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.

legos are one of the BEST childrens toys

[hsmith]

they foster so much creativity. not the ones with the detailed plans but the random parts you construct monsterous cities out of.

by far one of the best toys to come out. the lego stores they have now would have made my parents go broke :o

Two Great Tastes

[RazzleFrog]

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.

Re:I love LEGO but...

[RazzleFrog]

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?

Re:Sweet!

[XxtraLarGe]

What about SW Starfighter, SW Jedi Starfighter, SW Racer Revenge or SW Battlefront? Those were all pretty good.

stick to the bricks god damn it...

[sbeam.dk]

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!

Re:legos are one of the BEST childrens toys

[Fishstick]

>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.

don't you guys remember anything?

[museumpeace]

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!

Re:legos are one of the BEST childrens toys

[tgd]

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...)

*ahem*