Quickie Game Review: Lego Star Wars for the Wii

[da]

This afternoon elbie_at_trig showed off Lego Star Wars for the Wii- it's fun. The entire Star Wars series is turned into sets of puzzles to be solved by your collection of Lego characters. It has wonderful Lego touches: you can use the force on various objects, and either they will move around, or they will burst into constituent Lego bricks. You can run a light-saber through a Protocol Droid, and it will shed Lego-shaped pieces. If you hack its leg off, it will continue following you around at a hop.

The cut-scenes were an appropriate cartoony 2-levels-more-silly than the movies. (Before Darth Vader shows up you see stormtroopers lounging looking bored, spinning around in office chairs.)

The puzzles seemed appropriately difficult- some were hand/eye coordination, and some were logic/exploration. The controls were... less exciting than I'd hoped for; the wiimote controlling a light-saber just has to wave back and forth to use it, or you can press a button instead. :/

Fun diversion, this. :)

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:) Coincidentally, although I've had the game for the Playstation 2 for something like a year now, clawfoot and I just started playing it again today. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Neat. It seems like a fun game, though it's not compelling enough for me to go and buy a Wii for (I thought it conceivably might be; though my threshhold for buying stuff is quite high).

We will have a PS2 before long, so perhaps I'll ask to borrow this from you or someone else, eventually. :)

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

The "original trilogy" Lego Star Wars on the PS2 is fun, whether you're solving puzzles or being silly and seeing how many times you can self-destruct R2D2.