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1 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Can't stop playing, 2005-06-14
This game is really a lot of fun for the whole family. Younger children need help from an adult, but adults will find it a blast. I did need to upgrade my video card for it to work, however.
Delightful game for Star Wars fans of all ages, 2005-06-11
When I first saw this game I thought it was cute but had no idea that a game meant for children would be so much fun to play! I've been playing PC games in a variety of genres for years and I must say this is one of the most enjoyable.
Very easy to learn and easy to play, but there is still enough to do and plenty of bad guys to slice up with your lightsaber to keep things interesting. The 2-player co-op mode is a blast, and is a ton of fun to play along with your kids. The game is long enough to make you feel you've got your money's worth out of it but not too long to frusterate you, and there is plenty of re-play value through the "free play" mode that allows you to instantly switch between all of the other characters with their own attacks and abilities (and there's a LOT of them!).
As for the graphics, I love them. The LEGO style works very well for video games because it provides a sufficiant level of detail while still remaining very fluid and smooth on screen. For those of you who had trouble running the game, I agree with the other reviews that said you just didn't do enough homework on the game. It runs in high-resolution extremely well on my machine, and I'm using a 4-year-old video card that wasn't even the top-end model in its day. All I had to do was download a video driver from Nvidia's web site and I was good to go. If in doubt, download the demo from the game's web site and try it yourself. If it doesn't work the first time, look into the tech help section of their web site. Just don't give up, get mad, and write a bad review of a good game just because you can't get it to work.
Overall, this game is excellent. Both kids and adults will enjoy it wether or not you're a Star Wars fan; although that does makes the experience 10-times better. It's just a very well executed game that plays well and is well worth its price in entertainment value.
 Warning -- Will NOT Run on the average guy's computer!, 2005-06-10
Okay, first I need to say that I'm a computer geek. I know my machines and how to take care of them. I'm not an avid PC gamer though, so my PC is very good, but does not have the latest $599.95 video card on the market. My son desperately wanted this game and, being overconfident in my own geekiness, I bought it without reading the specs on the back of the package. You need a VERY specific video card in your machine or this will not install. Since I'm not about to rush out and drop a super-charged vid card to play a $30 game, this purchase was a total waste of time. **Parents, this game will NOT work on your computer, even if you bought it this year, unless, of course, you have purchased the top of the line gamer's machine. Spare your kids the heartache, and buy it for the Gameboy instead.
9 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
Specs need to be on the product listing, not in reviews, 2005-06-10
This didn't run on my PC and I can't return it. My son, who has been a Lego fan for 6 years, didn't read the product specs before opening his birthday present, so we can't return it either. There were no system requirements describing what kind of PC we needed, it just said the product runs on a PC. Horrible customer experience. Son in tears. Shoppers, draw your own conclusions.
17 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
Just because YOUR pc can't run it doesn't make it a bad game, 2005-06-06
So I just spent some wonderful bonding time with my 7 year old son -- by the way, that's about the beginning of what I'd call the target range of this title -- and I thought I'd come here to share the secret that this is a fantastic, unique game for any parent to spend time playing with their star wars geek kid. I thought I'd write about the brilliant implementation of fighting without real violence (the LEGO characters just break into component blocks like when a real toy gets whacked, no blood or death involved); the nicely done implementation of the game as both impossible to lose (you just keep regenerating, with a deduction of 1000 collected studs) and yet simultaneously challenging, with multiple passes of replayability (you'll want to come back and play levels again to get "true jedi status" and a part to the vehicle you are trying to build in the game, or to get all ten LEGO canisters to build a mini vehicle for each chapter, which you will almost always have to do in "free play mode", meaning the game has replayability assumed); the inclusion of a lot of problem solving despite a very simple interface (just direction movement and a coupel other buttons to push), via figuring out which characters to use for a given puzzle; the wonderful graphics and charming appearance of the lego characters for kids and adults alike; the two player interface which simultaneously reqquires cooperation between two players, yet also allows a second player (the parent, or perhaps the 7 year old who is overwhelmed by some challenge) to drop in and out if necessary. And so on. We got this game friday and my son would not stop begging me to play this; on both saturday and sunday morning he was in our room at 6am! This game has an amazing balance of challenge and forgiveness of mistakes/less aptitude that I have never seen before in a PC title.
But what do I find right away but a bunch of people giving one star ratings to this game because it doesn't play on THEIR computer. HELLO, you shouldn't RATE the game if you've never even PLAYED it! Stop misleading people about the quality of this game, we want to see a rating of the game, not the technical capabiliteis of your personal PC. How sad.
Though these people think this is the #1 most important facet of the game (the only basis of their rating), yet I don't see a single one of them bothering to provide the info on what hardware is required! Well here's the scoop:
1) DESPITE what people say here, the video requirement IS listed on the box. It says "100% DirectX 9 compatible 32meg Direct3D Card with Pixel shader support"
2) and here's a site with further elaboration from and eidos technical support board that there may be a work around even to that:
http://forums.eidosgames.com/archive/index.php/t-51053.html
Finally, I note that the reviewer before me states "Spent an hour with Dell tech support, who told me they don't MAKE a computer this runs on!" For the record, the machine my son is playing this on is an 18 month old Dell 400sc with 256meg RAM and a Celeron 2.0ghz (i.e. very slow) that I bought from Dell for $179 during a Dell sale 18 months ago. The only upgrade I made was repalce the $5 ATI Rage card with an ATI Radeon 9200 card, which I just looked up on pricewatch and found can be had for $19, shipped fedex for free. So Puh-LEASE cut it out with all the "this game requres too much hardware" complaints, it doesn't demand THAT much, and do we really want every kids game to have crappy graphics, why can't you allow Eidos to make one or two games that actaully use to good effect the hardware many of us have. Why do you begrudge other people that enjoyment?
In short: educate yourself before you buy. If you do, you will find that if you have 1) any computer meeting the minimum requirements described above, and 2) and child remotely interested in Star Wars and/or vidoe games, then you have to get this. That's what's happening in the UK, where this is the #1 selling game right now, I read on the eidos web site linked above.
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