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Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy Review (continued)
More User Submitted Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy Reviews
Date: 2007-06-13
Better than the first!
This game is so fun! You get to play lots of characters. It is pretty fun. Only that I haven't gone so far. Free play is not available. But overall, it's fun. I like this game! Come and check it out!
Date: 2007-05-30
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GameCube)
It is a great game for all ages. Some of the family have different systems but we all share how to do the levels. Even the three to thirty year old children enjoy playing this game. I have trouble playing but the small ones help me get things done. You can play together or drop out if you need to. I would buy it again.
Date: 2007-05-23
A bit better than Lego Star Wars I
Lego Star Wars II is a bit better than Lego Star Wars I.
Each level comes with a few more challenges (such as collecting enough "studs" to achieve "True Jedi Status" in both the story mode and the free play mode). I play this game with my 7 year old son and he loves it. The game play is easy enough for him to do alone, but the levels are long enough and complex enough that he ususally needs my "help" to find his way through to the end of the level.
We have played the "story" part of the game for the Episode IV and half of Episode V so far. We have also played half of those levels in "freeplay" mode. We have not fully completed any level yet (we don't have a dark force user yet to access certain areas).
Cool things they have added compared to Lego Star Wars I:
- You get to drive vehicles (Speeders, AT-STs, etc) and ride animals during the levels as you are walking around.
- Characters punch instead of shooting when you are at close range to your enemies (this is tricky at first, but when you get used to it, it is a cool feature)
- You get to build things out of piles of legos
- There are bonus areas that are only accessable to certain types of characters (Bounty Hunters, Storm Troopers, etc) that make it more fun when you are in free play mode.
- Han Solo's character was really well done; he shoots sideways as he runs forward which makes getting through some areas a lot easier
Some things that I don't like (or haven't gotten used to yet):
- You can shoot/punch your partner by accident if you are standing too close together as you try to shoot the bad guys
- There is no clear "path" toward the finish on some levels which means you spend a lot of time "lost" trying to sort out what you should be doing
- There seems to be a bit more violence in this game that the first game (more smoke when you blow things up, Chewy will rip the arms off of bad guys when fighting hand to hand, etc.) One of the nice aspects to the first game was that although it was a shooting game, because it was legos, the bad guys would just fall to pieces and so it did not seem so violent. This game has gone a bit in the wrong direction in the violence department as far as I am concerned (but my son doesn't seem to care).
Basically, this game is more fun and should be more interesting for a longer time than the first game (we completely finished the first game in 3 months). It seems to be geared to a slightly older audience than the first game (more difficult "puzzle solving", more violence). But it is still easy enough for younger children. This game will require more parental involvement for really young players like my son, but it still a good game for the young ones.
Date: 2007-05-14
The novelty might be lost, but the game is still great
Since the first Lego Star Wars was first released, fans obviously were waitng for a sequel based on the original trilogy. Well, they got EXACTLY what they asked for in this game. The formula is left untouched (now huge technical leaps and bounds in this game), and now, everything is based on Episodes IV, V, and VI. Whether you like this game or not, will depend how much you liked the first Lego Star Wars and of course, it helps if you are a Star Wars fan.
Date: 2007-05-08
fantastic
This is what my 7 year old has to say about this game ...."I love it when I am Greedo". He's addicted to this game as is my 5 year old son. It's not easy but it keeps them occupied and challenged.
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