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Building on the success of both LEGO Star Wars videogames, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga enables families to play through the events of all six Star Wars movies in one videogame for the first time ever. From the Trade Federation’s “negotiations” with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace to the space battle above Endor in Return of the Jedi, The Complete Saga allows players to kick some brick through 36 Story Mode levels, including Episode II’s newly added high-speed pursuit of bounty hunter Zam Wessell. Traveller’s Tales has revamped levels from the original LEGO Star Wars to match the gameplay evolutions found in LEGO Star Wars II, and Prequel Trilogy characters can now be mixed and matched with those from the Original Trilogy — more than 160 in all. Features include new playable characters, an upgraded character customizer, and new bonus levels.

Genre: Action Compilation

Publisher: LucasArts

Developer: Traveller’s Tales

Online Play: 2 Co-op

Local Play: 2 Co-op

November 9, 2007 –
There’s just something about the LEGO Star Wars series that works. With the first game, released in 2005, developer Traveller’s Tales took two great brands, smashed them together and created something instantly familiar yet refreshingly new.

The effort was a grand departure from the vast majority of licensed games, which are often nothing more than transparent attempts to wring a few measly Republic Credits out of an established name. LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II were both successful ventures — a rare combination of kid-friendly gameplay that also grabbed the hearts and minds of gamers with more mature tastes.

That’s why we were excited to get our hands on the latest member of TT’s blocky little family: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which pulls LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II together in one cohesive package.

The Complete Saga is essentially a straight compilation of those games, bumped up to HD-quality and lightly tweaked, and it will be most appealing to people who have never played the games at all or gamers who played one or both but don’t already own them.

If you’re not familiar with the LEGO Star Wars concept, here’s a quick breakdown. The first game covers the “prequel” Star Wars films (Episodes I-III), and the second picks up where its predecessor left off (Episodes IV-VI). Each game is an action/puzzle/platform version of the story segment it covers, fast-forwarding through the highlights of every movie with LEGO approximations standing in for their real-life counterparts.

Plans within plans.

Rather than simply slap the two games together and forcing the player to choose one from the main menu, TT smartly chose to expand the Mos Eisley Cantina lobby system both LSW games use to move you between episodes.

The Complete Saga drops you into the Cantina to roam as you please – you can mess around in the junkyard, browse the shop, wander over to a two-player arcade arena or jump right in to the game’s lengthy story mode.

After you finish the first chapter of Episode I (there are six chapters in each), the intro chapter of each episode is automatically opened for you, so you can skip around from episode-to-episode if you want to play your favorites first.

But LEGO Star Wars doesn’t limit you simply playing through the story. We plowed through the game’s six episodes in about 12 hours without detouring much for mini-games, arcade play or free play (more on that later). When our eyes refocused, we were surprised to see we’d only completed about 30 percent of the total game. Now that’s replayability.

Chewie and Yoda grab drinks at a tiki bar.

Overall, The Complete Saga is a success. The humor is spot-on, the animation is sharper and shinier than ever, the music and sound are extremely high-quality, and the entire package works on almost every level. The addition of online co-op for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 makes the game’s already enjoyable two-person multiplayer that much better.

Unfortunately, the series has always suffered from a somewhat problematic camera system that can at times be overly restrictive and unforgiving. The camera controls feel a bit better in The Complete Saga, but they’re still frustrating at times.

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November 9, 2007 –
There’s just something about the LEGO Star Wars series that works. With the first game, released in 2005, developer Traveller’s Tales took two great brands, smashed them together and created something instantly familiar yet refreshingly new.

The effort was a grand departure from the vast majority of licensed games, which are often nothing more than transparent attempts to wring a few measly Republic Credits out of an established name. LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II were both successful ventures — a rare combination of kid-friendly gameplay that also grabbed the hearts and minds of gamers with more mature tastes.

That’s why we were excited to get our hands on the latest member of TT’s blocky little family: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which pulls LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II together in one cohesive package.

The Complete Saga is essentially a straight compilation of those games, bumped up to HD-quality and lightly tweaked, and it will be most appealing to people who have never played the games at all or gamers who played one or both but don’t already own them.

If you’re not familiar with the LEGO Star Wars concept, here’s a quick breakdown. The first game covers the “prequel” Star Wars films (Episodes I-III), and the second picks up where its predecessor left off (Episodes IV-VI). Each game is an action/puzzle/platform version of the story segment it covers, fast-forwarding through the highlights of every movie with LEGO approximations standing in for their real-life counterparts.

Plans within plans.

Rather than simply slap the two games together and forcing the player to choose one from the main menu, TT smartly chose to expand the Mos Eisley Cantina lobby system both LSW games use to move you between episodes.

The Complete Saga drops you into the Cantina to roam as you please – you can mess around in the junkyard, browse the shop, wander over to a two-player arcade arena or jump right in to the game’s lengthy story mode.

After you finish the first chapter of Episode I (there are six chapters in each), the intro chapter of each episode is automatically opened for you, so you can skip around from episode-to-episode if you want to play your favorites first.

But LEGO Star Wars doesn’t limit you simply playing through the story. We plowed through the game’s six episodes in about 12 hours without detouring much for mini-games, arcade play or free play (more on that later). When our eyes refocused, we were surprised to see we’d only completed about 30 percent of the total game. Now that’s replayability.

Chewie and Yoda grab drinks at a tiki bar.

