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LEGO Star Wars Video Game
_xeno_ writes "LEGO, everyone's favorite plastic building block company, is creating a Star Wars video game. Yes, that's right. A video game based on the LEGO Star Wars sets, which are of course based on Star Wars. GameSpot has a preview of the game. It covers the three prequel movies, allowing you to play through levels containing LEGO friends and allies. At first you can only play with characters appropriate for the level, but you can unlock other characters to swap in as you play through the game. Because the world is based on LEGO blocks, there are puzzles that involve the creation of LEGO structures to bridge gaps. It's scheduled for an April release, just before "Revenge of the Sith" opens." I guess this would be an...ahem...puzzle game.
with the movie. Its going to be very blocky.
The screencaps are pretty impressive--the in-game characters look every bit as emotive and engaging as the actors in the movies!
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I recently saw this and decided to quit buying their toys. Maybe I'm overreacting but I don't want my kids to be raised with things like this or this (and if you think those are fake, I ask you to look again at the site.)
they foster so much creativity. not the ones with the detailed plans but the random parts you construct monsterous cities out of.
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by far one of the best toys to come out. the lego stores they have now would have made my parents go broke
its the Barbie Half-Life2 edition..?
LEGO, everyone's favorite plastic building block company, is creating a Star Wars video game. Yes, that's right. A video game based on the LEGO Star Wars sets, which are of course based on Star Wars.
Thanks for that concise summary. I was having trouble trying to figure out what this Star Wars LEGO video game was based on.
Can I make Han to shoot Greebo first?
Can I remove my head and put it on the bottom of my foot and hop around like that?
You know, they have made a couple of these before and they don't turn out well. I remember a lego game based on Harry Potter a couple years ago.
It just dosen't translate well. It's really difficult to work with 3-D shapes on a 2-D computer screen.
Of course, I'm sure that some of the engineers and CAD users out there won't have much problem, but kids don't seem to grasp the idea to well. At least my nephews didn't.
Didn't Lego make an announcement about a year ago saying that they weren't going to license movies anymore?
What do you have to do to get Luke's to light up, hmm?
Okay, unless I'm mistaken, there's no KOTOR for PS2...
So, provided this isn't a shitty game, your telling me that the only non-shitty game for the PS2 is going to be a SW game that's totally based on using Lego models.
The utter wierdness and coolness of this hasn't even begun to set in...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
The thing with both Lego games and Star Wars games is that they have been hit or miss (mostly miss). I wondering if combining the two very popular pastimes will magnify the effect making either a really great or really awful game. The preview says it looks good but I never trust that. The proof is in the final pudding.
Or is that a viscous circle? My brain! So, a toy company is promoting a game based on a toy based on movies which were designed to promote toys and games. Wow. I bow to their capitalistic genius. Seriously.
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The preview is actually from GameSpot and not GameStop, which happens to be a completely different gaming site.
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Back when LEGO was just LEGO, and didn't license any stupid shit from anyone.
Hell, I'm 31 and once in a while I still pull out my old LEGO and build stuff once in a while when I need to decompress.
Prove it.
Finally, someone's making a franchise game based on a movie AND a toy at the SAME TIME! I think we all know this is going to turn out fantastic! *rolls eyes*
I seem to remember seeing a homemade leg-built trailer for Revenge of the Sith (Rise of the Empire) a year or two ago (I'm sure someone has a link to it). Some guy actually went through the trouble of building and animating (using the same animation style as the old school claymation movies) it all by himself. I wonder how many Lucasarts and Lego execs saw this before they jumped on the idea of turning it into a game themselves.
Count how many Star Wars games you have and ask yourself if you really need another one. The story is old and the characters are dated. Even old man Lucas is giving up on the franchise with the final POS movie.
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Mr. Lucas, did you write that big check to slash dot yet for all of your free plugs?
Or are you too busy reshooting all of your old movies?
Why don't you make a new movie that is actually worth watching?
Or have you been replaced by an android?
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I didn't know that funcoland actually did game previews. Maybe the poster meant Gamespot. Of course, that is what editors are for..
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Well, now we know why Lucas Arts didn't have the confidence to produce the new Sam and Max.
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I can't wait to play that Hoth sequence one more time or buy those re-re-re-mixed-mastered H -DVDs in sexology format.
I see the advance listed. Is it possible they would release something to the other major platforms and the advance, but not the cube?
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They need to make a film of the game.
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Anyone else think of the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland when they read this /. story?
Here in denmark there has been a lot of media rush about bad times for lego lately. IMHO they should stop making all those weird spinoff products like harry potter lego, starwars, etc. They must pay a fortune for all those royalties!? and a video game with starwars!?! this is way out of proportions! But maybe it's just me being old fashioned :p
start making some mindstorms again, that would get me back as a customer!
It's LEGO bricks not "legos".
Bah!
And no, this isn't some foreign language affectation - I'm speaking as one from a country where we actually speak English (note the lack of adjective before "English").
Does it show that this annoys me, just a tad? Honestly... "Legos"?
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I agree, the special pieces have been crap. But, Lego says they are going back to to the basics.
