains the same basic gameplay as the PC game. There are minor differences from the PC version's plot: Cam is rescued in the Deep Sea Factory, while Flex and the D.O.O.M. Machine are both found in the Ogel Arctic Base.
==Characters==
Character	Missions 	Expertise 	Image	Unlocked 	Equipment
Dash 	42 (PC)32 (GBC)	Motion 	 	Mission One (PC)Ogel Island (GBC) 	
*Direction Tile
*Stairs
*Slide
*Jump Tile
*Trampoline
*Dash's Diving Board
Crunch 	17 (PC)24 (GBC)	Explosives 	 	The Trouble Tube (PC)The Tachyon Trap (GBC) 	
*Plunger Detonator
*Remote Control Bomb
*Puncher
*Platform
*SeeSaw with Ball
*Crunch's Rolling Bomb
Radia 	17 (PC)4 (GBC) 	Lasers 	 	Trouble Train Depot (PC)Power Down (GBC) 	
*Plunger Laser
*Horizontal Mirror
*Vertical Mirror
*Dangler with Heavy Weight
*Cannon
*Radia's Laser Launcher
Charge 	11 (PC)3 (GBC) 	Electricity	 	Trouble Tube Twist (PC)Too Many Mirrors (GBC)	
*Laser Generator
*Plunger Generator
*Antigravity Device
*Catapult with Rock
*Turbo Tube
*Charge's Portable Elevator
Cam 	10 (PC)2 (GBC) 	Motors 	 	Trouble Sub Rescue (PC)The Water Trap (GBC) 	
*Electric Motor
*Plunger Motor
*Belt Box
*Motorised Generator
*Motor Laser
*Cam's Ejector Seat
Flex 	7 (PC)2 (GBC) 	Ropes 	 	Rescue Flex! (PC)Snow Jumping (GBC) 	
*Rope Tugger
*Rope Pull Motor
*Rope Guide
*Teeter-totter
*Flex's Helmet Dangler
Tee Vee 	All 	Basics 	 	Mission One (PC)Ogel Island (GBC) 	N/A
==Locations==
Location 	Characters 	Missions (PC)	Missions (GBC)
Ogel Island Laboratories 	DashCrunchRadia 	
*Mission One
*On the Right Path
*The Hidden Hop
*The Which-Way Warehouse
*The Triple Jump
*High and Low
*Sliding By
*The Trouble Tube
*Crunch Time
*Boom Room
*Crisscross
*Yee-Haw, See-Saws!
*See-Saw Doublecross
*Demolition Derby
*Fill in the Blanks
*Punch a Bunch of Punchers
*Tag-Team Crossover
*Trouble Train Depot	
*Ogel Island
*The Right Path
*The Left Path
*The Warehouse
*The Tachyon Trap
*The Boom Room
*Blocking The Way
*Power Down
Goo Caverns 	DashCrunchRadiaChargeCam (PC)	
*Entrance to the Goo Caverns
*See-Saw Laser Maze
*Mirror Madness
*Mirror Mirror
*Too Many Mirrors
*You Know the Drill
*Barrel Hop
*Confused
*Trouble Tube Twist
*Hectic Electric
*Pump Room Jump
*Have See-Saw, Will Travel
*Double Trouble
*Turbo Relay
*Second Step's a Doozy
*Trouble Sub Rescue	
*The Goo Caverns
*The Laser Maze
*Mirror Madness
*Mirror Mirror
*Too Many Mirrors
*Hectic Electric
*Double Trouble
*Tubular Dude
Deep Sea Orb Factory 	DashRadiaChargeCamFlex (PC) 	
*Trouble Sub Docking Bay
*Cam in Control
*Double-Duty Charge
*Ejector Sector
*Rescue Flex!
*Tug Team
*Drop into Danger
*Computer Hop
*Dash's Decoy
*The D.O.O.M. Room	
*Deep Sea Factory
*The Aqua Maze
*Conveyor Belts
*Production Line
*The Water Trap
*Control Room
*Central Computer
*Ogel Orb Store
Hidden Arctic Command Base	DashCrunchRadiaChargeCamFlex 	
*Arctic Dash
*Crunch Punch
*Rely on Radia
*Charge in Charge
*Cam's Challenge
*Featuring Flex
*Mission Control	
*Ogel Arctic Base
*Snow Jumping
*Ice Maze Madness
*Ice Breaker
*Ice Block Hop
*Orb Loading Bay
*Snow Way Out
*D.O.O.M Doorway
== Versions ==
Set number	Console 	Price
5714 	Windows PC 	US $19.99
5725 	Gameboy Color	US $29.99
== Development ==
Visual effects company and then-consumer software developer Digital Domain pitched the concept for what would become LEGO Alpha Team to LEGO Media in 1998.LEGO Media International Goes to Hollywood: Inks Agreement With Digital Domain to Develop Children's Computer Software.Industry Veteran Joins Digital Domain Interactive as Executive Producer of Technology; Ronald Fortier to Launch Recently Announced Lego Media International Project. The game was first imagined and remains as a puzzle game where the player builds LEGO contraptions and directs minifigures to solve puzzles.
For the first year and a half of development, the game had a surreal and imaginative theme, with a variety of different characters forming the "Trans-International LEGO Team" (or T.I.L.T.)Stories from Digital Domain: Tom Mott - JOM and worlds based on objects in a real house (for example, Aromazona, a world of giant flowers, which corresponded to a flower pot in the real world).
A year and a half into production (six months before release), LEGO Media told the developers to completely overhaul the game and give it a "spy" theming, thinking the original concept didn't fit in with how they marketed themes. The game was quickly revised, and Digital Domain designed entirely new characters, keeping only Tee Vee and Ogel from the earlier ideas.
Closer to release, the game was briefly named and advertised as "LEGO Action Team" before changing to its final name. These ads also showed box art with slightly earlier versions of the final cast of characters.
== Notes ==
*This game is known to have a technical problem when played on Windows XP. Each time it's played on XP, the music and voice clips have a glitch where they all loop continuously after a few seconds unless they are muted in the options screen, which is the only way around this glitch since there is no patch for it.
*In the Single Missions screen, Cam's Challenge is listed twice.
== Gallery ==
N-tit-lego-at.jpg|LEGO Action Team version of the logo, from the website of the developer of the Game Boy Color version
Large UK 2000 c00uk2 Action Team and Stunt Rally.jpg|An ad for the game as LEGO Action Team from a 2000 UK large catalog, featuring an earlier version of the box art and character designs
18067-lego-alpha-team-windows-front-cover.jpg|Windows PC version
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Mania magazine september october 2000 alpha team ad.jpg|An ad in the September-October 2000 LEGO Mania Magazine
Alpha Team coming soon.jpg|Coming soon poster
5725 LEGO Alpha Team.jpg|Game Boy Color version
Lego Alpha Team|Intro cutscene
LEGO Alpha Team Trailer|Trailer version of the intro without music, as seen on LEGO demo discs
Lego Character Animation-2|Animations by Chris Guzman: "I based this Lego character after myself, I designed and animated him for the game Lego Alpha Team."https://sites.google.com/site/chrisguzmanphoto/vfx
== References ==
== External links ==
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