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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.
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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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.
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?
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...
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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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Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
The preview is actually from GameSpot and not GameStop, which happens to be a completely different gaming site.
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And what if they really were ok with this? What exactly is the problem with portraying the horrors of concentration camps? Obviously it isn't for children but it isn't like the guy has everybody singing and holding hands. Why is it that the world wants to stuff the atrocities of WW2 into the closet to be forgotten? Doesn't that go against the whole "doomed to repeat it" thing?
Tell me about it. I used to build LEGO machine guns with reloadable magazines and locks. Only problem was it didn't fire a thing. Not to mention I don't have enough black blocks, so the gun was like red and purple and gray and yellow.
What? So you are saying there are two of them now?? This movie is getting out of hand!
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.
"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."
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quotesWhen Libera requested the LEGOs from the company's Warsaw representative, he planned to create sets for a prison and a hospital, but the project evolved into a concentration camp. 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!" The sets were on display in March at the Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen.
andThe display is so unsettling in its playful simplicity that the Lego Group, which sponsors Lego art contests and donates thousands of plastic pieces to artists around the world, tried to persuade Libera to withdraw it from public view. Only when lawyers became involved did the company give up.
"It is a theme that is so sensitive to so many people in so many countries," said Peter Ambeck-Madsen, Lego's director of public relations at the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark. "If we had known before what he was going to do, we never would have given him the bricks. But we talked about it and decided [that] to make a big thing about it now would only draw more attention."
andHe acknowledges that Lego officials were left in the dark about his intentions, but he said company representatives in Poland rebuffed his early efforts to let them review sketches of his ideas. In a bid to avoid any possible legal entanglements, Libera said, he has sold the seven-piece concentration camp set--plus two copies of the works--to the Galleri Faurschou and an agent in Chicago for about $7,500 each.
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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.
Dude!
You didn't use your imagination enough.
My guns fired real blocks.
Nothing but adding a rubber band on an inverted barrell of blocks (smooth sides all around). Had great accuracy too! Though the 1x2 blocks always made better bullets thann the longer 1x8 blocks. (learned aerodynamics early on! Hey, I just figured out why I don't have very many 1x2's anymore!)
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>not the ones with the detailed plans but the random parts
In general I agree with you, but I have seen my son use the kits to great results. Yes, he does initially build straight from the plans and plays with them and gets bored. Later he comes back and takes it all apart and builds his own creation.
He is a lot like me -- starting at a pile of random bricks kind of stumps him, but if he has a starting point, he can use that as a guide/inspiration to let his own creativity take off. He will spend days tweaking and enhancing one of his creations (coming to show me every so often what he has added/changed).
I kind of am the same way with coding/learning new IT tools. Presented with some manuals and an empty editor screen, I don't know where to start. Give me a hands-on tutorial where I can get something started, and then I can pull it apart and use it as a basis to create something else.
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Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
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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 make an excellent point that I didn't even think of. We love to glorify pirates and knights in games and movies but the truth about them is often much harsher than what we portray. Does anybody really believe that all knights were chivalrous dogooders riding from town to town saving damsels in distress? It is all a matter of how far separated you are from the event and who is telling the history.
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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You can say that because your bedroom didn't have orange shag carpeting in it.
I went nearly blind as a kid from searching for parts.
(I swear, it was from the legos...)
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