Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
Category: PlayStation 2 Game
Console: PlayStation 2 (Download Emulator)
Developer: Traveller's Tales
Publisher: Eidos Interactive / Giant Interactive Entertainment
Series: Lego Star Wars
Genre: Action / Adventure
Mode: Single-player / Multiplayer
Region: NTSC
Views: 9,395,586
Downloads: 5,887,138
Released: 29 March 2005
File Size: 479.6 MB
Rating: 4.8/5 (2,958 votes)
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (sometimes simply called Lego Star Wars) is a 2005 action-adventure video game based on the Lego Star Wars theme of Lego construction toys, and the first installment in the Lego video game franchise developed by Traveller's Tales, which would develop many future Lego titles from that point on. It was first released on 29 March 2005.
It was developed by Traveller's Tales for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Windows. Griptonite Games developed the Game Boy Advance version. All versions were published by Eidos Interactive and Giant Interactive Entertainment (now TT Games Publishing).
Gameplay in Lego Star Wars is geared towards family play, and does not feature a game-over scenario. Given a specific set of characters in each scenario, based on a scene from each of the movies, up to two players can control them, using their different abilities.
By walking up to another friendly character, the player can switch control over to that character, this interaction is necessary in order to use another character's abilities to complete certain puzzles.
When the player first starts the game, they must first complete Chapter 1 of The Phantom Menace ("Negotiations"). However, once that Chapter is completed, the player may choose to play any unlocked levels from the other two movies in their desired order.
Completing all the game's levels with full stud bars will unlock an additional chapter based on the opening scene of A New Hope, which features a 'prototype' Darth Vader, who uses Anakin's fighting style, and a Stormtrooper whose movements are identical to the Clone Troopers.
The game received generally favorable reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 versions were ported for release on 7 July 2005, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40 for the latter, and 28 out of 40 for the former.
The game was the thirteenth best selling game of 2005. Figures released by The NPD Group show the PlayStation 2 version as the tenth best selling single-platform title of 2005.
The PlayStation 2 version received a "Double Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 600,000 units in the UK. By July 2006, the same console version had sold 1 million units in the U.S. alone.
During the 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Lego Star Wars received a nomination for "Family Game of the Year", which was ultimately awarded to Guitar Hero.
The game's sequel, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, was released in September 2006. 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).
