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A nice outting, but a little short.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 133 / 137
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a blast despite some lackluster reviews received from official game reviewing sites. Lego Star Wars lets you act out all the major action scenes in Star Wars episodes 1, 2, and 3.

The game has a unique look which is welcome amid the myriad of games that seek to portray realism in graphics. The controls are quite simplistic (each character can only attack, jump, or do a special move) but can be somewhat cumbersome while playing with the keyboard. A gamepad is definitely recommended.

The game is on the short side but has replay value if you are the kind of gamer that likes to go back and discover new areas and unlock all the characters (50 in all). The simplicity of control and shortness of the game led me to believe that the game was intended for children but I found it to be extremely fun.

Those that are trying to remain spoiler free should refrain from playing the levels associated with episode 3 as they reveal the major plot points of the upcoming movie.

Note that this game requires a graphics card that supports pixel shader 1.1. It will not run without it. I was a bit surprised by that because I was expecting the graphics component of this game to be less that what it ended up being. Many economy graphics cards that are over a year old do not support pixel shader 1.1. Check before you buy. If you are still uncertain download the free demo. If the demo runs then you will not have any problems.

Silly fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 32 / 42
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A delightful if unlikely combination of two very different genres. There's something about seeing George Lucas's rather pretentious characters being played by Lego people that really tickles my funnybone. On the other hand, the game takes enough of the premise seriously to let you enter the world of Star Wars. And it's breathtaking to pilot a starship through one of those signature space battles from the movies, even if they're all made of Lego bricks.

Gameplay is smooth and intuitive, though it's better suited to a console or game pad-type interface than a keyboard. Action is a little tough for anyone over the age of about 18 (especially if you're WAY over 18, like me); puzzles are just hard enough to make you think but not hard enough to make you give up. Includes Episode I (The Phantom Menace), Episode II (Attack of the Clones), and Episode III (Revenge of the Sith), with all the action and none of the tedious dialogue.

A surprisingly fun game.

BEFORE YOU BUY DO THIS! IT'S FREE AND EASY!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I recieved this game for Christmas and was very disappointed when I found out it wouldn't work on my Windows XP Dell. I have the wrong video card. A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE WRONG CARD, FIND OUT IF YOU CAN PLAY THIS GAME ON YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE YOU BUY!!! I wish I knew this before: go to the Eidos Interactive website, click on "games" choose Lego Star Wars from the list. On that page, there is an option to run a download that will ANALYZE your computer and tell you if you can play this game or not! Doing this also provides you with all the information about your sound and video cards. This was so helpful. It's a tiny download and it's free. Took it 60 seconds to check my comp. I failed sadly, but it even gives to links to places where you can get the right cards. GO HERE FIRST!

Fun if you can get it to work...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: April 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing this game at a friend's house (xbox), I decided to get it for my birthday. Like many others, I had the same 'pixel shader' issue. Although my computer is generally pretty fast, I am not a big gamer and my video card was not up to date. I got a new one, not just for the sake of this game, but I needed a new one anyway. After best buy tried to charge $35 for installing it, I just installed it myself. Try downloading the demo at legostarwarsthevideogame.com to see if it will work on your computer.
The game disk was then defective, upon which I called their support number and ordered a replacement (free). Of course, it got lost in the mail, and I had to order another.
Once I got the game though, it was great. I highly recommend this game to all ages (its really funny to see darth vader or maul made from legos). Just get it at the store and make sure it you have the right video card!

M

Not for older PC's

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Your video card must have "vertex and pixel shader v1.1". This is a video card older than about 2001. GeForce 3 or better; Radeon 9600, etc. (source: Eidos) Download the demo first from Eidos. Oh, be warned: Downloading the demo puts a very hard to locate and dump service on your PC you'll have to rip out of the registry - SecuROM. You'll find it running under Control Panel, Admin. Tools, Services, SecuROM. This runs in the background and takes up memory after you've uninstalled the game. Yes, a little much for a kids game, but I'm looking at upgrading my video card in the next couple months. Rumor has it that later it will come out for on the console (X-Box, gamecube, etc.). Update: No patch for the game controller direction jammer yet. Warning - In the game, do not use the Controller Options menu. Eidos hasn't responded to my reply and has not fixed the bug yet. Once you install the game 1/2 way through it, it will force one of the characters to run left or right. This will also force that direction into the control options menu and every directional will not be able to be set w/the blinking command. (This guy is really big, you'd think they'd have something that works.) Try to stick to Microsoft Games. Other companies are in denial about laying off all the programmers and customer service staff.

4 1/2 overall

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game except that we had to buy a new video card, so beware--but still an AWESOME game!! It is fun to beover 30 (yes 30) characters. But we needed a new vid card anyaway...but also, you do not ever have to start over a level when you die. Free play is fun, but playing Darth Maul against battle droids is just weird. But I really enjoy this game--it's a great game don't get me wrong--but beforehand you might want to check the requirements.

As for gameplay, it's plain old awesome. If you get the game to work, Episode 3 will unfold! It looks great--I can't wait for the movie. But consider yourself wrned about the requirements.

Overall rating: 92 of 100

More fun than anything

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Star Wars Lego Game was a fairly good buy. It's fun, even if a little unusual. There are missions from all of the three prequel Star Wars movies and a large selection of characters to choose to play.

The Pros:

Two people can play at a time- awesome.
The characters don't die- you just lose points (lego studs).
The space battles are really cool cause you dodge blaster cannon bolts and hit enemy fighters.
The graphics are pretty neat.

The Cons:

The game is almost too easy.
The Dark Jedi and gunners are weaker than other characters.

