LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Deluxe Edition

My first instinct with any LEGO game is to test how quickly the novelty wears off, and with this entry I kept waiting for that wall. It mostly never came. Traveller's Tales put genuine effort into shaking up a formula that was already showing fatigue by 2016, and the result is a LEGO Star Wars game that feels more varied than its predecessors without reinventing anything. The headline additions are the Multi-Builds system and Blaster Battles. Multi-Builds lets you choose between two or three different constructions from a single pile of bricks, which adds a light layer of puzzle decision-making that cuts down on the door-and-key busywork that has plagued this series for years. The Blaster Battles drop characters behind cover for third-person shooting segments that one reviewer compared to a low-stakes Gears of War: auto-targeting handles the aiming, so challenge is minimal, but the change of pace keeps levels from blurring together. Aerial dogfight sections round out the variety, though they overstay their welcome by the midpoint of the campaign. Character skills feel earned: Rey handles as a quick melee brawler, BB-8 interfaces with machinery, and over 200 playable characters fill out a roster that leans hard on both the film cast and a Return of the Jedi prologue that smartly adds classic-era heroes from the jump. The film's actual cast, including Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, and John Boyega, provided voice work, which is a first for the series and gives the cutscenes a texture previous LEGO titles lacked. The Deluxe Edition bundles in all season-pass content, which includes exclusive story missions bridging the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. These are the best reason to go Deluxe over base: side missions starring a playable Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron rescuing Admiral Ackbar are the kind of canon-adjacent content that makes Star Wars fans lean forward. The humor throughout is sharp enough that adult players will catch jokes the kids won't, and goofy enough that kids will miss nothing by not catching them. The rough edges are real. The PC port launched with stability complaints, and some players reported crashes and audio inconsistencies that patches addressed only partially. Split-screen co-op works and is genuinely fun, though the game is built around single characters with specific skills, which means one player occasionally sits idle waiting for their partner to unlock a path. The cover-shooting segments are challenge-free to the point of being filler, and anyone who has played more than two LEGO titles will recognize every structural beat before it arrives. This is a game that does one thing exceptionally well: it is a reliable, funny, stuffed-with-content co-op adventure that parents and children can actually finish together without either side losing interest. Solo players who are deep Star Wars fans will find the bridge-story missions worth the time. Anyone expecting a mechanical leap forward will find a comfortable shuffle instead.

Alex · Scout Team

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