Whether your childhood dream was to be Han Solo, Princess Leia, or even the whiny Luke Skywalker, all your light saber fantasies will come true in Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Lego Star Wars II, the second part to Lego Star Wars I, is rated E for Everyone and is a one to two player game for Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, and other video game platforms.
You begin your journey in the Mos Eisley Cantina, Han Solo’s seedy hangout. Player one is the hip tossing Princess Leia and player two is Captain Antilles. From the cantina you will be able to play the 6 chapters in each of the Star Wars episodes: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
As you play through each chapter in story mode you will be given new characters. These characters range from C-3PO to R2-D2 and Lando to Darth Vader. As you collect more studs you will be able to buy more characters at the cantina bar. You can purchase bounty hunters, Stormtroopers, the ghosts of Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Skywalker’s father, and other characters.
You can also customize the characters that float in the bacta tanks in Mos Eisley. You can go with the already created Princess Dave or you can put Darth Vader’s head on the sexy Princess Leia body from Return of the Jedi.
The humor in Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy borderlines on the blasphemous (for those who take the Star Wars mythology seriously). You will get to blast the arms and one leg off of C-3PO and leave him with only the use of his head to bang open the consoles at the doors. You will also come across Stormtroopers wearing only their helmet and undies. Sometimes the Stormtroopers are taking a bath and other times they are just jogging in their undies for the heck of it. There is also the over confident Princess Leia. Whenever a Stormtrooper, or anyone else for that matter, gets too close to her during battle she puts away her blaster and starts slapping her opponent to Lego bits. Chewbacca, on the other hand, will rip the arms off Stormtroopers if he gets too close to them.
Once you start playing Lego Star Wars II you will find it is nearly impossible to stop. The game is addictive. There’s so much to do, from playing story mode to free play with your favorite characters, to finding all the mini kits and power bricks that unlock extra features (such as invincibility). You simply won’t be able to get enough of this popular video game.