Monday, May 09, 2005

As I've played 3 new games in the past few weeks, I thought I might post what I thought about them.

The first one is Lego Star Wars, for PC. This game is actually a lot of fun. Though it's aimed at kids (you can't die, etc...) it's actually very enjoyable. You play through Episodes I, II, and III with about 6 'missions' for each one of the films. You can play one or two player...if you're only playing one player the other character just kind of follows you around. They will battle a little but they never seem to really kill anything. The characters you're giving for the mission are appropriate to the portion of the film you're supposed to be experiencing. Episode I opens with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, for example.

At least one of the mission is a 'vehicle' type mission where you pilot a pod racer (for TPM), a Republic Gunship (for AotC), and Anakin's Jedi Starfighter (for Rots). The other missions are standard adventure/fighting missions. Your goal is to complete the stage while collecting little multi-colored LEGO studs. The more studs you get leads you to collect a certain piece of a LEGO vehicle, one per level.One neat thing about this game is that you can play each mission as either story mode (regular game) or 'freeplay' where you can choose to play as a bunch of different characters that you've unlocked throughout your playing.

There's a lot of replay value due to the secrets and mini-kits you can collect throughout each level. These will let you unlock secret characters and levels in the game.

It's a fun game. Great for kids I'd bet. Graphics are superb.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

aww dont you feel bad for that other character that just follows you around when no one is being him

Rich said...

Well, he does *try* to fight, just never seems to hit anything. In the 'story' mode you need your other characters, he's critical. For instance, a door only Artoo or Threepio can open. When that happens you can switch to them and perform whatever action it is. You can switch back and forth throughout the game as often as you want.