Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
by LucasArts Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Customer Review: My son loves the game; needs a save option
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my 9-year-old's first real video game, and he absolutely loves it. The only downside is that there is no way to save your current position; you can only save the latest level.Customer Review: Great game overall, but a complaint about game saving
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is great fun for kids as well as adults. The gameplay consists of shoot-em-up for points, puzzles to solve, and some coordination stunts like driving a hovercraft across a straight line of lights. There are a large number of chapters including all the major scenes from Star Wars 4, 5 & 6. The transition videos it plays between each episode are really funny - for example when Leia records the message to put in R2D2 she can't figure out how to put it inside him, so she opens up his top like a garbage can and throws it in !
After chapters are complete, you can go back as other star wars characters in free play mode and open up hidden rooms. There are special legos to collect over time which open up additional secrets. Also you can customize characters and put different heads on different bodies - very funny.
The game play in many ways is best with 2 players, some of the scenes you really want someone shooting while you solve the puzzle, or it gets a bit frustrating to keep getting shot. But you can die as many times as necessary without losing ground in the story - only money/points. And there is no blood, just lego pieces flying about :)
I picked up 2 Xbox 360 controllers and plugged them into my PC (yes you can do this) and they worked really well - much easier to control than the keyboard, especially with 2 player mode.
The only negatives I would mention are that you cannot save progress in the middle of a chapter. If you only have a limited amount of time, you will have to start the chapter over if you stop playing - some of the chapters can take 30-45 minutes to complete especially the first time through.
Secondly, the game has fairly high end video card requirements (pixel shading & vertex shading). The discount GeForce card I got just 1 year ago was insufficient, and I had to buy a new card before I can play this game on my XP machine. It does work just fine with Windows Vista.
Customer Review: An overall fun game
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this game to spend time with my 5 year old son. I'm 40 years old and was an arcade expert back in the 80's, but this is my first game that I've ever bought for my computer. The animation on this is great and it's fun because you never permanently die, just temporarily blow up only to come alive again in a second or two. Although you constently kill people and blow up things, there is no blood or gore which is good for my child. There are many stages to the game and it takes some practice to get the hang of things. It does get frustrating and I have used "help" found on-line to get through some stages. There are many extra things in this game that you can do and I can tell right now that I may get to the end, but I'll certainly never experience the complete game. I did buy a gamepad controller because the keyboard controls were a pain, especially for my son. I like this game and my son loves it. It was a good purchase for our entry into computer gaming. Customer Review: Your kids will like this, if you can get it to run.
Summary: 2 Stars
My son played the PC demos of this game with no problem, so I purchased this game new and gave it to him for his birthday. He was excited, but that turned to disappointment when the game didn't install because of a corrupt data file. It said:
LEGOS STAR WARS II ERROR
Error 1330.A A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file E:\ Default~1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. Error 3 was returned by WinVerifyTrust.
So the CD is corrupt from the factory!! Somehow I found the troubshooting file on the CD. It said to go to their support web site. To get support you will need to send them a Dxdiag file from your computer, download and install Flash player, download and install Mozilla Firefox. Now open your new web brouser and type in their support website to get help. It tells you to insert the CD and open their patch. Lo and behold, the first thing the patch does it to repair the corrupt cabinet file. So why does a big company release a CD that never should have left Quality Control. I emailed them and am still waiting for an answer. So unless you are prepared to do some major troubleshooting, buy your child something else. (All three SW games that I tried had a host of bugs and needed patches-buyer beware. I won't be buying the first Legos edition, since I hear it has even more bugs).
Customer Review: Starwars Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is fun. I'm not a kid but love to play computer games. I just love how it follows the original movies. Its just something to have fun with.