The climatic finale of Episode IV showcases the new free-roaming vehicle levels, so now they won't feel like some cheesy Star Wars-themed Disney ride. So if you're tired of the typical blaster/saber combination, play as Leia and bitch-slap your way back to the Millennium Falcon. "A lot of the main characters have distinctive melee attacks," says Gullett. Playing as the Princess really packs a punch, too.
Saving the Princess is a big point in the game, mainly because it's one of the few times when you'll sport a party larger than three-during the Death Star rescue, you'll be toting along up to six different characters at a time. "You'll now see a similar mechanic with the blaster characters-hit the attack button while a bullet is coming in and you'll dodge it." Evading enemies isn't the only new feature, either-Han now has a signature dive-and-shoot mechanic, perfect for picking off stormtroopers while escaping the cantina. "In the first game, the Jedi were able to block shots," says Production Assistant Jeffrey Gullett. EPISODE IVīefore Luke masters the lightsaber, Han Solo's blaster will be your weapon of choice-and expect gun-toting characters to do more now than just stand and shoot. Let's take a little star tour through the game via some key scenes. But now that the prequel trilogy is complete, we'l finally get our hands on the only movies that matter: Episodes IV, V, and VI. Well, the Forceful combination worked-roughly 3 million Youngings forked over their Jedi dough for the first Lego Star Wars. Get on it Traveller's Tales.Īlong time ago (actually about a year ago), the blockheads at developer Traveller's Tales teamed up with Star Wars to piece together an unlikely game of Legos and lightsabers. In fact we'd love a whole range of notorious tyrants from history portrayed in LEGO. It'd probably be another platform adventure, with references being chucked about like confetti, but we'd still love it - especially the bit where your bump into a LEGO Hitler and get his autograph. Well, by that we mean we can't help but wonder if they'll make a Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures game. What with Traveller's Tales wallowing around freely in Lucasfilm's intellectual property like a rich lady's fat spoilt cat we can't help but wonder what other movie licences the team might get their hands on. Using blasters and lightsabers you plough through hordes of Stormtroopers, Imperials and a revelatory father figure, who now presents a choking hazard in more ways than one.
The attack on the Death Star, the bit with the massive party everybody had with pointless CG fireworks, it's all in here. You take command of a tiny brick edition of a Star Wars character, playing through the biggest scenes of each of the classic movies. The on-foot sections, for example, are essentially the same as in the previous game. The gameplay itself is quite basic, and without the deliciously subtle (and entirely mute) humour, the game just wouldn't have any impetus. In fact, it's what carries the game through three episodes. Whether it's in a plastic Princess Leia's attempts to jam a disc into R2-D2 where the slot would normally be, before just opening his head and chucking it in, or Obi-Wan Kenobi using the Force to disassemble an Imperial blast door and arbitrarily reassemble it as a TIE fighter in order to proceed, LEGO Star Wars' charisma is evident throughout. It's just brilliant, and that's where the game's charm lies. It's a parody of Lucas and it's a parody of knobbly bits of plastic, sometimes both at the same time.
LEGO Star Wars is so appealing because it never takes either of its foundations seriously.
The snap-together combination of a very rich Dane's plastic bricks and a very rich American's space opera, it's what a more traditional journalist might call a nerdgasm (that's a nerd's orgasm). Lucas rants aside (for now), if you haven't played LEGO Star Wars, this game will appear intimidating in its childlike innocence. This doesn't need pointing out, but the trilogy of movies this game is based on gives this game a very big triptych of reasons to gloat over its sibling. And I won't insult you by comparing Chewbacca and Jar Jar Binks - that's like comparing peppermint ice cream and some sort of poisonous version of the same thing. Luke Skywalker is way cooler than Anakin 'Nooooooooo' Skywalker. Princess Leia is hotter than Patty or Panda or whatever her name was. The reason LEGO Star Wars II is better than its precursor is simply because A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Buck and Return Of The Jedi are far better movies than those other ones George Lucas made. But not because Traveller's Tales have taken the gameplay in a different direction.
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