Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

by LucasArts

Product Features

• Make Darth Maul a hero of the Rebellion, or destroy the Death Star with a TIE fighter!
• Expands upon all of the fun and creativity that made the original LEGO Star Wars such a hit, this time set during the original three Star Wars films (Episodes IV, V, VI).
• Unlock up to 54 more playable characters with a game save from the original LEGO Star Wars (consoles/Windows).
• Create unique playable characters like Yoda Kenobi, Lando Fortuna and millions more by mixing and matching the LEGO body parts of all playable characters.
• In Free Play mode, experience the Original Trilogy in a new way by importing any character into land levels, or switch between vehicles at will in space levels.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FDKZCU
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches ; 5.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,941 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy takes the fun and endless customization of LEGO and combines it with the epic story, characters and action from the original Star Wars movies that revolutionized pop culture forever (Episode IV A New Hope, Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI Return of the Jedi). With a unique tongue-in-cheek take on the Original Trilogy, LEGO Star Wars II follows the Rebel Alliance’s crusade to dismantle the Galactic Empire and rebuild a galaxy in pieces. Build and battle your way through your favorite film moments, from Darth Vader’s pursuit of Princess Leia aboard her Blockade Runner to a showdown on the second Death Star, as the game includes even more of the family-friendly LEGO action, puzzles and humor that earned the original LEGO Star Wars such popularity and acclaim.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Gaming Fun for All Ages, September 16, 2006

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PC Games) (CD-ROM)

I loved the original Lego Star Wars game. It was incredibly fun, very replayable and had a wicked sense of humor. Lego Star Wars II is just as fun, and covers Episodes IV-VI!

It's very rare to find a game that kids can play, adults can play, and everybody truly loves it. This is one of those games. I'm sure kids enjoy the game quite a lot - but pretty much every adult gamer I know loves this series as well. It's fun, it has classic scenes from the Star Wars movies done in a VERY funny style, and you can keep replaying it. You can play it with friends! You can unlock new episodes, new ships, new characters, you name it.

The first thing you notice when you enter the "Cantina" is that now you can MAKE NEW CHARACTERS!!! Yes, you can mix up Darth Vader's head, Princess Leia's torso and a stormtrooper's pants. You can mix pretty much any character you find in the game, and give them personalized names! Then you can bring 2 of your creations into the game with you on free play mode. Talk about fun!!

The game gets even better. Yes, you work through all the classic scenes - Luke buying the droids, the Death Star blowing up, and so on from the "first 3 movies" (in release order at least). The cut scenes are VERY funny. Being able to play along as the various characters is amazingly fun in story mode, and even better in "free play" when you can randomly switch between a variety of characters to find all the hidden items.

I love the stud finding system. You want more money? Just replay a mission a few times. You can get all sorts of fun "cheats" (not cheats, really, but fun add-ons), you can buy new characters to use, and much more. It really gives you incentive to keep playing.

Is a youngster in the house having trouble playing? Just have an adult pop into the game for a while to help out, then the adult can pop out again, to let the child keep playing! It is just brilliant. I love this game.

The graphics are superb, as last time, with little lego movements seeming just right. Their swaggers and sliders are incredibly funny. The sound, of course, is the real movie soundtrack and is superb. You couldn't ask for anything better.

Even the tiny touches are funny. If C-3PO starts getting hit, he loses an arm, then another arm, then a leg. You have him hopping along valiantly behind you, trying to remain with your team. Chewie rips off arms from stormtroopers.

Now of course, there are always a few things the game designers get wrong. While Chewie's arm-ripping is quite funny, it is REALLY annoying when he does it - very slowly - in the middle of a firefight when you wanted him to be blasting away. The characters automatically switch into close combat mode if they think someone is nearby, even if you really needed to fire away at someone with the blaster. Even more annoying, if you're blasting away at "destructables" (wall items, whatever) and your friend gets near you start bashing on him!

The camera is also really annoying. You get a *slight* amount of view control, but not much. When you are craning around trying to find a mini-kit on the screen and the camera keeps swooping wildly exactly where you do NOT want to look, it can get very frustrating.

Still, these are minor problems in a game that is so stellar. I highly, highly recommend this game for any gamer of any age. It's incredibly fun.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, November 15, 2006

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S. Arnos "baby and toy expert" (Villa Park, IL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PC Games) (CD-ROM)

My husband and my son are addicted to this game! They liked the first one but the graphics and the difficulty level on this are much better! The characters are wonderful and the level of violence (especially for a technologically advanced 6 year old) is right where it should be. I would much rather see him crumble into lego parts than die a bloody on screen death. My husband ( an avid video game-a-holic) loves this game as well. The lack of "real" violence has not turned him off at all. I only wish that all games could be this realistic yet this tame when it comes to violent images. We HIGHLY recommend this!.... For ALL ages! After all, who doesn't love LEGO's?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game overall, but a complaint about game saving, June 23, 2007

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Ben Chronister "BC" (Duvall, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PC Games) (CD-ROM)

This game is great fun for kids as well as adults. The gameplay consists of shoot-em-up for points, puzzles to solve, and some coordination stunts like driving a hovercraft across a straight line of lights. There are a large number of chapters including all the major scenes from Star Wars 4, 5 & 6. The transition videos it plays between each episode are really funny - for example when Leia records the message to put in R2D2 she can't figure out how to put it inside him, so she opens up his top like a garbage can and throws it in !



After chapters are complete, you can go back as other star wars characters in free play mode and open up hidden rooms. There are special legos to collect over time which open up additional secrets. Also you can customize characters and put different heads on different bodies - very funny.



The game play in many ways is best with 2 players, some of the scenes you really want someone shooting while you solve the puzzle, or it gets a bit frustrating to keep getting shot. But you can die as many times as necessary without losing ground in the story - only money/points. And there is no blood, just lego pieces flying about :)



I picked up 2 Xbox 360 controllers and plugged them into my PC (yes you can do this) and they worked really well - much easier to control than the keyboard, especially with 2 player mode.



The only negatives I would mention are that you cannot save progress in the middle of a chapter. If you only have a limited amount of time, you will have to start the chapter over if you stop playing - some of the chapters can take 30-45 minutes to complete especially the first time through.



Secondly, the game has fairly high end video card requirements (pixel shading & vertex shading). The discount GeForce card I got just 1 year ago was insufficient, and I had to buy a new card before I can play this game on my XP machine. It does work just fine with Windows Vista.

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