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5/5 |
Exellent Game; A solution to the graphics card problem!
(June 25, 2008) |
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This game is magnificent. Everything about it spells ingenuity, attention to detail and imagination. The multiplayer mode can be superfluous fun, the adaptive difficulty always presents you with a new challenge and the vast amounts of unlockable content means that there is here a nearly endless source of replayability.
Many people have said that there is a problem with graphics cards not being able to support pixel shader. Well, a program called 3d Analyze will simulate this and many other graphical features that your card is incapable of handling (however, is you simulate too much the game will be very slow, as your C.P.U. is having to do more work). Download the program from this adress: 'http://download-free.programas-gratis.net/php/download.php?id_programa=675 &software-3D-Analyze-2.16a' (type '3d analyze' into Google if this does not work) , click 'select' and find the installed 'Lego Star Wars' in your programs folder, tick the box that are next to the text about pixel shaders, tick the box that says to save it and click 'run'. If this does not work, fiddle around with it, such as ticking diffrent boxes and saving it in diffrent ways. Note that this does not work for all graphics cards and does not work if your sound card or processor are inadequate. |
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1/5 |
Lego Star Wars disappointment
(April 13, 2008) |
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I bought this for my son but it wouldnt load as we didnt have the correct graphic card that supports pixal shader. It didnt state this when I purchased the game unfortunately! Make sure you check you have the correct software! |
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1/5 |
Lego Star Wars
(October 16, 2007) |
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I bought this lego game after checking carefully that we had the correct operating system to run it. My 6 yr old was overjoyed when it arrived and installed. However it doesn't work as we didn't have the correct graphics card with pizel shaders on it - whatever that is! They should make it absolutely explicit that this is required on the game details. Very disappointed 6 yr old and very frustrated mother! |
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4/5 |
Possibly the best Star Wars game available...
(October 11, 2007) |
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Now I have sympathy for those without pixel shader 1.1 cards, but in 2006 I'm amazed most people didn't have them (and indeed even more amazed people baulk at the idea of paying £30 for a basic one). If you had a video card worth its salt then it'd have 1.1 anyways (after late 2005 Pixel Shader 2 had become pretty standard fare).
As for the game - having played quite a few of the old Lucas Arts games produced as movie tie ins, this one tops them all. The Jedi Knight games are good, and nothing beats slicing and dicing endless storm troopers...but then you get to do all that in this game with the benefit of:
A - playing a myriad of characters.
B - puzzles (admittedly childlike and basic, but fun platform based stuff anyway)
C - retro-gameplay with graphics as good as they need to be to display the items.
D - a fully rendered authentic movie musical score.
Its downers? Well it's a bit short - and it's a kids game really, but there was certainly scope here to make a truly grown up game. After that it's just fun all the way. |
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5/5 |
Totally absorbed by a 3+ game !!
(August 08, 2007) |
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So, we all know the story of George Lucas's Star Wars saga, we've all seen the movies, bought and collected the toys - far too many in my own life - and all put our hands to our heads when Jar Jar Binks just did not die horribly in the first thirty seconds of the Phantom Menace ! So how was the greatest story ever told (apologies to Christians throughout the world) going to be translated into Lego ?
The answer ? Superbly ! This is a fantastic little game in my opinion, even though I prefer playing games like Obscure, Doom 3 and Silent Hill - I think working for my company for 23 years is slowly making me realise working for the Umbrella Corp might be a better idea.
It was a total break from the norm, an entertaining and refreshing, silly piece of non-sense. Any game that you can put a moustache on R2-D2 cannot really be held too highly in the Mastermind fraternity !
The game is divide into the 3 movies and you can play your way through any of the three - you do not have to finish them in any order, so you can go straight to `Revenge' , if that's your thing. Each movie is divided up into 5 or 6 sub-levels - these you do have to play in order.
The idea of the game is simply to go through the levels, defeat your enemies, collect lego studs and kits, and achieve `jedi' status to gain super-kit bonus's. As you meet fellow characters, you can take control of them and those you defeat you can buy - with exorbitant amounts of studs - in Dexter's shop after finishing the level, to replay any level with purchased or `met' additional characters. This is where the designers of the game have put a lot of work into the planning of the game, as some of the collectables can only be reached or obtained by characters you meet in later stages of the game. And as much as I hate to say it - this is where Jar Jar Binks really comes into his own.
Other really fun characters to control are the extensively jumping and powerful Yoda, General Grievous with his multiple sabres and Darth Maul - lets face it, we all want to play the bad guy !
The publishers of this game advertise it as being suitable for children as young as 3+, and yeah I guess a very small child could well move the characters around the screen and fight a few battles, but - and I would not put my house on it with new generations - I doubt very much that there is anyway that their eye to controller co-ordination would allow them to finish it. I don't play many video games - if I am honest I am slowly working my way through cheap pre-owned ones - and I have to admit I struggled a little on some of the levels. They will especially not find the Pod-Racing and Battle over Coruscant too easy.
Other good features of this game are that when you die (in exploding lego pieces), you do not have to start the monotonous trek from the beginning of the level again, you simply lose a few studs and carry on from where you left off - in fact if your quick you can pick up what you dropped. Even some of the really useless characters have uses, children that can crawl through vents to collect items, Droids that can fly short distances, troopers that can fire grappling hooks to other high levels. Fighting with Tea-cups ? Two player drop in and out allows Dad to play along too.
I never thought that I would say this, but I found myself totally addicted to 3+ rated game !
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