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Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best! It has more playing time than Mario Olympics and Crash of the Titans combined (both games received at Christmas). My 8 year old and 5 year old are playing this as much as possible, and what's great is my 8 year old hasn't beat it yet! Great that the second player (my 5 year old) can come and go in the game play without any hassles! All the lego figures and things are really cool to watch too. Definitely a close second to Guitar Hero III in my house, great game! Finally the Wii is getting a lot of use!

Lego Star Wars junkie!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my daughter for Christmas.

She asked for help playing it, so we setup two player mode. Next thing I know, I am playing with friends after she has gone to bed, we finished the game, and are now trying to get every possible character, ship, and extra we can find. This game is just fun. You cant really die, you just blow up, and it stays pretty well on the Star Wars storyline from beginning to end. This is my favorite Wii game so far!

Swing that lightsaber!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am at best a casual gamer... I am 47, work 45-50 hours a week and have been totally absorbed by this game! I have found it to be engrossing to the point of forgetting to blink, but easy enough to master that I can understand the objectives and figure out *most* of the puzzles. (I admit, a few times I forgot R2D2 can fly.) I've had it since before Christmas and still find myself making time at the end of a long day to lose myself for a few hours. It's fun to play with a friend and even the uninitiated can pick up the basics quickly.
I am just now getting to all the free play and am looking forward to discovering more secrets, building with kits and figuring out how to better fly in the really interesting, but rather frustrating air & space environments.

The Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Dude. Star Wars. Legos. I don't care which you like, or even if you don't like either, but put em together, and this is a MUST BUY. Seriously. Even if you just play for the slap stick comedy and amusing storyline based on the movies.... or if you're just an avid star wars fan. It's easy to play. And yet is still fun for people that like a challenge in their gaming. Buy it. Now. Go. You know you want to.

Too addictive for little ones

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was unsure about this one til i got it for my 6 and 8 year old boys.
They totally love it, and i can see why.
I personally like the game because it sets alot of different puzzles that their young minds can solve, and they have to work as a team to do so.
So, i see it as educational in the puzzle solving team play.

One Of The Greatest Of All Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Lego Star Wars was introduced a few years ago as a kid's game (12 and under). I discovered it through my friend's son, who was a 5 year-old Star Wars fan. At one point, he needed help with an area and asked me to guide him. So I took the controller and tried my best. After about a half hour, he asked if he could play again, but I told him that I was still "trying to figure out how to play this game." (In actuality, it was an instant addiction.)

What I learned about Lego Star Wars is that the two-player function is awesome, but only if you are already friends with your counterpart and/or they are a skilled gamer. If not, you will find yourself directing their every action (to help move the game along), and they might take exception to that.

Anyway, if I may now review this particular rendition, Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga...

The game is awesome. I put it on par with the classics (Legend of Zelda, the Super Mario games, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc.). That may sound like hyperbole, but let me assure you that Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga is the real deal. The fact that the current generation game consoles enable new features (like Wii's remote control of the light sabers, guns, and Force) only bring this game from cult classic (kid's and diehard Star Wars fan's game) to popular classic (that everyone loves).

Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga will take you approximately 40-50 hours to complete. (That is, to get 100% completion of the game.) And it won't be 40-50 hours that you regret; even if you take a break from the game and come back to it in, say, 6 months, you will gladly find yourself playing the next 40 to 50 hours that you allot. (And I recommend coming back to it after a while - that way you don't always remember where everything is in the game, thus maintaining some challenge. Also, like that cool song on your new CD - don't play it out too fast, even if it is the best song ever!)

Star Wars fans probably found this game first, but it was the Lego concept that makes this a classic game. I grew up with Legos, and Star Wars was pretty scary to me when it first came out. Combining the two did what one expected: offered a fantastic venue for humor.

As you play along to the Star Wars theme and plots, the Lego style adds some of the funniest things you will have seen in a video game. I laughed out loud at some of the mini-movies in between the chapter stories. Also, the way that characters die... their Lego bodies fall apart! This really keeps the game tame for the younger set, but for us adults, it just adds that wonderful, simple, comic humor that we can appreciate.

The Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga version is an addition to the Lego Star Wars series. In the beginning, they released Chapters 1-3 to coincide with the Chapter 3 movie release (marketing). LucasArts was already releasing their "grown-up" versions of a Star Wars game at the same time, so Lego Star Wars was decidedly their kid's version.

A strong market was found, however, among a wide range of ages, so the developers released Chapters 4-6 with more featuers so as to close out their video game series, and thus the Star Wars saga. Or did they...?

The Complete Saga obviously combines the two previous versions, but also adds content. For example, new characters become available, as well as new levels, quests, and features. On the topic of the latter, the first version of Lego Star Wars (Chapters 1-3) had a relatively limited stud-collection/quest system. In the Complete Saga, these chapters are fleshed out (as in the later version - Chapters 4-6), and many more sequences are provided.

In all, if you want a game for yourself and/or a game for your kids, Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga is where it's at! It is easy enough to simply pick up and play, with really only 4 or 5 buttons to use (4 buttons if you only play the Story Mode). But if you are interested in taking the game beyond the Story Mode, you will find yourself having to manage your characters to know which situations call for which abilities (in the Free Play Mode). This means that the game reaches out to the kids and to the kids within us!

In my experience, the younger kids (ages 12 and under) will likely only appreciate the Star Wars concepts and gameplay. Also, that sense of accomplishment as they complete the Story Mode (where they kind of know what to expect, thus keeping them thinking along). If your kid does not like Star Wars, the Legos concept will probably not redeem the value for them.

For the older kids (ages 13 to 70), the Story Mode is way cool, but the Free Play is where we get to use our management skills! What awed me the most were the great and true renditions of the environments that were present in the movies. I always wanted to go to Endor, for example (not Northern California, by the way, but the make-believe location). Now, in this video game, I can guide characters in a wider use of the Endor location - not just the parts that were featured in the movie.

And that is just one example... The Complete Saga has more levels in it, such as the sequence where Anakin and Obi Wan are onboard General Grievous' ship. (And the deleted scene from the movie where Shak Ti is killed by General Grievous.) And there are still others...

If you even WANT this experience to last only 40-50 hours, then I think you have rushed it, my friend! I highly recommend taking your time (when you are not up against the clock) to really explore all that is in this game, the Complete Saga. It goes so far above and beyond what we saw in the original two releases, and the game itself, as I stated at the beginning, is a true classic video game. The Complete Saga is the seminal classic incorporating the two prior versions and expanding upon them. (You may want to get one copy and console for yourself and one of each for the kids!) I recommend buying this for any console that you own.

Great for kids and adults

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 9 year old son plays this game with his friends and I hear lot of laughs!. When they are tired or frustrated because they can't pass a level they just start fighting (i.e. Darth Vader vs Joda). For adults it is fun to play with the kids. And the Lego graphics is just great (and a plus for Lego fans like me)

Fun, but not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Reviews were mixed out here. Several people said "Yes, the Wii Remote is the light saber" while others said "No, it isn't". The REAL answer is that it is a little of both. You CAN simulate movement with the Wii Remote, but it is NOT a 1-to-1 motion. In other words, when you hit the B button, a pre-programmed light saber animation attacks the enemy/object...at that point, feel free to move the light saber anywhere you want, it won't make any difference. What I EXPECTED (based on several reviews here by people who insisted it really works) was a 1-to-1 motion sensor, when I (or more importantly, my son) swing the Wii Remote to the right I wanted the light saber to move to right...up=up, down=down, and so on and so forth...alas, it does NOT work that way.

So, if you are like me and bought this game SOLELY based on believing the Wii Remote could truly, 1-to-1 simulate a light saber, you had better at least rent it first and make sure your expectations are where they need to be.

It is still a fun game, but at this point, I wish I would have bought it for my Xbox 360 so I would at least have the game in HiDef.

Super Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We're 2 kids ages 6 and 10 and we loved this game so much! It was filled with battles, using the force, and puzzles. we think everyone who has a Wii
should have this game. When we got this game for Christmas, we became addicted to it. GET LEGO STAR WARS THE COMPLETE SAGA!

Great fun for a six year old

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Got the Wii for Christmas and this game too. Star Wars is now the most favorite game in the family. The adults like it too. Definately worth the $50.

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