Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga
Developer: Traveller's Tales
Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii
Reviewer: Eric
Last year Star Wars fans finally got to play the original
trilogy in Lego format. The game was a huge successful, the game
play was great and the added humor was a nice touch. Completing
this game was easy, you could beat this one in eight hours of
less. If you put in the extra time to collect everything that
may have added on another two or three hours. Instead of making
a few new stages as downloadable content LucasArts released the
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga. Now we get the entire Star Wars
saga, Lego style, on one disc, with a
few additions.
It’s Star Wars, all six of the movies. All your favorite
characters are in this game, from Episode 1 all the way to
Episode 6, nobody is left out in this game. Lego Star Wars:
Complete Star Wars is both the original games packed into one so
you already know what to expect. However if you never played the
first Lego Star Wars, Episodes 1 to 3, then you’ll be treated
with it in this game.
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga is a two player game, but you
don’t need a friend to enjoy it. You can switch between numerous
characters in every stage, once you complete that stage you can
go back and play it again, playing as any of the characters
you’ve unlocked. Some of the stages are pretty short; completing
one Episode doesn’t take more than two hours.
Even though the Episodes in Lego Star Wars: Complete Sage is
short there are different things you need to
collect in each
stage. Trying to collect everything in one run is impossible
since you need to unlock certain characters to go into different
areas of the stages. This gives enough replay value to players,
especially to those who might want to collect all the
achievement points. You really need to go through all the stages
this time around to earn achievement points, the last Lego Star
Wars game on the Xbox 360 had some pretty easy achievement
points.
Lego Star Wars is packed with a variety of game play. Each stage
has some minor puzzles; some may take a little bit to figure out
than others. If you aren’t running around attacking enemies you
are playing one of the many ships the Star Wars franchise has.
These stages are by far the worst I think, the controls don’t
seem to fit well and it seems impossible to dodge half the
attacks that come at you. There are not too many stages like
this, LucasArts added in some new stages and let me tell you I
was upset to see more vehicle stages. Thankfully the other
stages make up for all the vehicle stages that are in the
Complete Saga.
Another key point to this game, other than a
few new stages and
minor additions to the first saga of games, there is co op
online play. If you don’t have a friend at your house then
you’ll be able to play online. I found it rather enjoyable
playing Lego Star Wars online, true you are only playing the
game online, but there isn’t any slow points. Switching back and
fourth between the different characters can get old real fast,
now with online play things should be a lot better.
The Complete Saga has some other issues that can get
frustrating. If you let the computer control your other
characters they just may end up blocking your jumping path,
after you jump, get in our way when you attack, leading them to
hit you back (at times) and they’ll just keep falling off
certain stages without any real cause. When you die in this
game, may it be from the stupid AI, you’ll loose Lego pieces,
which are used to buy different things from the shop. It really
isn’t a big deal, but you will loose a good amount of pieces and
you only get so long to try and grab them again. Because of this
it may seem like you are spending too much time, caring about
those stupid Lego pieces.
The graphics may be simple in Lego Star Wars but the developers
were trying to say within the Lego and Star Wars universe. This
game may not look like a
big production title, but you at least
feel like you’re watching Lego’s acting like…well Lego’s. All
the cut scenes fit the Star Wars films with some added humor.
There isn’t any voice work in this game, only grunts and groans.
The music is directly from the Star Wars films, though I did
find some patches here and there when the music would stop and
star over. It almost sounded like LucasArts had to hit play
again on their boom box.
Final Verdict
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga might have not been the
best idea to make, but if you don’t own either of the last Lego
Star Wars games then you should be in good hands here. LucasArts
did add in a few new things but none of it really screams “Buy
Me Again”. If you haven’t played either of the old games then
give this a shot, the Complete Saga is a good game. Sure it has
a few problems here and there but every game has this. Look
LucasArts even added in online play in the Complete Saga. This
is a nice feature but we really didn’t need it.
Rating
8 out of 10
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga Trailer