Tuesday, December 14, 2004

The BEST Star Wars game EVER... maybe...

Now, I'm not a big video game player--of course, the only reason for this is the fact that I have very little time to play video games. I do own a short stack of game consoles and an equally short stack of video games for them my PC and my Mac. I'm one of those guys that finds a video game he likes and that's that. I play the crap out of that one game. That said, I like games I CAN ACTUALLY BEAT. So, I'm a big fan of cheat codes. That said, when a game comes along where I don't need cheat codes in order for you to enjoy it, I pay attention. Mind you, I haven't played this game yet (duh) but I'm pretty psyched to. Check out these great screenshots from the new Star Wars video game coming out in spring from Eidos:





Yep, it's called Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and it allows you to play your favorite scenes from the prequel trilogy (unfortunately) as Lego mini-figures. Here's a clip from a review of this game at GameSpot.com:
Lego Star Wars really has a great look that's consistent with both the Star Wars movies and the Lego milieu. The characters look just like those ubiquitous little Lego people that you've no doubt seen here and there (they're impossible to avoid, since the Lego company has sold around 3 billion of them), with blocky legs and feet and amusingly blank expressions on their faces. All the level backgrounds have a clean, sparsely detailed look to them that's reminiscent of the Lego Star Wars toys that have been released (and in fact, many of the vehicles in the game are taken straight from that line). The real star of the visuals, though, is the animation, which brings the characters to life in a hilarious manner during cutscenes and actual gameplay. The game features no dialogue, so all the communication will take place through the wildly overdone character animation, goofy facial expressions, and so on. It will have plenty of music from the movies, though, not to mention authentic sound work done by the wizards at Skywalker Sound.
While they do admit that it's a light and frothy game aimed at kids, I say SO WHAT?? This reminds me of what games are supposed to be like: FUN.

1 comment:

  1. its a very good game byt not chalaging like if you get killed you come bak to life just like that well at least a good fun game but too simple so 7/10

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