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Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (Prima Official Game Guide)

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A game as big and as full of extras and secrets as Lego Star Wars II, you may need a leg up. Getting some of the hidden Lego Canisters and figuring out what you have to do in Freeplay mode can be bothersome. So of course, there's a strategy guide to give you a leg up. You may find you need it, but on the whole, the guide could've been way better. It isn't that the guide is bad, it's that it's heavily disorganized.

The guide begins, as most of them do, with the basics. Getting you used to the gameplay the way the instruction booklet is supposed to. Here, however, they give you a profile for each and every character. They tell you how to use each character, but to be honest, it's all the same. They give you a little mini-profile and then what they can do. All the jedi can do the same thing: The force, and unfortunately the guide will mention that for every jedi. Afterwards it talks about the transportation used in the game. From speeders to AT-ST walkers.

The guide then talks about the Mos Eisley Cantina. It only talks about the things you can do, but it's not really that in-depth on it. The good news is the guide doesn't have to be in-depth on it. It's easy enough to figure out on your own.

The walkthrough is where I begin to have some of the bigger problems with the guide. Each chapter begins with the overview provided by the game, and then a few story frames depicting what happens in the cutscenes before the start of the actual level. The problem with the walkthrough, however, is that it is heavily disorganized. Nothing is divided into sections (save for the call outs to freeplay mode). So in essence, if you come to a point where you need the guide but you haven't opened it, it'll be hard to find where you are in the walkthrough.

There are no maps to speak of throughout the walkthrough. I wouldn't have a problem with the lack of maps if there were an abundance of screenshots. There aren't an abundance of screenshots. Some of what the guide is trying to say can be rather confusing for the visual learner. They tell me to do something, but there's no screenshot to clarify what they're talking about. What screenshots there are are very small and blurry. To compensate for the blurry and small screenshots there are captions at least. This really does make the guide far better to use than it sounds.

The walkthrough could've been better on the whole. With a little more organization and bit more clarity it could've been far more useful. It does, however, become really helpful when playing through freeplay mode. If you go through freeplay mode, the guide calls out what you can do in freeplay. Since these sections aren't as long as the main walkthrough, they're not as tedious to read through to find yourself.

The walkthrough will get you through the game, it's just that you'll spend much more time reading the walkthrough than playing the game itself.

The guide covers the Bounty Hunter Missions and Gold Brick Bonuses. It hardly says anything about the Power Bricks which I could deal with. However, the part that could be on the divide for most people is the simple fact of whether or not you care that it gives you the cheats to unlock other characters. In some ways, it makes sense that the guide wouldn't give you something like this. After all, cheat codes should be left inside cheat books and the internet. Then again, a strategy guide is a cheap way to get ahead in the game, and just like looking up a cheat, it's optional to whether or not you're going to use it. Personally, a list of cheats should be in the guide, but I won't hold it against the guide one bit.

The main thing that makes me not recommend the guide is the highly disorganized walkthrough. For once I'd much rather go to GameFAQs. There are much more organized and detailed walkthroughs than this.

Unforttunately this game guide is not complete. You cannot find all of the LEGO cannisters and power bricks using this guide. You're going to have to stumble through on your own. If you have experienced the first LEGO Star Wars game then this guide is not worth the purchase.

This guide is missing quite a bit and is extremely disorganized. I finally resorted to highlighting the things that I needed and drawing arrows where appropriate.

The screnshots are substandard as well. There are much better guides available online.

Good game guide, it's helpful, covering every chapter in full detail, history and free modes, even when sometimes it is not very clear it helps.
It misses some canister locations, among them, the most difficult to find, which is the one in the first chapter, but this is hidden in the elevator ramp behind the crane and it's accessed with one of the cars built in previous sections (attainable only in free mode)
It does not cover the locations for all the red bricks, this would help a lot.

This is one of the worst Prima Guides ever released! You can find better walk-thru guides posted at various sites that give much better detail and organization. Skip this turkey and save your $$$.

Unbelievably, in the very first chapter of Episode IV, this guide only explains how to get 9 of the 10 LEGO canisters (used to build a MiniKit) when in Freeplay mode.

You'll be left hanging with this guide.

The book is ok. I bought the Indiana Jones one from the same company and it was WAY more detailed and helped more. This book doesn't give you all the canisters, red bricks, etc.... Non gamers like me that buy the books need it a little more detailed. Overall the book was ok I would recommend it for someon but not to pay full price for it

Very insightful, helps me find most of the items I can't otherwise find.

Overall this game manual is helpfull execept for a couple of Minikit Locations are missing in both Episodes 5 & 6, but otherwise it is pretty thourough.

Most of my questions weren't answered in this book. It's probably because of the lack of pictures and the fact that not all of the missions are listed. The pictures that are in there aren't large enough, either, so it can be hard to know what part of the chapter they're talking about. The book drags along as a written summary of what is happening, including the little clips within the chapters. If I want to know what happens, I'll play the game itself.