Good: Slick visuals.

Good: Slick visuals, pleasantry two-player mode

Bad: Screwy camera, evens that suck with two players

Least-Shocking Spoiler: Lego Anakin becomes Lego Vader!

CRISPIN: You don’t have to wait until May to achieve Episode III spoilers from a videogame. You’ll find a not many minor ones right here in this cutesy action title starring Denmark’s chiefly overpriced toys. Lego Star Wars re-creates—in Lego form—the laser-blasting, Force-wielding, saber-dueling exhibitions from Episodes I, II, and the upcoming III. The action is simple and pleasantry a mix of shooting and platform hopping with near arcade-style challenges tossed in. Better still, another player can join in at any time to take restrain of a second character—a merriment option occasionally hampered by a screwy camera and vehicle stages clearly designed for solo play.

Just don’t look forward to much of a challenge—or a prolonged game. Lego Star Wars is a breezy experience made for kids (its manual plane has a “Help for Parents” section). In fact, children of the collect-’em-all Pok?mon generation will probably finish the most out of it, since replay value here relies forward revisiting levels to gather hidden Lego pieces. Amassing as it is items lets you buy novel characters and other extras. Persistent players will equal unlock a cool slice of Star Wars from a lengthy time ago, back when it was good

DEMIAN: Finally, more [i]or[/i] less blatant product placement I can really earn behind. LSW may be a simple action-platformer with a crappy camera you’ll cursebut Lego Jar Jar! Lego Samuel L Jackson and Darth Maul! For me at least, this is individual of those rare times when quiet characters and visuals can make up for sometimes-flawed gameplay.

The game’s short amplification infinite continues, and co-op variety (although a couple of sections, particularly the pod-racing bit and a Zaxxon-like stage, are actively harder with sum of two units players) make it an admirable rental for older folks, while kids will be happy to replay the flats to death and track down each last secret.

OFFICIAL PS MAG—SCOOTER: Lego Star Wars axes all the stupid parts from the novel movies (and lo, they were many) and leaves sole the cool bits. Take the fact that the third flat (out of six) of Episode II is the Jedi brawl near the cessation as proof. Tragically, this awesome editing do job-work means you can warp end the abridged events of the first three movies in four hours. Yeah, yeah—you can replay evens to earn new characters, slys and loot, but you can still crank from one side it the first time in single long sitting. That said, the ability to play as Lego Darth Maul, Boba Fett and Darth Vader in a better-paced version of the prequel is convenient enough for me. This is the best Star Wars game for kids ever

Publisher: Giant/Eidos

Developer: Traveller’s Tales

Players: 1-2

ESRB: Everyone

www.eidosinteractive.com

The verdicts (out of 10)

Crispin 70

Demian 70

Scooter 75

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