![]() Warner Bros BB-8 presents Rey with a bunch of Lego flowers. Warner Bros The side missions are entertaining diversions with one interlude showing how Han and Chewie hunted the Rathtars seen in The Force Awakens film. Rey on Jakku in full Assassin's Creed-like parkour mode. ![]() Thankfully, the gameplay has a few Jedi mind tricks up its sleeve to ease what could plunge the instances of arbitrary padding into a monotonous slog. Unfortunately for The Force Awakens, while previous Lego Star Wars games had the luxury of sourcing its level-inspirations from entire trilogies, TT Fusion's latest effort sometimes plods under the weight of having to stretch out sequences from the source material that lasted less than a several minutes on-screen. The youth-friendly alterations are particularly enjoyable such as how Finn's blood-stained helmet from JJ Abram's movie is instead smeared with vegetable juices, but whether it's Stormtroopers taking selfies or First Order officers discussing exposed Death Star shafts and the associated responsibility of their workers union, there are plenty of jokes worthy of a wry smile here. Hearing Rey spout incidental phrases like "that sounded smashy" is lovely and all, but listening to her explain what a 'Luggabeast' is to BB-8 fits alongside the canon-expanding side-missions to add an extra bit of appeal for Jedi scholars.Īs for the characteristic humour? While there are a few too many running gags at times, the majority of the childish chuckles hit home with force (pun definitely intended). Whether it's BB-8's posture and digitised exclamation when hitting full throttle, the seamless ebb and flow of John Williams' score with the action, or the use of dialogue samples from the film itself – this is a galaxy far, far away that will hit very close to home for fans.įresh lines have also been recorded solely for the game, with John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and even Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher among those to reprise their iconic big-screen characters in mini-fig form. The level of detail and authenticity is nigh-on staggering. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees Traveller's Tales' legacy (now helmed by the subsidiary studio TT Fusion) come full circle with the re-introduction of lightsabers and force powers into its studs, studs, studs and more studs oeuvre, and yet somehow any pangs of apathy toward the studio's oversaturated formula are abated from the off.įor a Star Wars addict that could partly be down to the fact that this is about as close as we are going to get to a fully-fledged The Force Awakens movie tie-in. In the level "Maz's Castle", when Rey first picks up the Skywalker's lightsaber at Maz Kanata's castle at Takodana, the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark can been seen in the castle's basement.Star Wars Battlefront single-player campaign sacrificed to meet Force Awakens release.In the level "The Eravana", when Han Solo along Chewbacca and BB-8 are escaping from the rathtars aboard the Eravana, when they enter into a room, Solo loses his hair but retrieves it before the door closes down as a nod to the spike chamber escape scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.While primarily a Star Wars product, the game nevertheless includes some references to the Indiana Jones series: ![]() Unlike the previous installments, The Force Awakens is based around one film, in this case Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (with a prologue set during the climax of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi). It is the fifth game in the series as well as the first LEGO Star Wars game with a voice cast, including Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a LEGO Star Wars video game published under license from Lucasfilm Games on June 28, 2016.
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