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RELATED: LEGO 2K Drive Is An Open World Racing Adventure That's Coming Surprisingly Soon Case in point: using Jedi to fully possess enemies. Including DLCs there are 380 characters, each of them offering a means to circumvent specific environmental obstacles, decipher new quests or just fold in a cool combat skill. Though it has to be said that the latter frequently reduces you to squinting through an X-rayed version of your avatar to get a good shot off.Īs you’d expect, your fisticuff capabilities are determined by the unique class-type of your current minifig-Jedi, Hero, Scavenger, Scoundrel, Bounty Hunter, Villain, Dark Side, Astromech, Protocol or ‘Extra’. Gunplay includes a cover system, body part damage, gun crate “trade-up” weaponry, and a third-person cam that requires some recoil control. There’s now a four-button combo system that thwarts button mashers while monetarily rewarding speed, consistency and timely counter presses. On a more positive note, there are the many enhancements I alluded to earlier. Mind you, when you consider we got a 6-hour story from a single film, LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens, Skywalker Saga feels like it’s paced like a pod race. That runtime is roughly in line with the prequel and OG LEGO Star Wars titles which spun their respective trilogies out into four hour campaigns each. If you stick to the breadcrumbed objectives markers and ignore the many, many opportunities to go off track, you can clock a single movie in roughly an hour and a bit. Understanding that everybody Stans a particular trilogy, TT has wisely opted to let you kick off at the three generational entry points of Phantom Menace, A New Hope or The Force Awakens. However, with two people, you can have these emergent, low-stakes frenemy fights along the way. (Online would have been nice, but it’s somehow gotten the saber chop.) Play this (Han) solo or with “another” as a Force-dyad, and the experience will be relatively the same: slapstick melee/pew-pew combat, mass destruction of property, some class-specific puzzling and simplified jumpy-jump platforming. If you’ve somehow never played one of TT Games’ titles, you should know that they’re best consumed in 2P split-screen co-op. Honestly, what’s here makes the 2000s games look like LEGO DUPLO Star Wars. They’ve even bolted on a universe scale sandbox-24 planets with three or so settlement areas apiece, orbit arenas encircling each world, and an absolute bantha load of collectables. ![]() Lastly, when we talk of mechanical upgrades, what’s been done isn’t the equivalent C3PO getting a red arm after ten years-somebody has taken a serious hydrospanner to the combat and class systems. They nail the little inflections your brain expects when hearing those classic movie lines for the umpteenth time. With a few exceptions, the soundalike actors they went with are excellent. And though you’ll spot a tiny handful of similar gameplay sections and reused cutscene gags, this is very much a page one rewrite of the greatest Star Wars piss-take this side of Spaceballs.įor seconds, you’re getting full VO this time around (calm down, there’s a mumble mode for you purists). Obviously, that game only covered six films as opposed to the full complement of nine movies here. For starters, it’s not simply an up-rezzed, level-for-level remake of 2007’s LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga. It’s important to manage expectations on Skywalker Saga from the get go, however. You can imagine our surprise, then, when we played a fully armed and operational reimagining that represents a Force-jump in evolution for this franchise. So yeah, we’re a triumvirate of veterans who really wanted LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga to be a new hope, not another half-baked clone. By the time anybody caught on, it was way too late. And when it comes to Star Wars, well, they were sired by a Sith who covertly manipulated events to get them named after his favourite Force users. My two sons, Luke and Ben, are budding master builders of actual physical bricks and TT Games’ full catalog. Bigger than a UCS Millennium Falcon #75192. In my household, the expectations for this LEGO game have been built up.
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