Hands-on time with LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy only confirms what you already knew: If this adorable game does not make you smile, you have no soul. Of course, cute ain't everything, and that's the real reason why our time traipsing through Episodes IV (A New Hope) and V (The Empire Strikes Back ) in a preview version of this Xbox 360 action/adventure was so satisfying. Not only is the game almost huggable (all these warm-fuzzy screens are taken from the Xbox 360 version), it's a ... » Read More

11 Aug 2006

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

PSP Preview | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Friday 11 August 2006 The original Lego Star Wars on PS2 had its flaws, but we loved it to little plastic bits. So the shock news isn't that Traveller's Tales is developing a sequel based on the original trilogy, but that it looks almost as good on PSP - you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference, bar the fine detail - with a handful of unique features that you won't find in the full-fat PS2 version. Challenge mode is the most notable new feature. In this you play through timed versions of ... » Read More

13 Jul 2006

Lego Star Wars II hands-on

PSP Preview | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

A rebel ship disappears from orbit, sucked into the belly of an Imperial Star Destroyer. Rebels hold their breath and take up defensive positions as a door is breached. Stormtroopers flood in. Shots are fired. Cute plastic heads clatter to the floor and slowly blink out of existence. Beginning with the first scene of A New Hope, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy finally gives fans what they really want: the chance to play through Lego versions of the first three films. We've finally had ... » Read More

18 May 2006

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy - first...

PSP Preview | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Our first real glimpse of Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy was of Luke Skywalker running over pedestrians in a landspeeder. As he thoughtlessly careened around the streets of Mos Eisley, any Lego people who got in his way were reduced to flailing their limbs while lying helplessly on their backs. No wonder those goons in the cantina don't like him. While it still features plenty of the adorable lightsaber-swinging, puzzle-solving, multiple-character-controlling action that made the ... » Read More

17 Mar 2006

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

PSP Preview | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Lego Star Wars didn't so much secure the support of a wide audience as capture, for entirely separate reasons, the hearts of two. Children warmed to its unpatronising approach and to adults it provided an antidote to George Lucas' wavering prequels. For its successor - at first glance a project with everything to gain - the use of Episodes IV to VI as source material is, in the eyes of adults at least, of significant concern. Will innocent parody earn the same appreciation when applied to ... » Read More

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