LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars 3D
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Product Summary
Brand: LucasArtsAudio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Manual)
Published: 2011-02-28
Release Date: 2011-03-27
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Model: 023272342654
Publisher: LucasArts
Product features:
- For the first time, players will experience their favorite stories from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, retold in the amazing LEGO world that fans know and love
- Play wacky mini-games that turn the Star Wars universe on its head like Snowball Fights and Droid Volleyball
- All new Lightsaber to climb walls, Jedi Force leaps and all new clone weapons
- Fight in fully three dimensional space battles
- Unique 3DS content including Street Pass wireless functionality and Play Coins to unlock new characters and get purchase bonus content
Video Game Reviews of LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars 3D
Customer Review: LEGO Star Wars III for 3DS
Summary: 4 Stars
I finally got around to beating LEGO Star Wars III earlier today, so here are some thoughts on the game for those who haven't picked it up yet. For reference, I'm someone who had never played a LEGO game before:
- First of all, I think it's important to throw out that I really enjoyed this game, and plan on finding 100% of the secret items.
- I think the game is fun, but mindless (in a relaxing way), and unfortunately easy. You have to swap between characters on the fly to solve puzzles, and if you don't quickly memorize what on screen signal goes with what kind of character, the game offers a hint for you to solve the puzzle. Still, while it was rather simple, there was also never a moment of frustration from not having any clue how to progress, and swapping characters was fluid enough to add to the fast-paced action of the game. Once you unlock all the different kinds of characters, if you simply destroy everything and "build" every pile of interactive LEGO pieces, you are essentially guaranteed to find every secret item.
- Although entertaining, ground combat is extremely simple as a Jedi/Sith, and somewhat unwieldy as a ranged character. As a Jedi/Sith, you can simply mash your attack button and you easily deflect all oncoming laser fire. As a ranged character, the automatic aiming system is just awkward enough to make both dodging shots and accurately returning fire at the same time a little difficult. Although some of my favorite characters are ranged, I never really found myself using them as much as the melee characters, as they were just so much more efficient and simple to control, no matter how much I wanted to run around as Boba Fett. The thing that I find the most disappointing about combat is that there is never any use of the Force to attack enemies directly; no force push, no force choke, no lightning bolts. You can time blocking blaster bolts to reflect them though, that's pretty sweet. There are not many different kinds of enemies, and I can see why people often complain that dispatching them becomes repetitive. It's always just a matter of cutting them down, blasting them, or using an environmental object (i.e., having a rock crush an enemy). Sometimes you have to do a special attack to drop their shields, and for as few Destroyer Droids as you see, it was really disappointing that several times you just can just one-shot them while they're in their rolling form.
- Air combat is awesome. It is fast paced, and while easy (the auto-target is a little ridiculous), it is totally sweet shooting rapidfire lasers at stuff and blowing it up. The 3D effect looks fantastic during air battles, and it has a rather Star Fox-ish feel.
- Lightsaber combat versus a Sith boss is probably the most awkward aspect of the game. I think that you can make it less awkward by blocking and doing these little standoff moves (i.e., clashing your sabers together and having to perform a mini- quick time event), but the game never really explained how to do so, so it was always just a really awkward button mashfest for a few seconds until the boss lost enough HP to trigger the next phase of the fight.
- There is essentially no penalty for dying. You go through the game collecting LEGO studs, which you can use to unlock secret characters through purchasing them (i.e., Yoda is 250,000 studs). When you die, you lose 1,000 studs... but you also drop a blue stud worth 1,000 studs. So, when you die, you almost immediately respawn in the same place and you can pick up that stud and therefore suffer no loss. What is more, is that once you unlock a stud bonus multiplier, you can actually gain bonus studs from dying. For example, if you have multiplier of x4, if you die and lose 1,000 studs, you can gain 4,000 from picking up the blue one you drop. Kinda weird. There are no game overs, and once I figured out how to play the game my only deaths came from missing jumps or standing unknowingly where the interactive environment was secretly ready to crush me (i.e., standing in the spot where you pull down a huge rock).
- There are 83 different characters to unlock, ranging from the original trilogy to the prequels, also including ones from the Clone Wars TV show that I had never seen before. Something very important to keep in mind is that if you're trying to unlock all of your favorite characters, to save a LOT of time, keep in mind that eventually you can unlock stud multipliers, so whereas in the beginning it took me FOREVER to save up enough studs to unlock, say, Jango Fett, eventually I had a 48x multiplier and was able to easily rack up millions of studs without even trying. In fact, the highest multiplier you can get (since they stack), mathematically would be x3840. Wow. In any case, once I unlocked some multipliers, I went very quickly from struggling to scrape together enough studs to afford a single character to simply buying out the entire store.
