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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Even after a slew of Lego video game adaptations over the years, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($40 on the Mac App Store) is able to offer new elements and add humor and replay value. Beginning with the Battle of Endor from Return of the Jedi, the game has you and your Ewok allies take on the Imperial forces while Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader team up against Emperor Palpatine aboard the second Death Star, the game running you through its tutorial segments all the while. Start with the classic Endor setting from “Return of the Jedi” and go from there. From here, you then hop into the plotline of The Force Awakens, taking on the roles of Poe Dameron, Finn, Rey, Han Solo, Chewbacca, BB-8, and others. Like its Lego adaptation predecessors, the basic gameplay style of “enter a new screen, smash everything, collect the Lego pieces and see what you can build in order to solve the puzzles to advance to the next section” remains familiar.
Even so, the game designers have added a new multi-build feature, expanding on the number of solutions available for the puzzles. Along with impressive graphics, sound and vocal work, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is able to entertain on all levels, functioning as a good platform, action and puzzle game while also possessing a sense of humor that works across all ages. The characters are able to keep a fun sense of slapstick humor going, complete with characters snagging coffee and pastries from each other during the cut scenes and silly mission objectives (such as having to find a shipment of Wookie Cookies for Chewbacca) were added to a level’s objectives. It’s the game’s sense of humor that helps work through the dark moments from The Force Awakens, such as replacing the blood on Finn’s helmet in the early stages of the story to green goop from a beverage that was spilled, which helps make it more suitable for a family audience. Several cover-based combat sequences add a much-appreciated dose of action to the game.
Like the previous Lego titles, there’s a focus on replay value as well as unlocking playable characters—some sections of each level can only be accessed by certain characters. A Free Play mode allows you to explore at will, and support for gamepads as well as simultaneous two-player gameplay allows for different play styles. There’s generally something new to unlock upon replay, which should keep players that love to fully complete a game completely happy. There are a few bugs to iron out, but nothing that serves as a deal breaker. Occasional user interface bugs surfaced when the game flashed the wrong key to press to perform an action and you have to work around this. Finally, in one sequence, the frame rate slowed dramatically during one of the fight sequences on the Starkiller Base level towards the end of the game. What’s “Star Wars” without nifty X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter combat? Even if the Lego video game formula has become familiar, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens still manages to add some interesting new aspects and enough replay value to make you want to go back and play the game with characters that can open every portion of a level.
This, combined with Lego’s warmth and humor, only make it better and a worthwhile title. To comment on this article and other Macworld content, visit our Facebook page or our Twitter feed. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Familiar gameplay to regular Leo gamers Perfomance issues towards the end of the gameToday’s LEGO review of Palpatine’s Throne Rome, otherwise known as the “Death Star Final Duel”, we’re going to do something different. Instead of just getting up close and personal with all the little bits, we’ve gone ahead and captured a number of emotional, colorful recreations of the most epic scenes from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the film from whens this LEGO set and its minifigures originated. Prepare yourself for the most intense and highly dramatic LEGO review we’ve done so far! Above you’ll get the full view of the set. This “Death Star Final Duel” contains 724 pieces and is recommended for ages 8-14. That’s not going to stop my daughter and me, both of us outside the recommended age range by three years or more!
Putting together a set such as this is made all the more enjoyable with a friend or family member. Much of this set is nearly identical on either side. You can (almost) split it right down the middle with the same pieces on either side. Besides the obvious differences, my daughter and I were able to match one-another’s building as we created this set, both sides at once. While building LEGO sets generally cant help but be a one-person activity, most of this set lets you and a tiny companion learn and build and build while you learn. Once you get to the collapsing platform on the left and the tube on the right, things change. On the left you’ve got a platform on which Luke Skywalker can stand, telling Darth Vader and the Emperor his distain for battle. From there you can knock Luke down with a blow from Darth Vader’s lightsaber with a moving pillar, knocking the whole platform down! Down the center you’ve got an extendable walkway. This walkway, when pushed in, has two bar pieces which lock with clamp pieces on either side of this collapsable design.
This collapsable, lockable design is good for moving around, as is often the case when you’ve got kids who want to play with the model in every room of your abode. At the end of the walkway you’ve got a set of Royal Guards, each with their own handy pike. Also along this bridge is a built-in “Force Jump” launcher for Luke. Don’t attempt to aim – he’s going wherever The Force wants him to go – which is often the other side of the room. Up the main stairway you’ll find two destructible steps. The lever to the right, when pulled, blasts both steps upward and outward. Under the stairs you’ll find plenty of room for Darth Vader to hunt our hero. At this point I should warn you: all the lighting in this article was added by SlashGear, and is not included in the set. Also under the stairs you’ll find a lever which connects to the platform above. Above you’ll find a hole where a Lightsaber can rest. Tapping the lever below blasts the Lightsaber upward, as if Luke had called for it with the Force, just before Darth Vader would stop him from striking down the Emperor.
There Luke can stand, gazing at the battle happening above Endor as the Emperor attempts to sway him to the dark side. There you can witness the madness as well with the Emperor’s reversible head. Luke’s head is similarly reversible. Just as the Emperor brings out the lightning, Darth Vader can bring out the fury, tossing his master down into the depths. Inside this tube is the most difficult-to-place set of LEGO stickers ever placed. If you can get them all correctly attached, we applaud you heartily. Again, the lights you see here were added by SlashGear, and are not included with the set. At the base of the stairs you can recreate the final emotional moments between Luke and his father, newly remade in the LEGO universe for this set. Here Anakin is revealed with the first 2-part helmet ever made for Darth Vader. This set is available wherever fine LEGO toys are sold for a cool $79.99 USD. We recommend you pick up a few colorful LED pen-lights for full effect.