So a long long time ago, a group of people decided to start making Lego video games based off popular franchises, and I kinda wished they would of done this sooner! Really though I think that this game could of came out any earlier than on the Gamecube/PS2. The graphics look just fine for Lego standards, the controls are pretty set in stone for controllers by that point. And you get a good amount of time to play the game to, as they had the space on the discs to tell the stories from multiple different movies, and not feel rushed or bloated. Lego Star Wars came out on March 29th, 2005 on the Gamecube, and it hit the ground running! And went to spawn a whole bunch more games on the Lego Star Wars side, and much in many other franchises. So lets see if this is a true Jedi Hero or more of a Jedi Zero.

{Story/Difficulty}
So I'm going to NOT spoil the plots to the Prequel trilogy, if you want that, go somewhere else! Instead I'll just give a brief overview of the beginning of each of the Lego game Episodes and you can just go from there! The first Episode starts off with you as Qui-Gon Jinn and a young Obi-Wan Kenobi. You must go through the federation level and must go from there to meet the likes of a young Padmee and Anakin Skywalker. Episode 2 starts with adult Obi-Wan and his droid R4-P17 on planet Kamino trying to find out the wonders of Clones. In this one you meet many great people like Boba Fett and Count Christopher Lee. Episode 3 has adult Anakin and almost old man Kenobi in their spaceships going after Vulture Droids and General Grevious's ship holding Paplatine, and Counter Christopher Lee. In this Episode we learn of the 'High Ground' and possibly more. The Episodes do a fairly accurate retelling of the Prequel films in Lego form with much Lego humor. I kinda feel like if you have never watched the movies you 'might' get the stories being told, but I do feel like its a lot more fun to know the stories ahead of time. And that may be why later games use full blown voice clips from movies, which this game does with sound effects. But I always loved how older Lego games could tell a story without actual words, and they actually had to use their brains for jokes. Which I feel this game excels in! So much great humor, so much slapstick, so much Lego, so little time to go over it! I also couldn't even begin with all the jokes in this game! You just have to see it yourself while you play the game to get it 100% I feel. They do kinda cut a lot out, like Anakin and Padmee's awkward conversation in 2 (and something about hating sand to!) Or the amazing character dynamics between Anakin and Obi-wan from Episode 2-3. But it has its own charm that the movies could never get, as they are not Lego! That's where I'm going end with the talk of the story of this Lego adventure. If you think that a Lego game is a hard game, well, I'm sorry for your loss. As Lego games by nature are made for way too old and way too young of people to play. You cant even really die in this game, instead its way more stress endusing. Which is the dropping of your Lego studs which physically kills me in real life! The jumps you have to make or the platforms you have to platform are never to taxing either. The camera might get in your way in one of those situations, but that's not exactly a normal difficulty thing, just a mistake, and not a happy one either. And its a bit hard to get lost to as not only does the game do a great job of railroading you through the levels. But the Lego Studs you pick up also do the same. And next to the 'final boss' all bosses are just as simple as spamming attack on them. The only Level I never want to do is the Gunship Level on Geonosis I just constantly die when I do this Level and I don't really know why.Also i dunno how useful Co-Op mode is, if you and the other player doesn't play on the same wave link, not like i know anything about that! But it still hypothetically makes the game easier. So really as long as you just keep holding forward and spamming buttons you should literally beat this game. I dunno how else easier it could be next to literally playing the game for you! So for all that ill give the difficulty a 4 out of 10, next to half paying attention to what your doing the game is just way easy. And in terms of the story ill give it a 7 out of 10, its a pretty accurate retelling of the Prequel movies, so its fun if you want a humorous retelling of them.

