Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Category: PlayStation 2 Game

Console: PlayStation 2 (Download Emulator)

Publisher: LucasArts

Mode: Single-player / Multiplayer

Region: NTSC

Views: 12,486,237

Downloads: 8,275,126

Released: 12 September 2006

File Size: 1 GB

Rating: ★★★★☆ 4.9/5 (5,826 votes)

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy is a 2006 Lego-themed action-adventure game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts and TT Games Publishing, and is the sequel to Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (2005).

Part of the Lego Star Wars series, it is based on George Lucas' movie franchise of the same name and The Lego Group's Lego Star Wars construction toy line. It follows the events of the first three original Star Wars films: A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983).

Lego Star Wars II's gameplay is from a third-person perspective, and takes place in a 3D game world that contains objects, environments, and characters designed to resemble Lego pieces.

The gameplay it's a combination of the action-adventure, platform, and sometimes puzzle genres shares elements with that of Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (2005).

The player assumes the roles of the films characters, each of whom possesses specific weapons and abilities. At any time, a second player can join the game, by activating a second controller.

The player has a health meter, which is displayed on the game's HUD. The player's health is represented by four hearts, when these hearts are depleted, the player dies, and a small amount of their studs bounce away. However, they instantly respawn and can often recollect the lost studs.

The game's central location is the Mos Eisley cantina, a spaceport bar on the planet Tatooine. At the counter, the player may use their Lego studs to purchase characters, vehicles, gameplay hints and extras, as well as view unlocked Story cutscenes and activate cheat codes.

The game is broken into levels, which are accessed from the cantina, each film is represented by six levels, representing key locations and scenes in that film. The locations include Hoth, Bespin, Dagobah, Tatooine, the Death Star, and Endor.

68 characters from the films are playable over the course of the game, including variations of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lando Calrissian, R2-D2, C-3PO, Darth Vader, Wicket the Ewok, and Boba Fett.

Upon release, Lego Star Wars II was positively received by critics, who praised its portrayal of the films' characters and events. Nintendo Power staff writer Chris Shepperd claimed that "The adorable Lego adaptations also led to some hilarious story moments: the 'I am your father' scene from The Empire Strikes Back is priceless". Reviewers from GameSpy, 1Up.com, GameSpot, IGN, and PlayStation: The Official Magazine offered similar opinions.

Lego Star Wars II sold over 1.1 million copies worldwide in its opening week. The PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox 360, and Xbox versions best selling games of September 2006, respectively. Lego Star Wars II won and was nominated for numerous awards, and ranked on several video game lists. The official Star Wars website declared Lego Star Wars II to be the best Star Wars related product of 2006.

The game won iParenting Media Awards' "2006 Greatest Products Call", and was placed on Reader's Digest's September 2006 "5 Things We Don't Want You to Miss" list, Time magazine's list of the top ten video games of 2006, and GameSpy's PC "Game of the Year" list. It received the 2006 Game of the Year award from Nick Jr. and IGN (for PC games only).

By 2 May 2009, the game's worldwide sales had surpassed 8.2 million. It has been certified as part of the budget lines Platinum Hits for the Xbox 360, Greatest Hits for the PlayStation 2 (each represents a worldwide sales total of at least 400,000 on its respective platform), and Player's Choice for the GameCube (250,000).