From the land of DHP

[Necrosis]

You all need to buy LEGO Star Wars: The Game.

RIGHT NOW.

Its such awesome fun. Its like Jedi Power Battles only you dont get annoyed with it after 10 minutes.

I'm having a real blast, and its the sort of game you can let the kids on too. You have a pickup/dropout 2nd player for all out rucking, and you can unlock pretty much everything you've seen in the films, from Lego Droidekas to Lego Darth Vader, to Lego Yoda.


And yes, Lego Yoda does all that wacky spinning stuff from Clones. Seriously worth every penny and DEFINITELY worth a rental for the curious. Its got me hooked bad.

Cue flames, comments, and the inevitable pic of DHP's legotank and/or other people's lego.

[Malevolent]

I would hope kids could play it. It is Lego after all. Do they have any demos for it?

[Diablus]

Imagine if it had extreme gore and was rated M for Mature or +17  

I tell you those Lego games can get violent

[Necrosis]

There's a demo floating about for the PC, iirc.

Also possibly a PS2 demo on the cover of a magazine.


Me, I just bought the game outright. I mean seriously, its just good fun. The manual is written for kids AND adults, from the point of view that its the KIDS who are letting the adults play, haha.

There's all sorts of neat touches too - one of the C3PO droids can have both arms and a leg sliced off. Grievous personal guard can be beheaded. You can kill Jar Jar and the larval form of Darth Vader. Killed enemies explode into their components. Also, you cant actually die, you explode but then just respawn.

There's not too much of a jump puzzle element - only if you want to find all the secret areas, but all the secrets can be unlocked by code if you're bored anyhow. I compared it to Jedi Power Battles.. for those of you who have played both console versions, it plays more like the Dreamcast version - no real jump puzzles, good level layout, camera not so annoying.

There are no voices, it mostly goes by expressions, and pretty much every single thing in the game is made up of Lego parts, from the starfighters to the big capital ships.



On an unrelated note, picked up Predator Concrete Jungle today... evil evil fun.

[Malevolent]

Do they actually have Grievous in the game? I can't image what he would look like as a Lego guy.

[A Boojum Snark]

*scans lego catalog for male*

[Bryan]

I thout the camra angle in the demo was kinda bad, but maybe i'll give it a shot. It would be nice to have a game i could play at work.

Bryan

[Necrosis]

Lego Grievous looks just like that pic, only ingame he has proper eyes.

I've unlocked all the characters, and the bonus level. It wasnt hard. There's not as much replayability as there is in Power Battles (no Kaado racing or Arena matches) but its one of those games you can stick on for a few minutes to relax.

Having completed it, I loved it, and I'll likely inflict it on any cousins/nephews/neices I happen to see.

[Malevolent]

That is a pretty sweet Lego. I think I'll download the demo tonight.

[bacon_flaps]

I'd have to buy a gamepad, cause the controls in the demo suck ass.  You can't bind anything to the mouse.

[Necrosis]

Its a console sort of game, so a joypad is pretty much a given. I'd hate to try to play platformers with a mouse.

[Dirty Harry Potter]

Beyond Good and Evil had excellent keyboard/mouse control for the PC.

[Necrosis]

I'd call that an exception rather than the rule. Then again, my experience is mostly coming from running emulated games or PC knockoffs of other titles, so not exactly "top of the range" 3d platforming, haha.

[bacon_flaps]

Mouse and keyboard would be fine for it, it'd be like Alien Swarm.
Mouse to look around and attack, keyboard for movement.