LEGO Star Wars Video Game

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Posted by Hemos on Monday December 13, 2004 @03:16AM 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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Wow! by American+AC+in+Paris · 2004-12-13 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

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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So when Luke's hand is cut off... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-13 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

...can he just snap it back on again?

"Ow! That hurt!" *click* "Right!"
1. Re:So when Luke's hand is cut off... by kid-noodle · 2004-12-13 04:28 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't be silly - the lightsaber would cut the hand off at the joint. He'd need either super glue to reattatch it, or significant surgery to remove the now embedded joint so the hand could be replaced, or a whole new arm.
  </pedant mode>
  
  I don't believe I just did that..
  
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Holy Redundancy, Batman! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-13 03:20 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:I love LEGO but... by RedK · 2004-12-13 03:28 · 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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Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Re:Lego PC games by arethuza · 2004-12-13 03:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

Well, my five year old son now loves his Harry Potter Lego Creator (or whatever it is called). Someone bought it for him a while back and it was a bit too advanced, but not he is really into it.
The impressive thing about the UI design is that I've never shown him how to do anything - hows that for usability?
Message from Leia by wcitechnologies · 2004-12-13 03:51 · Score: 5, Funny

"General Kenobi, years ago you served beside my father in the Duplo Wars"

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Re:legos are one of the BEST childrens toys by Yo+Grark · 2004-12-13 04:09 · Score: 5, Funny

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!)

Yo Grark

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