The Weird:

The characters don't talk. This is a little annoying and I wonder why they did it that way, but I got used to it rather quickly.

Disappointed child, no pixel shader

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My son had played this at a friend's house and absolutely LOVED it. We bought it online, but the specifications online didn't tell us we needed "pixel shader support", to run the program.
After much work, we found out that we would have to pay over $100 for an extra computer part to be able to run this program.

My son cried because this was his Christmas money and he couldn't return the game for something else since it had been opened (as we tried to install it). We had a brand new computer (2 weeks old) so we thought we had everything we needed to run a computer game. We have tried to give it to friends, and as of yet, have not found anyone who has this extra feature on the computer, so none can use it.
Only the friend whose house my son had learned about this game at (and played it), has this feature.

IF you have the right parts to play it, my son says it is an awesome game. Most people I've found though (even my cousin whose job and life is computers and computer games) can't run it on their computer. I think this should have been highlighted in the description of the game. Amazon was kind enough to refund part of our money, but we still had an extremely disappointed and sad child.

Just because YOUR pc can't run it doesn't make it a bad game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 29
Date: June 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So I just spent some wonderful bonding time with my 7 year old son -- by the way, that's about the beginning of what I'd call the target range of this title -- and I thought I'd come here to share the secret that this is a fantastic, unique game for any parent to spend time playing with their star wars geek kid. I thought I'd write about the brilliant implementation of fighting without real violence (the LEGO characters just break into component blocks like when a real toy gets whacked, no blood or death involved); the nicely done implementation of the game as both impossible to lose (you just keep regenerating, with a deduction of 1000 collected studs) and yet simultaneously challenging, with multiple passes of replayability (you'll want to come back and play levels again to get "true jedi status" and a part to the vehicle you are trying to build in the game, or to get all ten LEGO canisters to build a mini vehicle for each chapter, which you will almost always have to do in "free play mode", meaning the game has replayability assumed); the inclusion of a lot of problem solving despite a very simple interface (just direction movement and a coupel other buttons to push), via figuring out which characters to use for a given puzzle; the wonderful graphics and charming appearance of the lego characters for kids and adults alike; the two player interface which simultaneously reqquires cooperation between two players, yet also allows a second player (the parent, or perhaps the 7 year old who is overwhelmed by some challenge) to drop in and out if necessary. And so on. We got this game friday and my son would not stop begging me to play this; on both saturday and sunday morning he was in our room at 6am! This game has an amazing balance of challenge and forgiveness of mistakes/less aptitude that I have never seen before in a PC title.

But what do I find right away but a bunch of people giving one star ratings to this game because it doesn't play on THEIR computer. HELLO, you shouldn't RATE the game if you've never even PLAYED it! Stop misleading people about the quality of this game, we want to see a rating of the game, not the technical capabiliteis of your personal PC. How sad.

Though these people think this is the #1 most important facet of the game (the only basis of their rating), yet I don't see a single one of them bothering to provide the info on what hardware is required! Well here's the scoop:

1) DESPITE what people say here, the video requirement IS listed on the box. It says "100% DirectX 9 compatible 32meg Direct3D Card with Pixel shader support"

2) and here's a site with further elaboration from and eidos technical support board that there may be a work around even to that:

http://forums.eidosgames.com/archive/index.php/t-51053.html

Finally, I note that the reviewer before me states "Spent an hour with Dell tech support, who told me they don't MAKE a computer this runs on!" For the record, the machine my son is playing this on is an 18 month old Dell 400sc with 256meg RAM and a Celeron 2.0ghz (i.e. very slow) that I bought from Dell for $179 during a Dell sale 18 months ago. The only upgrade I made was repalce the $5 ATI Rage card with an ATI Radeon 9200 card, which I just looked up on pricewatch and found can be had for $19, shipped fedex for free. So Puh-LEASE cut it out with all the "this game requres too much hardware" complaints, it doesn't demand THAT much, and do we really want every kids game to have crappy graphics, why can't you allow Eidos to make one or two games that actaully use to good effect the hardware many of us have. Why do you begrudge other people that enjoyment?

In short: educate yourself before you buy. If you do, you will find that if you have 1) any computer meeting the minimum requirements described above, and 2) and child remotely interested in Star Wars and/or vidoe games, then you have to get this. That's what's happening in the UK, where this is the #1 selling game right now, I read on the eidos web site linked above.

Slapstick comedy and interesting feel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: September 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lego Star Wars received a skeptical look by me when it first came out. Of course, as a kid in America I played with Legos all the time. In 1985 I started playing video games as a kid and soon replaced those little Legos. Now in 2006, I find myself playing with both again. What a blast.

Lego Star Wars as a video game is actually quite developed. Besides the familiarity with the popular Star Wars story, the game concepts are awesome. I am not so much an action/adventure gamer, but this game is hard to stop playing. The graphics are legitimate as your characters move about the field and interact with static and dynamic objects.

The replay value for this game is different than what you would expect from RPGs or sports games. The replay value here is similar to that of The Legend of Zelda and the like. That is, you will find yourelf replaying each level until you explore every single nook and cranny - even the ones that might be possible nooks or crannies. (Could this be the place to find that last starship part?)

That's what makes this game so great - the player wants to test every square inch of the virtual world looking to complete the side quests. But usually before that, the player will play the storyline, love the Star Wars theme, and then replay the level to fish in every darn corner for that last coin spot. It is so much fun.

I was greatly surprised how a 30 year-old fella like me was enthralled in this game. You will also laugh out loud at the humor introduced in this game with this slightly new take on the Star Wars story.

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