Lego Star Wars
Last night Mike and I went to Blockbuster to find a fun game to play while we hung out for a while. I told Mike that it could be his choice, but if he couldn’t make up his mind we should rent NCAA Football 2006 because we were going to watch the Gator game at 8:00, and it might be fun to pregame by playing head to head Tennessee vs Florida.
He chose Lego Star Wars for the XBOX because he wanted to see what it was about and see if it was any good.
The game is pretty good. It’s for younger kids, I think, so you could really lose the game. So, we just played through Episode I in the first night — until the game started. Then this afternoon we finished up Episodes II and III. There are a lot of things that we liked about the game.
One of the handiest features is the drop in / drop out cooperative play mode. This feature makes it so that you can leave to go talk to a wife or girlfriend and the other person can keep playing and advancing through the game. Then when you come back you just pick up the controller and you are right back in the game.
We also both really liked the game because of the Lego take on everything Star Wars. There were lots of cinematic clips from the movie redone Lego style, and the only departures from the film were for great Lego slapstick humor.
Actually, there are lots of little things here and there that make this game a lot of fun. I don’t think I can take the game apart like a Lego set and explain why each part of it was so fun. I wasn’t expecting to like it nearly as much as I did, which is always huge plus.