5 Things I’m Most Excited for in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
My garage has been home to a huge LEGO set featuring Mos Eisley Cantina for more than a year. I’ll get around to it someday, but in the meantime I’ll be more than happy playing with my favorite LEGO Star Wars minifigures in the ridiculously epic LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker SagaWhen it goes live April 5, for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S.
LEGO video games have been a passion of mine for many years. I played through many amazing LEGO ones. LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, LEGO Indiana Jones: Original Adventures And LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. They’ve all been great family friendly games full of collectibles, humor, and surprisingly deep platforming. The Skywalker Saga It will be combining this recipe in many exciting and unique ways, when it launches in just a few weeks. Here’s a few of those features I’m most excited for.
New Camera Angle
The Skywalker Saga This will allow us to revisit all the Star Wars movies, and it will also change the way LEGO games are played. Gone are the semi-isometric views of most LEGO video games, where you’d have an overview of the world you’re guiding your minifigures through. The camera now hovers right above your shoulders, making the LEGO gaming experience a 3D action platformer. You can aim your blaster at the target and perform melee combo attacks. This not only shows off the excellent character modeling and highly detailed levels, but ensures this feels like a whole new LEGO Star Wars experience, even if you’ve played through the other games before.
Sidequests and Collectibles
For a long time, LEGO video games have made collecting collectibles a central experience. Some of my favorite moments from this series include arranging levels with unlockable characters, discovering hidden passages and collecting all minikits. This will be true again with Skywalker Saga, but now with a massive open world to explore that’s full of side quests, secrets, and more. As a gonk-droid, I had the opportunity to experience this firsthand. While guiding him through desert canyons, I battled Tusken Raiders to bring him to Weequay and to unlock that minifigure, which I could then use to create a playable characters. With nine Star Wars films worth of secrets and collectibles, I wonder if I’ll be able to find everything this time around…
Playing Through the Movies Once More
This time there’s much more of a cinematic experience while playing the game, as many of the scenes, levels, and dialogue are designed to closely mirror the films. The voice actors do an excellent job channeling Han, Leia and Kenobi in miniaturefigures. Granted, I’ve only played through an early part of “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope,” like fighting stormtroopers on the Tantive IV, guiding 3PO and R2 across Tatooine, and starting a bar fight at Mos Eisley Cantina. If this level of quality carries through the rest of the recreated films, we’re in for a galaxy-sized treat.
Split-Screen Co-op
As my oldest starts to show an interest in gaming, I’m always on the lookout for the next great couch co-op game to play with her. Perhaps this is it. With split-screen couch co-op, we’ll be able to run through all these films together and playing with some of her (and my) favorite characters in LEGO form. I haven’t been able to try this mode out – it wasn’t available in this hands-on session – but it’s a feature I’m really looking forward to trying out when the game comes out.
Let’s Laugh Out Loud
From previous LEGO games, one of the greatest things about this LEGO game is its humor. This line blurs between sight gags, dad jokes, and Easter Eggs. That was on full display here from what I’ve played, from Ben Kenobi looking nervous as Luke asks about his father, to the escape pod functioning as a washing machine, Luke with his blue milk moustache, and seeing Han and Greedo miss each other at point-blank range in the Cantina — the jokes all landed great. If this keeps up, and I’ve seen no reason to think otherwise, The Skywalker Saga might go down as one of the year’s funniest games.
I can’t wait to unlock more of this world when LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker SagaS on April 5.|S on April 5. You can order your copy now LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga today on the Xbox Store so you’ll be ready to start your galaxy-sized adventure on day one. Xbox Wire has all the latest news on your favorite games.
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga
Warner Bros. Games
$59.99
Get day one access when you pre-order the game. Digital editions also include an Obi-Wan Kenobi classic playable character.
In a new LEGO videogame, you can explore all the Star Wars films. Enjoy fun adventures and whimsical humor while immersing yourself fully in the LEGO Star Wars universe.
You want to become a Jedi Knight? Are you a Sith? Are you a bounty hunter, a rebel, or a droid. LEGO Star Wars Saga: The Skywalker Saga includes hundreds of character options from all over the galaxy. You can choose from a wide range of vehicles, whether you’re on the ground or in space. Jump to light speed in the Millennium Falcon, fly the T-47 Airspeeder and battle TIE fighters in Resistance X-wings… it’s the ULTIMATE LEGO Star Wars experience.
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga
Warner Bros. Games
$59.99
Get day one access when you pre-order the game. Digital editions also include an Obi-Wan Kenobi classic playable character.
In a new LEGO videogame, you can explore all the Star Wars films. Enjoy fun adventures and whimsical humor while immersing yourself fully in the LEGO Star Wars universe.
You want to become a Jedi Knight? Are you a Sith? Are you a bounty hunter, a rebel, or a droid. LEGO Star Wars Saga: The Skywalker Saga includes hundreds of character options from all over the galaxy. You can choose from a wide range of vehicles, whether you’re on the ground or in space. Jump to light speed in the Millennium Falcon, fly the T-47 Airspeeder and battle TIE fighters in Resistance X-wings… it’s the ULTIMATE LEGO Star Wars experience.
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