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1 of 0 customers found the following review helpful:
 Worse product ever, 2007-04-12
We bought this game for our grandson's birthday gift. he is 7 years old. It is all he wanted and was so excited. Lo and behold upon opening (we found it requires a special graphic card which costs 5 times more than
the game and we could not find the card. Our grandson ended up broken hearted (thanks a lot) on his birthday. it is useless and we ended up buying him a different game. i feel Amazon has misled the customer. We will never order from Amazon again and you managed to spoil a little boys birthday. We could not even return it as it is opened and can't return open software.
 Lego Fun!, 2007-03-28
This game is really fun, and cute. The characters resemble the lego pieces to the tee. My son loves to play this game, he is on it all day and night long. The cartoon cut scenes are really cute and funny during the story. The two complaints i have is the 2 player mode and the need for a pretty decent video card. The 2 player mode really sucks, it gets very confusing, and the characters have the ability to go off on their own - it's almost like you have to coordinate verbally with your partner for this mode to work right. The other thing is that you need a decent video card - the built in video card to your laptops, or onboard VGA ports to your motherboards - forget about it. It works best with Nvidia chipsets.
3 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Worst PC game I ever installed, 2007-03-19
I have an HP PC from 2006, so the system could easily handle any demands the game made to the hardware. My first warning this game would be terrible was that every time I put the CD in, it would automatically try to install the game! This is just lazy production quality. Then, I would have to go to the directory of the game and delete the SBWIN file every time I wanted to play! I found this tip on the support website, with the actual admission on that page that they didn't know what causes the problem or how to fix the problem but to just keep doing this workaround. Please, can the programmers get any more lackadaisical about their own product?
If I want puzzles, I will go back to my beloved MYST series. Lego Star Wars became nothing more than a confusing morass of exercises in raising blood pressure and wanting to bash in the PC with a heavy hammer. This game has an identity crisis--is it action or puzzles? Tries to do both and fails at both. Because it is something with the "LEGO" brand on it, we thought our kids would enjoy it, but when I couldn't even play or enjoy it you can certainly figure out the kids don't stand a chance.
The manual doesn't fully explain how to play the game, and you are left guessing what to do in each chapter, while your character dies repeatedly and loses it's credits. Then, if you have a sudden flash of inspiration and figure out what you are supposed to be doing, the game hits you with timed runs, or takes control away from you, or only gives you limited control, changes the view of the stages forcing your directional controls to be misaligned with the arrow buttons (your natural intuition is ignored--you are smart enough to know where you want to go, but the game won't let you or makes it exceedingly difficult), and most frustrating of all your own allied characters keep getting in your way to once again insult you with simply pathetic game design.
If you enjoy doing a challenge over and over and over and over and over until you want to vomit, then by all means get this and version II. Then, to "finish" the game by returning to all of the levels of electronic torture, you get to go back with a group of characters to try and collect all the bonuses spread throughout the game. This is something else the manual fails to mention, so you end up wasting time and patience not knowing you have to come back later, with characters specific to the challenges. I won't even get into the character switching nightmare required to accomplish the return to the levels.
Save yourself the frustration, skip this LEGO Star Wars garbage.
May 2008
I've played this thing through several times to unlock the levels for my kids. The SBWIN file issue seems to have evaporated, but this game crashes about 75% of the time frustrating all of your efforts. There is no save game during a scenario to avoid redoing all of your work over and over again. However, a new issue has popped up and the game locks up on specific levels with certain characters during freeplay mode, most notably using Yoda in 'Jedi Battle'. The program becomes so corrupted I've had to uninstall/reinstall several times. However, now that the kids are bored with it, this and the sequel are now permanently removed from my system. Time to get better Jedi games.
6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Before you buy this..., 2007-02-17
Okay, I let my son buy this with money that he saved, DESPITE the poor reviews on Amazon. This game has a serious problem - it only works with a SELECT FEW graphics cards. (It requires something called pixel shader v1.1 - and don't think the fact that your card supports pixel shader v2.0 or 4.0 helps. It doesn't.)
Also, don't assume that the fact that you have a brand new pc with great graphics matters either. We can run the new Lego Star Wars II just fine, Lego Bionicle, all the 3D intensive Tycoon games. The problem with this particular Lego Star Wars game is very unique.
Some people have been able to adequately fix the problem with an unofficial hack called 3D-Analyze. Please do yourself a favor before you buy this and do a web search on Lego Star Wars and pixel shader v1.1. Read the forums with hundreds of accounts of parents (like us) with their little boys crying with broken hearts as they take countless trips to BestBuy trying to find a graphics card that works... or trying to get 3D-Analyze set up to work on their computer (it doesn't work for many people - including us)
Remember - you can't return opened software under any circumstances. So make sure you really look into this before you get stuck like us. Such a bummer!
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE!, 2007-02-16
This is a great game IF...and that is a huge IF...you can get it to install on your particular machine without disk errors or about a million other things that have been reported wrong with this game and the protection software that installs with it. Just Google a Lego Star Wars II search and see the incredible amount of frustration people have had with not only the game but also the lack of support. They really blew it on this one. SAVE YOUR MONEY...you will not recoup your loss.
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