- #LEGO STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS HALLOWEEN MOVIE#
- #LEGO STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS HALLOWEEN SERIES#
And it’s content that’s going to be used from now on.
"But in some instances, we’ve been able to create our own Star Wars content. These levels aren't all retreads, though 11 of them are based on plot points covered in the movie, but seven are what Wileman calls "new story levels - stories we've created ourselves with the help of LucasFilm." These will showcase events prior to the timeline of The Force Awakens, such as revealing what Han Solo and Chewbacca were up prior to the film.įor some of the outside-movie stuff, the team at LucasArts have an idea of how they want it to look," Wileman says. There are 18 levels, and large sections of them focus on simple 3D platforming and brawling, allowing you to smash up the environments and gather Lego studs. At first, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has exactly what you'd expect from a Lego movie. Those changes aren't obvious immediately. We're trying to bring all of that together." "So has the way we make games and the different features that we can bring to them. "In the 10 years since our first Lego Star Wars, technology has moved on," says associate producer Tim Wileman. It's the game that kicked off a never-ending stream of Lego games following a similar formula 11 years ago, and the developer has returned to Star Wars over and over, finding a natural match with its family-friendly approach to co-op gameplay.Īnd it's perhaps in part because of this important connection that Traveller's Tales is using Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the opportunity to finally mix up the formula it's become so consistent with (see trailer, above). Not every level sparkles (one, in which you must tediously load the Millennium Falcon, sticks out), but the wit, ingenuity and fan-service ensure that, in the ever-expanding Star Wars galaxy, one of its brightest stars is now made of bricks.Lego Star Wars is an important franchise for Traveller's Tales. Those piles of bricks can now be used to build more than one object at a time as well, breathing fresh air into the puzzle design. One example being the sections when you must hide behind cover in a shoot-out, the game switching to an over-the-shoulder camera view as you line up headshots as if playing Gears Of War. For veterans, The Force Awakens introduces a clutch of new ideas to go along with its pristine new game engine, which renders the LEGO world with unrivalled weight and sheen. You can switch between characters with ease, while each level strains at the seams with secrets that can only be accessed when you’ve unlocked the requisite personas and returned for a second play-through. When it comes to faraway switches that can only be reached with a blaster bullet, Han Solo always shoots first. Chewbacca can lob grenades that explode otherwise impervious silver bricks. Rey, for example, is a natural gymnast, able to fling her staff into cracks where it becomes an impromptu pole, which she can swing on to reach ledges. Each has an ability that must be used like a key to solve the lock of specific puzzles. You control a vast and expanding cast of characters - everyone from the marquee stars to the bit-part characters that only the most studious Star-gazer will recognise.
#LEGO STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS HALLOWEEN SERIES#
It breaks the film’s story into a series of chapters, providing a slapstick but faithful take on the original work. In this way LEGO Star Wars allows us to smash a tree into its plastic molecules, then rebuild it as a ladder, an anti-aircraft gun, or a switch for BB-8 to turn with his gyrating torso. Then, with a quiet wave of a hand, reassemble the wreckage. With a humming swish they can wreak destruction with a lightsaber. LEGO’s elemental appeal, as any child can tell you, is the joy of building a house then knocking it down again in a shower of plastic bricks - something particularly suited to a Jedi’s unique abilities. No cinematic blockbuster fits the LEGO template quite so snugly. Understandable, then, that in returning to the galaxy where it all began, the studio should first pay tribute to the Empire that built an empire. Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, The Lord Of The Rings, Jurassic Park - few big blockbusters have avoided the brick treatment.
#LEGO STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS HALLOWEEN MOVIE#
Eleven years ago it was in Star Wars’ universe that TT Games established a template for its multi-billion-dollar business: recreating megawatt movie franchises in digital LEGO. The first 30 minutes of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a victory lap of every battlefront featured in Return Of The Jedi’s Battle Of Endor. You come expecting the youthful exuberance of Finn, Rey and BB-8 and instead you’re treated to a thick shot of greatest hits nostalgia.
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