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LEGO Star Wars Video Game

Posted by Hemos on from the how-will-this-works dept.

_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.

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  1. Re:I love LEGO but... by RedK · · Score: 5, Informative
    Of course, if you'd bother to read the site you linked to, you would know these are not Official LEGO Sets that were actually sold in stores, but mainly an artist's design that was made in VERY limited quantity. And they now reside in a museam. They even have a quote from the LEGO group :
    According to a press release issued by the LEGO Group, "If the had described his ultimate project to us in advance, he naturally would not have received a single LEGO element from us!"
    So yes, you are completely overreacting. Buying LEGO knights and Star Wars set won't expose your children to this kind of material.
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  2. Credit where credit is due... by GillBates0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    GameStop has a preview of the game.

    The preview is actually from GameSpot and not GameStop, which happens to be a completely different gaming site.

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  3. More copied ideas by Jakhel · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:I love LEGO but... by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Libera maintains that donated supplies amount to sponsorship, but the company says it never gave him the authority to use its name or logo as an implied endorsement. Ambeck-Madsen, the Lego executive, said the faux packaging is so realistic that a Jewish organization in Sweden threatened to organize a boycott of Lego because offended members believed the company had manufactured the boxes."

  5. Re:I love LEGO but... by jacksonj04 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sadly it's failing.

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  6. Re:Lego PC games by jackbird · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out the lego Junkbot shockwave games on lego.com. While arguably 2D, the gameplay, which revolves around building lego structures to get a dumb avatar to a goal (a la Lemmings), is fantastic.

  7. extreme pedant mode by Nf1nk · · Score: 2, Informative


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