Overall, The Complete Saga is a success. The humor is spot-on, the animation is sharper and shinier than ever, the music and sound are extremely high-quality, and the entire package works on almost every level. The addition of online co-op for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 makes the game’s already enjoyable two-person multiplayer that much better.

Unfortunately, the series has always suffered from a somewhat problematic camera system that can at times be overly restrictive and unforgiving. The camera controls feel a bit better in The Complete Saga, but they’re still frustrating at times.

• 1
• 2
• Next
  

November 9, 2007 –
There’s just something about the LEGO Star Wars series that works. With the first game, released in 2005, developer Traveller’s Tales took two great brands, smashed them together and created something instantly familiar yet refreshingly new.

The effort was a grand departure from the vast majority of licensed games, which are often nothing more than transparent attempts to wring a few measly Republic Credits out of an established name. LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II were both successful ventures — a rare combination of kid-friendly gameplay that also grabbed the hearts and minds of gamers with more mature tastes.

That’s why we were excited to get our hands on the latest member of TT’s blocky little family: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which pulls LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II together in one cohesive package.

The Complete Saga is essentially a straight compilation of those games, bumped up to HD-quality and lightly tweaked, and it will be most appealing to people who have never played the games at all or gamers who played one or both but don’t already own them.

If you’re not familiar with the LEGO Star Wars concept, here’s a quick breakdown. The first game covers the “prequel” Star Wars films (Episodes I-III), and the second picks up where its predecessor left off (Episodes IV-VI). Each game is an action/puzzle/platform version of the story segment it covers, fast-forwarding through the highlights of every movie with LEGO approximations standing in for their real-life counterparts.

Plans within plans.

Rather than simply slap the two games together and forcing the player to choose one from the main menu, TT smartly chose to expand the Mos Eisley Cantina lobby system both LSW games use to move you between episodes.

The Complete Saga drops you into the Cantina to roam as you please – you can mess around in the junkyard, browse the shop, wander over to a two-player arcade arena or jump right in to the game’s lengthy story mode.

After you finish the first chapter of Episode I (there are six chapters in each), the intro chapter of each episode is automatically opened for you, so you can skip around from episode-to-episode if you want to play your favorites first.

But LEGO Star Wars doesn’t limit you simply playing through the story. We plowed through the game’s six episodes in about 12 hours without detouring much for mini-games, arcade play or free play (more on that later). When our eyes refocused, we were surprised to see we’d only completed about 30 percent of the total game. Now that’s replayability.

Chewie and Yoda grab drinks at a tiki bar.

Overall, The Complete Saga is a success. The humor is spot-on, the animation is sharper and shinier than ever, the music and sound are extremely high-quality, and the entire package works on almost every level. The addition of online co-op for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 makes the game’s already enjoyable two-person multiplayer that much better.

Unfortunately, the series has always suffered from a somewhat problematic camera system that can at times be overly restrictive and unforgiving. The camera controls feel a bit better in The Complete Saga, but they’re still frustrating at times.

• 1
• 2
• Next
  

November 9, 2007 –
There’s just something about the LEGO Star Wars series that works. With the first game, released in 2005, developer Traveller’s Tales took two great brands, smashed them together and created something instantly familiar yet refreshingly new.

The effort was a grand departure from the vast majority of licensed games, which are often nothing more than transparent attempts to wring a few measly Republic Credits out of an established name. LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II were both successful ventures — a rare combination of kid-friendly gameplay that also grabbed the hearts and minds of gamers with more mature tastes.

That’s why we were excited to get our hands on the latest member of TT’s blocky little family: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which pulls LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II together in one cohesive package.

The Complete Saga is essentially a straight compilation of those games, bumped up to HD-quality and lightly tweaked, and it will be most appealing to people who have never played the games at all or gamers who played one or both but don’t already own them.

If you’re not familiar with the LEGO Star Wars concept, here’s a quick breakdown. The first game covers the “prequel” Star Wars films (Episodes I-III), and the second picks up where its predecessor left off (Episodes IV-VI). Each game is an action/puzzle/platform version of the story segment it covers, fast-forwarding through the highlights of every movie with LEGO approximations standing in for their real-life counterparts.

Plans within plans.

Rather than simply slap the two games together and forcing the player to choose one from the main menu, TT smartly chose to expand the Mos Eisley Cantina lobby system both LSW games use to move you between episodes.

The Complete Saga drops you into the Cantina to roam as you please – you can mess around in the junkyard, browse the shop, wander over to a two-player arcade arena or jump right in to the game’s lengthy story mode.

After you finish the first chapter of Episode I (there are six chapters in each), the intro chapter of each episode is automatically opened for you, so you can skip around from episode-to-episode if you want to play your favorites first.

But LEGO Star Wars doesn’t limit you simply playing through the story. We plowed through the game’s six episodes in about 12 hours without detouring much for mini-games, arcade play or free play (more on that later). When our eyes refocused, we were surprised to see we’d only completed about 30 percent of the total game. Now that’s replayability.

Chewie and Yoda grab drinks at a tiki bar.

Overall, The Complete Saga is a success. The humor is spot-on, the animation is sharper and shinier than ever, the music and sound are extremely high-quality, and the entire package works on almost every level. The addition of online co-op for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 makes the game’s already enjoyable two-person multiplayer that much better.

Unfortunately, the series has always suffered from a somewhat problematic camera system that can at times be overly restrictive and unforgiving. The camera controls feel a bit better in The Complete Saga, but they’re still frustrating at times.

• 1
• 2
• Next