


With one player flying the Millennium Falcon, and the other aiming its weapons, it is incredible fun to take on the First Order. It’s simple and more child-friendly than a proper space combat sim, but still looks and feels thrilling. The introduction of space combat is where Lego Star Wars really shines, as you skim through Jakku’s abandoned Star Destroyers or step into Poe’s X-Wing cockpit to show off his ace pilot skills. It’s a great new addition and is something to build on in future Lego games. While a little clunky, it’s great to see your little Lego characters duck behind cover from incoming fire, having to dispatch enemy foes one by one. Star Wars classic blaster battles are better captured with the introduction of some basic cover shooting mechanics.
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Thankfully, it’s been worth the wait.įor a series that’s often accused of simply re-skinning those first Star Wars games with whatever blockbuster heroes happen to be in the cinema that summer, there’s a nice selection of new ideas. The Lego games began in the Star Wars universe, of course, so there has been much anticipation about TT Games’ grand return to this world. If you showed them a pile of real Lego bricks would they know what to do with them, or would they search desperately for the self-assembly button? A daft question, maybe, but these are daft games - plastic parodies of cherished films.

Traveller’s Tales has been making Lego games for 11 years now - there are kids in school today who haven’t known a time without them.
