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[360] New details, screens of the vehicles of Lego Star Wars II

Did you like flying around in a Legofied Jedi starfighter in Lego Star Wars? Stuff like that will be just the tip of the iceberg in the sequel, according to publisher LucasArts.

In a press release yesterday, the company announced that Lego Star Wars II will not only add a slew of new vehicles - including X-Wings, plastic dewback lizards (complete with chomping action) and a bricky version of the Millennium Falcon - but it'll integrate them into the platform-hopping gameplay in ways that the first game never did.

"Characters will be able to get in and out of vehicles, and ride creatures," said Tom Stone, one of the game's directors.

The vehicle-only levels will be more open as well, with players free to explore in any direction, instead of being stuck on rails like they were in the first game. Additionally, Free Play mode will let you use nearly any vehicle you want in these, to the point of flying the Death Star trench run in a speeder bike.

But to hell with that - we want to do it on a tauntaun. Your move, LucasArts.

To get a look at the Lego rides you'll be able to pilot when the game ships this September, hit the Images tab above.

June 21, 2006

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.