{Graphics/Sound}
So I'll just come out and say it. Everything should be made out of Lego's in real life, If it was, then dang it we would still have Harambe! But for realz, next to the fairy well hand painted backgrounds, everything is made out of Lego's in this game. The characters, the ships, the ground you a lot of times walk on! It's all Lego's and its all amazingly remade in lovely details. Next to Shell-Shading I dunno what else looks so unique as the Lego look. OK Yohistaka Amano's art is also up there, but that's not here! Nothing in this game really feels out of place, even Yoda's kinda creepy face looks not as creepy as Original Trilogy Yoda. The biggest problem with characters is that a lot look pretty samey. I mean almost everyone looks the same in terms of how their body shapes, and there's like 6 versions of characters like Anakin and Padmee and Obi-Wan an-.......... ANYWAYS! Next up is talking about the great ship designs! All are just great once again! From Anakin's ship to the HUGE Federation ships that you shoot down in Episode 3 they sure took a lot of time to make the designs for these and I just give them all the love and attention they deserve whenever I see them. I don't really think any of them look to samey or anything, But there isn't as many ship designs as there are characters, so there's a lot of times where you gotta kill like 8 of the same ship type. I feel that one is WAAAAAY worse in Lego Star Wars 2 but its kinda noticeable here as well. The entire concept that when you die you EXPLODE! into little Lego bits is a great touch, so is the Lego pieces just laying around for you to build into stuff into interact with. From the graphics to the sound this game has it all. But to be honest, the sounds are just the already amazing sounds and music from the Star Wars movies. I cant complain and say its bad, cuz its not, its just to my knowledge no new music is made for this game, outside of some of the gag sounds and music I suppose. Even though its all reused sounds and music, they are used in the best of ways. Like Jano Fetts and Rd-D2's death cries are forever etched into my brain for all the right reasons. And while you do hear the iconic opening....... 46 times, I dunno if I ever get tired of hearing it. They might of reused the wonders of the Star Wars soundtrack I still feel the sound deserves a 8 out of 10. And the graphics for sure get a 9 out of 10. Like I said the concept of something going Lego is an amazing concept and looks perfect in this game.

{Addictive/Depth}
Going back to the Co-Op I feel like there is an endless amount of fun to be had in this game. From just doing a Level together to doing the Podrace level or just running around Dexter's Diner, which is a completely original location only found in the original version of this game. And if you just play by yourself then you can have loads of fun as well. From just trying to 100% the Levels so you can get all the cool ships out in the parking lot. Or unlocking all the characters/Power-Ups. There's a good amount to do. Like I said you can unlock ships to look at, or use in Freeplay, which is a game mode to help you 100% the game. You get them from Minikits which holds the pieces for them. You cant get Red Blocks or Gold blocks in this game, but I kinda feel like anything past those collectibles was always way to much padding. And really just being able to use different characters in Levels they shouldn't be in or using ships the same way, will never get old. So I feel you can just do a normal playthough and watch all the cute cutscenes and what not. Then go back through again with all the extra characters and ships to 100% those Levels. Then once you get the Stud increase X111,111,111,111,112 or whatever the highest is and just go back through the game until you max the counter out! OK you might not do that last one but I do feel like you probably could get 2 or 3 good playthroughs of Lego Star Wars.I feel like for this game the addictiveness and the depth go hand in hand. This game for sure has a great grasp on how to keep the depth of a game addicting while not being either too shallow or having too much to learn. By the time you get tired of 100% it you'll be like 85 to 95% done, and once you finish it, then everything just feels right! Just to walk about and see everyone from Episode 1.2. and 3 wondering about Dexter's Diner, with Dexter trying so hard to keep up with drinks! And then to walk outside and see all the ships out there, its like all the characters drove in together in them! It's either kinda cool or I'm kinda ADHD, one of the two! So for the addictiveness I'll give it an 8 out of 10, and for the depth I'll give you a 6 out of 10.

And that is how I got the High Ground, Young Padowan. The guys over at TT games sure made a banger with this game that is for sure! Only about a year later they popped out Lego Star Wars II. And many years later they came out with the not so good (in my opinion) Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for the Wii, and no 200% of my hatred is not from the lack of Dexter's Diner, its only 175%. The other 25% is that everyone uses red lasor blasters and no blue! But to get back to this little masterpiece that I've been blabbing about. This game will always hold a Lego piece chunk of my heart and I'll never need it back from it! I've played this game so many times and I will so many times more! If you haven't then you really should if your a Lego fan, or a Star Wars fan, or just a fan of having fun! This is a 9.2 out of 10 game and well worth your time and money.