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| Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a video game based on the Star Wars-themed toy line by the Lego Group, taking place during the prequel trilogy (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith), and an end segment from A New Hope although all with some humouristic sidelines. Lego Star Wars was released on April 5, 2005, a full month before the final Star Wars film premiered, which surprised most people since the game contains a few spoilers about the movie. A GameCube version of the game was released on October 26th 2005. A separate Game Boy Advance version was also released. It was developed and published by Traveller's Tales and Giant Entertainment for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Windows, with Griptonite Games developing the Game Boy Advance version. All versions were distributed on April 5, 2005 by Eidos Interactive. A Mac port, developed by Aspyr, was released in August 2005. While billed as a "kid's game", it peaked at the top of the UK charts during early May 2005, losing the spot to the official game of Episode III, but remaining for the rest of the month within the top spots of the chart. A sequel, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, has been recently announced. Gameplay descriptionThere are a total of 56 playable characters. Every playable character, modeled like actual Lego parts (but with far more mobility) has its own unique skills. Jar Jar Binks, General Grievous, and Grievous' Bodyguard, for example, can jump higher than most characters. The 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker and young Boba Fett can crawl in narrow or small spaces where other characters are unable to go. The astromech droids R2-D2 and R4-P17 are able to hover over chasms, open certain doors, and disable other droids, excluding General Grievous. Qui-Gon Jinn can swing his saber four times by attacking in the right pattern, instead of three like the other characters. Yoda has three different modes, the first walking with his cane, the second is floating in his hover chair, while the last is his lightsaber mode where he leaps and flips around while swinging his saber. Darth Maul uses a double bladed lightsaber that is slightly faster, and General Grievous has four lightsabers, but cannot use the Force. All of the different Jedi and Sith have their own unique style of lightsaber wielding, and can use the Force to solve certain puzzles. Any unlocked character can be found walking around in Dexter's Diner (and subsequently getting into fights), the area from which you choose what level to enter, excluding the Droideka. LEGO Star Wars also has a feature called 'free play', which enables the player to play the same level again, but with the ability to switch between characters and thus get into areas containing extras the player was unable to get before. A player can use any character in freeplay. You can even have good and evil team up, such as Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul. The free play option will only appear when the player finishes a level. Levels that are played in vehicles cannot be played in freeplay. Some characters, such as Chancellor Palpatine, the PK Droid, and the Gonk Droid, can't do anything but walk (but are never attacked in the case of PK Droids and GONK Droids), and are therefore less useful than others.Though Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and other characters from the original Star Wars trilogy are not shown in the game, when the player defeats the Episode IV A New Hope level, a hidden level of the game only unlocked when you completly build the Tantive IV, its leaves a message that says "To Be Continued...", leaving a hint that there will be a sequel. The sequel is called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Characters in GameCube, PS2 and Xbox versionsThere are a total of 58 characters for Lego Star Wars on the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox systems. That means that all except two are on the consoles. The two missing is the Tusken Raider and Pit Droid. Every character has an ability with the exception of 3. Chancellor Palpatine can only jump, the PK Droid can only move, and the Gonk Droid is very slow and cannot jump. It is beneficial to have a wide variety of abilities available when in Free Play mode.The 56 characters for GameCube, PS2 and Xbox are:
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