Otherwise - apart from a surprise trip to Endor and a retelling of the end of Return Of The Jedi - it's exactly as you'd expect. For those loyal to the Star Wars editions of the run, this will likely prove a peculiar feature. While this adds even more game to the games, it also makes heading back to previous levels a deeply confusing affair until you're able to find the buried (and never explained) menu options that let you pick (in this case from a star map, with levels scattered around different planets).

A strange choice by the most recent games has been to drop a central hub between story levels, replacing them with many, many 'hubs', some only visited once, each containing their own bespoke puzzles to be completed before being able to move on. It's ridiculous that it's taken this long to freshen up the franchise, but it's great that they have.īeyond that, this is extremely familiar territory for those who've been following along. Gone are the blurry details in the various corners, replaced with sharp, easy-to-understand replacements, including vastly improved on-screen instructions. And even better, the interface has received a desperately needed overhaul. Let's start with the splendid news: After Lego Marvel's Avengers finally saw the series bother to include some regular PC options (you could even run it in a window without crashing your PC!), TFA follows suit and looks absolutely stunning, running on full whack at a crisp 110FPS on my machine. I've played fourteen of them, and there's no way to avoid this affecting my judgement. Then again, it's the fifth Lego Star Wars game, and the eighteenth game in this Lego series. LSW:TFA deserves that awe - it's a beautifully constructed action-adventure game, perfectly designed for families to play together, absolutely enormous and ridiculously replayable, and to boot, extremely funny. Part of me thinks all these Lego games should be reviewed by someone who's never played any of the others before, so the best of the bunch get the awe I think they deserve. In nearly all ways it's a completely splendid game, but even I - the most enthusiastic proponent of this series - am beginning to weary. In other ways it's fastidiously adherent to the tried-and-tested formula. In some ways Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a refreshing of the extraordinarily prolific Traveller's Tales series.

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