LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a video game developed by Traveller's Tales that was released on June 28, 2016. The game adapts the events of the 2015 film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens in LEGO form, and includes exclusive content that bridges the story gap between Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. A deluxe edition version of the game, which includes all season pass content, is also available. This is the first installment of the main Lego Star Wars game series not to have been published by LucasArts, due to that company's dissolution.

Prologue
Four years after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebels led by Han Solo on the forest moon of Endor take out the shield generator of the Second Death Star. In space, the Millennium Falcon, flown by Lando Calrissian and Nien Nunb, attacks the inner core of the Second Death Star, destroying it. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker turns Darth Vader back to the light side, fighting and killing Darth Sidious, only for Vader to be fatally wounded and die. On the forest moon, the Rebels celebrate their victory.

Chapter 1
Thirty years later, the Rebels are renamed as "The Resistance" and the ashes of the Empire become the First Order. Luke goes missing and Leia now leads the resistance by herself. Pilot Poe Dameron returns to the base after saving Admiral Ackbar from the First Order, and is sent to the planet of Jakku to meet with Lor San Tekka, who has the map to Luke Skywalker's wherabouts. After arriving, Poe puts the map in his droid BB-8 and sends him away as the First Order, led by Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma, captures Poe for interrogation and kills San Tekka.

Chapter 2
Aboard The Finalizer, Poe is saved by FN-2187 from the First Order and after stealing a TIE/sf space superiority fighter, they crash land on Jakku. Meanwhile, BB-8 is captured by a group of Teedo, only to be saved by a young scavenger named Rey who takes him to her home in the remains of a downed AT-AT.

Chapter 3
Poe seemingly dies from the crash and FN-2187, now renamed Finn comes across Rey and BB-8. However they are soon found by First Order troops and are forced run for their lives. After a fierce fire fight, the three of them escape the planet onboard the Millennium Falcon, which has been abandoned on Jakku for many years.

Chapter 4
While in space, they are picked up by Han Solo and Chewbacca, who had come to reclaim their "home" which had been stolen from them years earlier. Rey and Finn inform them that BB-8 contains a map leading to Luke Skywalker. On board the smuggler's current ship, The Eravana Finn is alarmed to find that Han Solo is smuggling Rathtars onboard the Eravana. Before they can talk any further about getting the map to the Resistance, Guavian Death Gang the board the ship to confront Han and Chewie. Han has Rey and Finn hide while he takes BB-8 to ensure they will not flee with the Falcon. However this turns out to be a big mistake as Bala-Tik recognizes BB-8 from the bounty the First Order has placed on it and reveals that they are aware of his deal with their rivals, Kanjiklub who had also boarded the ship. In an attempt to aid Han and Chewie, Rey tries to shut the blast doors, only to accidentally release the Rathtars from their cages. As a result, they are forced to flee the Eravana while facing attack from both the gangsters and Rathtar.

Chapter 5
They escape both the Guavian Death Gang, Kanjiklub, and Rathtar travel to the planet Takodana, where they meet with cantina owner Maz Kanata, who offers assistance in getting BB-8 to the Resistance. However Finn becomes terrified when Maz Kanata suggests that they fight the First Order and decides he can no longer stay with them if they plan to confront the First Order. He tells Rey he is not with the Resistance and Maz points him to join up with Sidon Ithano if he wishes to leave the plant. Rey is drawn to a vault on the lower level and finds the lightsaber that once belonged to Luke and his father, Anakin Skywalker. She experiences disturbing visions and flees into the woods.

Chapter 6
Starkiller Base fires and destroys the Republic capital and a portion of its fleet. Maz gives Finn Skywalker's lightsaber for safekeeping. The First Order attacks Takodana in search of BB-8. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn are saved by Resistance X-wing fighters led by Poe, revealing that he survived the earlier crash. Leia arrives at Takodana with C-3PO and reunites with Han and Chewbacca.

Meanwhile, Ren captures Rey and takes her to Starkiller Base. However, when he interrogates her about the map, she is able to resist his mind-reading attempts.

Chapter 7
At the Resistance base on D'Qar, BB-8 finds R2-D2, who has been inactive since Luke's disappearance. As Starkiller Base prepares to fire on D'Qar, the Resistance devises a plan to destroy the superweapon by attacking a critical facility. Leia urges Han to return their son alive.

