It’s not like they’re hanging around any one spot in the movie for very long, after all.
#LEGO STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS SERIES#
Differently from the games in the LEGO series that take place in fixed locations like LEGO Batman: Beyond Gotham ($4.99) and Marvel Super Heroes ($4.99), the missing open world in this version of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens doesn’t bother me all that much. Sharing much with its Vita cousin, it gives you most of the stages of the bigger version, albeit sliced into smaller sections, and gets rid of the open world areas entirely. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Free) is, as usual for iOS, a streamlined take on the console/PC release of the game. With a new Star Wars movie hitting theaters late last year, I knew we would be getting another LEGO game in the popular setting, and my hopes were perhaps a little higher than usual. Unfortunately, we had a bit of a drought for source material up until recently, so the last Star Wars-branded release in the line was 2011’s LEGO Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars. Each new release since has bolted a few little bits on, but this design was made for Jedi, blasters, droids, and X-Wings, and in my opinion, that’s always been the world that fits it best. That formula fits some brands better than others, but lest we forget, it was originally designed for LEGO Star Wars, the 2005 release that got all of this going. They found a winning formula, so why not just kludge whatever’s popular into that framework? Players seem happy enough, bills are paid, it’s smiles all around. While it’s undeniable that these games pay loving homage to their respective licenses (I can’t doubt the purity of any developer who includes Howard the Duck in their Marvel game), it’s equally undeniable that despite the wide differences between those licenses, the games are very similar in terms of gameplay. I’m not even going to touch what’s going on in LEGO Dimensions, but I’m pretty sure we’re only a few announcements away from a Taxi playset complete with Judd Hirsch and Andy Kaufman mini-figures.
Batman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, the Avengers, Indiana Jones, Jurassic World, and Pirates of the Caribbean have all had at least one game made chronicling their stories and characters. We’ve seen a lot of licensed LEGO games in the 11 years since the series of action games from Traveler’s Tales first kicked off.
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