Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Xbox 360)

This is a repackaging of Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. There are a few new bells and whistles, like a couple new missions, but for the most part it’s the same two games over again. If you haven’t played these games, they are pretty much what the titles imply: retellings of the two Star Wars trilogies, with Lego characters taking the part of seemingly every character in the entire movie series, including random droids and Bossk, the reptilian bounty hunter that was on the Star Destroyer in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s amusing seeing the Lego-ized Star Wars scenes being played out in pantomime, albeit with some changes to the story (I don’t recall the Jawas stealing R2-D2 and C-3PO back after Luke bought them).

The games were designed with children in mind, so they’re not really “difficult” in the traditional sense – you have infinite lives, and most of the puzzles are solved by blowing something up or building something with Lego bricks scattered around the levels. The real challenge is collecting enough Lego studs to purchase all of the characters, vehicles, and powerups, and finding all of the hidden stuff in the levels, which requires at least two playthroughs for each level.

This isn’t a very deep game, but it’s fun to pick up for an hour or so, and I appreciate the fact that it’s a two-player co-op game, something that seems to be lacking these days, so my boyfriend and I can play it together.

3 out of 5