If hating this title makes me an outcast, then color me unpopular.

User Rating: 3 | LEGO Star Wars XBOX
Lego Star Wars, contrary to the massive hype and critical success heaped upon it, is absolute garbage for any gamer over the age of 6. For those of you living under a rock for the past few months, let me get you up to speed: Lego Star Wars is a cutesy little kid's game that let's you play through the plots of Episodes 1-3 in the form of various little Lego characters, from Obi-Wan to Darth Maul. It sounds like fun, and by most people's accounts, it is - but don't be fooled. This game is tedium defined.

The basic gameplay takes advantage of only two concepts: there is your standard "attack" button, with attacks varying from character to character, and for your force sensitive characters there is the amazingly vague "force" button. Pressing this will have your character use the force, which in this game can pretty much be summed up as disassembling unidentifiable objects made of lego. You can switch characters on the fly, but thanks to lack of interesting gameplay you really won't have any desire to. You'll likely find yourself doing it only out of necessity, and even then it's more tedious than it should be.

Graphically speaking, the game looks alright. They did a fine job of merging Star Wars environments with the lego brand, and yet they didn't really break any new ground. The soundtrack too is what you'd come to expect from a Star Wars game, and yet the lack of voice acting - a choice they clearly felt fit with the lego style - was out of place in this title and only served to hurt it further.

Gamer's and Star Wars fans alike will find very little to like in this title. Unless you're buying this title for the 10 and under crowd, I suggest steering clear of htis train wreck.