Lego Star Wars the Videogame

Stop laughing! I’m serious; Lego Star Wars the Videogame and the sequel, Lego Star Wars the Videogame 2: The Original Trilogy, are great games.

If you’re a Star Wars fan, or a Lego fan, you’ll like these games.

Here’s the general idea: The Star Wars movies with a Lego twist. Think Star Wars, but a lot funnier. When players/enemies are killed, they collapse into a pile of Lego bricks. You can use the force to build things out of Legos, you can fly Lego spaceships, you can fight with ligtsabers/blasters, and more.

You play through the trilogies with Lego versions of the characters, finding bonuses along the way. After playing a level, you can do it again in “Free Play” mode, where you get to pick the characters you want to bring along (even from other episodes). The developers obviously wanted the game to be funny, as there are tons of hidden jokes throughout the whole game. It’s not just in-game things either, the cutscenes are even funnier. One example is the part where Luke buys R2-D2 and C3P0 from the Jawas. After the sun sets, they come back, you see silhouetted Jawas running into the building…and running back out with the droids. Luke runs into Kenobi when he goes to find them (a little different from the movie, I suppose).

The Jawas cause mischief during actual gameplay as well. When you’re in the Mos Espa Spaceport, they run off with your landspeeder if you leave it unattended (you just chase after them on foot and kick them out of it if it happens).

Lego Star Wars is a very enjoyable, long, game with plenty of replay value. The game is really funny as well. I highly recommend it, just keep an eye on the clock…or you could unknowingly spend six hours playing it.

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