- It sucks that you can't save during mid mission, although I think that when I was replaying a mission I saw an option for "save and exit." Also, the game has frozen on me several times during gameplay, and several times during loading screens, which is not cool. Also, the loading times are a little excessive.
All in all, a pretty enjoyable game, although I hear the console versions are much better. I plan on finding 100% of the hidden items, although I'm not sure how much replayability it will have. It has several built in minigames that are a little interesting, but nothing fantastic (Droid volleyball, a snowball fight, a space battle versus starfighters [the best one], lightsaber baseball, tc.) The 3D is fairly subtle, and makes platforming a little tricky, but is a nice little addition. The game tries to be funny, and is pretty cute at times, like a particular gag at the very end of the game that I won't spoil, but other times not so much.
Description of LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars 3D
The beloved and critically acclaimed LEGO Star Wars franchise is back and coming to homes around the world in 2011. The third sequel, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, combines the epic stories and iconic characters from the Star Wars universe and hit animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars? with all-new gameplay features. Players will enjoy brand new game mechanics allowing them to create, control, and explore in a galaxy far, far away like never before. Promising breathtaking visuals as well as new characters and levels, the game also features the signature tongue-in-cheek humor from the LEGO universe. With more than 10 story-based missions and lots of bonus content spanning the entire Clone Wars era, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will allow fans to endlessly explore and laugh their way through the Star Wars galaxy in the most humorous, accessible, and action-packed LEGO game to date.LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is a single player Action-Adventure game for Nintendo 3DS that builds on the long recognized family-friendly fun and quality gameplay that is the hallmark of the LEGO video game franchise. Utilizing the groundbreaking capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS (sold separately), the game features 3D renditions of fan favorite scenes from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and seasons 1 and 2 of the hit animated Clone Wars TV series, which players participate in via the easy to pick up, block oriented LEGO video game play mechanics. The 3DS 3D effect can be adjusted* to the player's liking via the 3DS' 3D Slider functionality and improved top LCD display. Additional features include: new characters, mini-games, 3D space battles, 3DS Street Pass wireless functionality and more.
20 Story-Based Missions and 40 Bonus Levels
The beloved and critically acclaimed LEGO Star Wars franchise is back and coming to homes around the world in 2011. The third sequel, LEGO Star Wars III:The Clone Wars combines the epic stories and iconic characters from the Star Wars universe and hit animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars with all new gameplay features. Players will enjoy brand new game mechanics allowing them to create, control and explore in a galaxy far, far away like never before. Promising breathtaking visuals as well as new characters and levels, the game also features the signature tongue-in-cheek humor from the LEGO universe. With over 20 story-based missions and 40 bonus levels spanning the entire Clone Wars era, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will allow fans to explore endlessly and laugh their way through the Star Wars galaxy in the most humorous, accessible and action-packed LEGO game to date.
Like fire across the galaxy, the LEGO Star Wars III: Clone Wars shall spread.
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Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 3DS is a groundbreaking hardware release that brings 3D gaming to the handheld market for the first time. The fourth major release in the DS product line, the Nintendo 3DS utilizes 3D Slider functionality and an improved top LCD display to present a glasses-free 3D effect in compatible games, while giving players the option to moderate the effect as they see fit. Taken together with additional features including full analog control in 3D game environments, motion and gyro sensors that transfer the movements of the handheld into the game, 3D camera functionality, an adjustable stylus and full backwards compatibility and you have not only a must-have system, but a revolution in handheld gaming.
Key Game Features
- For the first time, players will experience their favorite stories from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, retold in the amazing LEGO world that fans know and love
- Play in levels spanning the entire Clone Wars era, including seasons 1 and 2 of the hit animated TV series
- Play wacky mini-games that turn the Star Wars universe on its head like Snowball Fights and Droid Volleyball
- All new Lightsaber to climb walls, Jedi Force leaps and all new clone weapons
- Fight in fully three dimensional space battles
- Unique 3DS content including Street Pass wireless functionality and Play Coins to unlock new characters and get purchase bonus content
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*Use Parental Controls to restrict 3D mode for children 6 and under.
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