Parents' Guide to

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

By Jinny Gudmundsen, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 8+

An impishly charming version of Star Wars.

Game Nintendo GameCube 2006
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this game.

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age 8+

Based on 6 parent reviews

ekolson
ekolson Parent of 5, 8 and 11-year-old
May 17, 2013
age 8+

Lacks a tutorial

This is a cute, somewhat fun game. However, it's biggest fault is that it has no tutorial, so I had a lot of trouble figuring out the controls. Also, it contains characters blowing up into little pieces, and it is quite difficult to understand what you are supposed to do.

This title has:

Too much violence
MW3callofduty23
MW3callofduty23 Parent of 13-year-old
April 14, 2013
age 10+

don't buy

i wouldn't get this one get the complete saga

This title has:

Great messages
Too much violence
Too much consumerism
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What’s It About?

The sequel to LEGO Star Wars, last year's sleeper hit, LEGO STAR WARS II: THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY Star Wars II lets players relive the stories of Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, but with a twist: This Star Wars universe is built with LEGO bricks and inhabited by LEGO character look-alikes. The game unfolds in the Mos Eisley Cantina, the infamous galactic bar, from which you can access the three different movie worlds. You blast your way through obstacles and bad guys, use the Force to automatically build whenever you find a pile of LEGOs, and solve a variety of puzzles.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (6 ):
Kids say (8 ):

LEGO Star Wars II continues the tongue-in-cheek humor that so endeared the original game to its fans. Testers were amused by their ability to customize characters in the Free Mode. By interchanging body parts of over 50 playable characters, they were able to create Darth 3PO and Princess Leia Kenobi.

LucasArts has been careful to keep the mechanics of the game easy, so children can play. For example, you are given infinite lives. But the experienced Yodas of gaming will also find a challenge by turning on the special adaptive difficulty feature -- the better you play, the harder the game gets. For Star Wars fan both young and old, don't miss this one -- it's exciting, funny, and makes you think.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about how key scenes from the movies are depicted differently in the game. How do the creators use the LEGO characters to create humor? Is it more fun to play by yourself or with a buddy? What makes this game so much fun?

Game Details

  • Platform: Nintendo GameCube
  • Available online?: Not available online
  • Publisher: LucasArts
  • Release date: September 11, 2006
  • Genre: Action/Adventure
  • ESRB rating: E10+ for Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor
  • Last updated: November 4, 2015

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