Chapter 8
Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca, and Finn infiltrate the facility to turn off the base's shield. After entering the facility, Finn reveals doesn't know how to deactivate the shield and only came to rescue Rey, forcing the trio to improvise. Realizing Captain Phasma would know, Finn decides on capturing her. After a fierce battle with Phasma and her troops, the trio capture and force her to lower the shield, before dumping her in the trash.

Chapter 9
With the shield down, Poe leads the attack on the base's thermal oscillator, but are unable to damage it and are soon confronted by First Order TIE Fighters.

Discovering she can use the Force, she escapes using a Jedi mind trick on a nearby guard. After Rey reunites with Han, Chewbacca, and Finn they decide to aid the Resistance pilots attacking the base, by detonating explosives within the base. After placing the charges, Han confronts Kylo Ren, calling him by his birth name, Ben, and implores him to abandon the dark side. Ren refuses and kills his father, enraging Chewbacca, who fires and hits Ren. He then sets off the explosives, allowing the Resistance to attack and destroy Starkiller Base.

Chapter 10
The injured Ren pursues Finn and Rey to the surface. A lightsaber battle between Ren and Finn ensues, leaving Finn badly wounded. Rey takes the lightsaber and uses the Force to defeat Ren, before they are separated by a fissure as the planet begins to disintegrate. Snoke orders Hux to evacuate and bring a wounded Ren to him. Rey and Chewbacca escape with Finn in the Falcon. On D'Qar, the Resistance celebrates while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's death. R2-D2 awakens and reveals the rest of the map.

Epilogue
Rey flies to the aquatic planet Ahch-To with Chewbacca and R2-D2. She eventually finds Luke and presents him with the lightsaber he had lost along with his hand, years earlier during the battle with his father on Bespin.

Return of the Jedi

 * After Darth Vader's Mask was removed by Luke, he has Anakin's head, but Luke shakes Vader's helmet to get Vader's headpiece.

Description
Much like Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy before it, the game is a humorous take on the film which it is based. However, unlike the previous games, the characters have full spoken dialogue, some of which is archived recordings of that from the films, while new dialogue is provided in the game-exclusive content. Several of the film's original actors, including Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Anthony Daniels provide the new dialogue for their respective characters.

The gold bricks which require a rapid-firing character to destroy, as well as the ability to command troops from Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars return, as does the ability to travel to different planets.

The game is the first LEGO game to introduce Multi-Builds, where players can use available bricks to build new paths, and Blaster Battles, where players can use their surroundings to fight back against the First Order. In addition enemies can now build, allowing stormtroopers to support each other with reinforcements, air strikes, and heavy artillery, adding another layer of danger to the game.

The fighter-based levels have also been redesigned, and are very similar to those of the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series, in which the ships can move in all directions in a large, open environment, rather than being constrained to movement on a horizontal plane as with previous games.

The game has a total of six additional unlockable missions. One mission explains how C-3PO got his new red arm, while another will show how the rathtars were captured and brought to Han Solo’s ship. The new levels have a basis in Star Wars canon according to the game's staff.

The season pass includes exclusive characters and three new levels: Poe's Quest for Survival, First Order Siege of Takodana, and Escape from Starkiller Base.

Development
Development of the game began in 2015, with the game demo released in mid-June 2016.

Additional missions
Some of the missions available in the game are:
 * Rathtar Hunting – Follows Han Solo and Chewbacca's voyage to capture the ravenous Rathtars.


 * Lor San Tekka's Return – Uncovers secrets behind Lor San Tekka's journey to the Jakku Village.


 * Poe to the Rescue – Details Poe Dameron's daring rescue mission to save Admiral Ackbar.


 * Crimson Corsair – Explores how the notorious Outer Rim pirate, the Crimson Corsair, foiled the plans of the First Order.


 * Trouble Over Taul – Follows the events leading up C-3PO's acquisition of his new red arm.


 * Ottegan Assault – Reveals a puzzle piece to how the Resistance and the First Order find Lor San Tekka on Jakku.

DLC mission
Exclusive to the PS4 version:
 * The Phantom Limb - A sequel to "Trouble Over Taul" that tells the story of how C-3PO obtained his new red arm.