Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Nintendo DS)

INTRODUCTION I was searching for stocking fillers on Amazon a few weeks ago when I stumbled across Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for what seemed like an astonishing bargain at £9.99. I am usually quite circumspect in buying games, often checking a fair few professional and consumer reviews before investing my hard-earned, but given the price and my very positive experience with the original Lego Indiana Jones equivalent for the Wii, I decided to forego the usual due diligence and bought it as a present - for myself. BASIC PREMISE For those not familiar with the burgeoning Lego games ... more

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is a game for Nintendo DS in which you play through the entire Star Wars story (episodes 1-6) but in a lego environment. All the characters, places/buildings and objects are made of lego. In terms of the story, given the limitations of both a lego environment and the DS, it is remarkably complete. All the major events and characters are there, and without much of the annoying Jar Jar Binks. Each level (there are five per film) relates to a particular part of the story, such as the Attack on the Death Star from A New Hope. Connecting parts of the story are told ... more