Absurdities of LEGO Star Wars 2 Monday / 12.04.06 / 01:21AM / Joe
One of the best features of LEGO Star Wars is the ability to re-play levels with the characters of your choice. This leads to lots of non-canon silliness. Probably some spoilers near the end.
Han Solo and his best pal Greedo steal a Rebel ice cream truck. Maybe this is what led to their famous falling out.
Darth Maul and Jango Fett investigate Echo Base and find it full of zombies! Or as we like to call them, Prequel Fans.
Grand Moff Tarkin supervises as a skeleton rides a tractor on Dagobah. He didn't take shrapnel in the destruction of the first Death Star just to have some damn kid screw up his lawn!
Boba Fett and Bossk cavort in the Mos Eisley money fountain. In case you're wondering how you're ever going to afford that 30 million cost for the 10x money multiplier power-up, this is how.
Here's our final 100% clock: over 37 hours. All accomplished without cheat codes of any stripe. (We did look up the location of some of the sleazier Minikits, however. In some levels, that Minikit Finder is shit worthless.) Note the multiplier in effect, x3840. That's more than you can imagine!*
I did the Vehicle Challenges mostly by myself, as having a second player actually makes them impossible. And note to anyone afraid of the Super Story modes... you do not need to finish in under one hour to get the gold brick! Seriously.
And I loved the Bounty Hunter Missions, even if they were pathetically short by design. Organizing a parade of little Boba Fett, Greedo, Bossk, Dengar, 4-LOM and IG-88 was hilarious. But what about Zuckuss?
LEGO Star Wars 2 is the worst best game we've ever played. If they make another one, they better damned well fix the awful co-op camera, the floaty controls, and the utter uselessness of light sabers.
*I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit. |