Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

"It can get pretty disapointing at some times"

LEGO Star Wars the Complete Saga is episode I to VI all made in LEGO.

This game is pretty promising, I'll admit, but it can't be referred to as a kid game. There are many occasions where an average kid is unable to beat that section or find that treasure.

The treasures that you can collect are white Canisters and Red Power Bricks. Finding all 10/10 Canisters sound easy, and the Power brick also sounds easy, but really it's not like that. Sometimes when you're in a one point perspective room you'll go straight, but sometimes if you turn around and go back for a couple seconds, you'll notice a canister or another area where you can find a canister or a Power Brick. Other times when you're walking in a side sc-roller fashion you can use R2-D2 to fly forward for a couple seconds and then there will be a canister on a platform or it will be just floating there. Other times, it will be so high up in the air that you'll never notice it and just miss it, leaving you stumped about where the final canister could be.

There are 160 Characters in the game, but most of them are never mentioned in the movie or are just other costumes for the other characters. Most characters like a child can't attack at all; this is a REALLY bad idea, why would there be a fighting game with a character that can't attack. Most other characters are never mentioned in the movie, but can still be played; I think this is the ONLY Star Wars game that has mentioned a Gonk Droid. Have you ever heard of them, I sure haven't.

There are also things called Challenges. What they do is require you to find all 10/10 Blue Kits in the level. Some of them are in the most un obvious place you've ever seen. If you don't think that finding them is enough then guess what, you have a time limit of 10 Minutes. Will any kid have enough patience to play through and find them all. If you play beat the level without the 10 Canisters, then you end up failing and having to start all over again (that's right it doesn't save for you).

This game also takes reality to seriously. Like when you're doing a flying level you'll loose some of you're health if you touch the wall (and only having a health bar of four units isn't very helpful). Other times when you walking and you have a gun, you expect to just hold down X, and it will keep firing for you. But no, that's too easy, you half to keep taping the X button. Another thing is when you're playing the first chapter in episode three, you flying but the Stick is controlling the Engine. This makes sure that when you press up, you go down, and when you down, you up. No other level is like that so it will confuse you. This doesn't seem that bad, but whenever you touch a wall you die and start back from the last check point. so the fact that up is down and down is up as well as the fact that you can't touch the wall, makes reality the worst thing yet to come.

There are also some bonus missions for you. Some easy, most hard. New town is the hardest level out of them all, it require you to find 1,000,000 studs in the level. When I played it, I destroyed everything and used force and Detonators on every thing else, yet the score meter only said 925,000. That's not even close. There just going to make us play for hours and out do every last possibility until we can actually find the solution.

This game also lets you play the Gunship Cavalry level and the Pod race level from the very first LEGO game. You'd think that they'd be easy, but no there impossible. The pod race requires you to get to each check point in less then 45 seconds or else you loose all you'll lives, you also loose health by touch the walls and loose all your health when you hit boulders. This sounds easy right, but if you're going at 115 MPH then it's nearly impossible to dodge these things or to even see where you're going. But at the final lap you half to win the race, this doesn't sound that hard, but you half to hit every Speed boost you can find in the level or else you won't win the race.

Gunship Cavalry is even harder; there are a bunch of enemies out to kill you and a bunch of lasers that take away all your health. This doesn't sound that bad but it is, whenever you die you half to start back at the last check point, and there are only two through the whole level. Your four units of health don't help you at all, and you can get any health back. if that's not enough then think of it like this, whenever you touch a wall, get hit by and enemy or go over an enemy, you loose a life. Whenever you hit a structure, hit a laser, go into a canyon or smash into a force field you loose all your lives. Something else that will get annoying is that the camera moves at the same, very slow pace. This means if you want to speed up to get to the next check point, then it won't let you go any faster, worst yet, if you're at the top of the screen then you won't know what's coming up, weather it's a hole, a laser or just some more enemies you must stay at the bottom of the screen. Another thing weird about that is that when the screen actually out runs you, you loose all your lives. How does that make sense?

Something else that's bad, is when you're in episode three chapter five, when you're in the second last area, you need to use you're force to bring out some platforms to get you up. The bad thing is that, there on a time limit, so whenever you bring it out you need to get up there as fast as you can. Another thing is that there are two platforms and one is above the other, so that means you half to jump above around to get up there (which is much harder then you think). Plus the fact that you're on a time limit makes it even worse.

In Episode three between Chapter five and six, there's no Emperor battle with Yoda. One of the most epic battles in Star Wars history, and they cut it out. As well, when you're fighting General Grievous, you don't actually fight in doors like in the movie, you fight outdoors with Commander Cody. Who is Commander Cody, you may wonder, well he is in the Remake of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and he goes to Obi Wan right after he defeats Grievous, so I don't know why he's fighting with you.

Overall, it's not the worst game I've ever played, there are defiantly some more offal games out there.

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 01/20/09

Game Release: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (US, 11/06/07)