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what happened to this theory?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/1255 215&tid=159
" Kristiansen goes on to blame the company's financial woes on its attempt to follow trends rather than focusing on its more traditional products. In turn, the company's plan for 2004 will include a renewed marketing push for Lego bricks as opposed to licensed products like the Harry Potter and Star Wars lines.
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You will be derided for creating a 'Concentration Camp' LEGO set, but will likely be loved and adored for creating a 'The Passion of the Christ' LEGO set with switchable Jesus parts depicting various states of being tortured.
It's not 'Think of the Children' at all. Most of those people that are yapping about 'Thinking about the Children' are only yapping about what they are told to yap about.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
We went through a lot of the same comments a month or two ago for an Ask Slashdot about best construction toys. the lameness of Lego [and the lameness of their cash flow] when they branched out from providing blocks [and letting us provide the imagination] and tried to "go hollywood" with movie tie-ins was a general theme of the commenting.
For my money [and I have the boxes of "Technics" to prove my checks go where my chat does] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
I for one do not welcome our new Star Wares overloads!
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They'll actually end up putting out a really low-res POS game instead, and claim that the "big blocks" on the screen are "LEGO's" and not just game pixels.
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..to the submitter for not writing "Legos ".
It really annoys me when people do that.
Just think of how much more efficient it will be converted into MPEG since the source material will already be in nice wee blocks of a discrete colour already.
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My three favorite things growing up Lego, Star Wars, and Video Games - all rolled into one! Of course, that was before Lucas killed Star Wars, Lego started selling model kits in preference to the basic buckets of blocks, and video games got some complicated that I stopped playing.
And have to put up with n00bs who camp the new dresses or the 20% off sale? No thanks!
Bloody campers.
For my money [...] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
Maybe the problem is their stuff is built to last.
Parents give their old sets to their kids (and buy them some new ones, of course, but only a few). After some generations, families are saturated with the 'classic' LEGO stuff. Maybe they make all these theme packs, games etc to revive interest in an otherwise saturated market.
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...give the developers a lego kit. They seem to have failed to grasp the basic mechanics of "Lego legs". They do NOT allow for any sort of twisting motion whatsoever. Furthermore, their feet are not flexible since they are made of hard plastic. What is the point in making a "Lego game" if you don't follow the rules of Lego? http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/legostarwars/sc reens_6114511.html?page=2
what ever else you have to say about Starwars, it's not a marketing vehicle.
Proof #1: When the first movie hit they gave out cardboard 'early bird' action figure stands because the real figures weren't ready. The real figures weren't ready because nobody had really planned/intended merchandise.
Proof #2: All of Ep2. What marketing department in it's right mind would let that slip. Ignoring the quality of the movie (which is subjective), you can't ignore one simple fact: It wasn't a children's movie! That's fine, but EPI _was_. I don't give a rat's behind about Lucas' vision at that point, I just know he wasn't a very good director anymore. He can't even keep the tone of an immediate sequal simular. Everything else I could forgive (even Natile Portman's soul searingly bad acting), but not this.
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Where the walls are covered with tubs of the rectangular blocks in different colors and sizes. You can buy just a few at a time, too.
When I was a kid, I would have loved to have this - I was always frustrated when I'd created something really cool that had one or two blocks of the "wrong" color... like a grey battleship that wound up with three red blocks in the hull because I ran out of blue 1x8 blocks. If I could have gone to the Lego store and bought just those three blocks, I would have spent a lot of my allowance on Legos.
Having the ability to just grab a couple handfuls of the rectangular blocks is pretty cool. Maybe it will help?
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Anyhoo, again, Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project":
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products ... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid .... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em ... I never could get any of them to work tho ... lol Much less able to blow up a planet ... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this ... LOL
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"you'll get to compete for Lego studs"
Excellent... so then there'll be plenty of this then? And hanging around in bars?
Ooooh, you mean that type of stud...
My mistake.
I can't believe how every time a Lego story is on /. the same old thing is said about Lego not sticking to their core product.
Firstly, if you just want to buy blocks, Lego has a whole range that cater for this. It's called the Creator range. I just bought a tub of 2000 pieces recently. Lego also has bulk brick options available from their online stores.
If you just like using straight Lego blocks, check out some of the Lego sculptures such as the Statue of Liberty.
I imagine that long ago Lego realised that they needed to expand their range or fail. Lego has released some wonderful new themed products. These themed products do introduce some more chunky components, but most of these sets still use basic parts that have been around for decades.
As a Mindstorms and Technic afficionado, I welcome the introduction of these new parts and themes. For example the Bionicle arms and legs aren't my favourite parts, but they can still be used for all sorts of robotics applications. I've seen the cannon that the Lego Stormtrooper has being mounted in a Gatling style, video camera tracking system to build a surface to air missile system.
If I were to criticise Lego for anything it would be for dropping the ball a little with the Mindstorms range. This line has so much potential (new sensors, bluetooth video, an RCX with newer firmware and more inputs and outputs are just some ideas I have). The ultimate Builders set was an example of expanding Mindstorms - it includes a Lego plotter that lowers and raises the plotter pen using a compressor and pneumatics!
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