LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy is a video game announced by LucasArts on September 12, 2006, based on the Star Wars-themed toy line by the LEGO Group, and the sequel to the highly successful LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. The game will be released concurrently with the highly-anticipated DVDs of the original, unaltered films of the original trilogy.

Description
While the original was based on the prequel trilogy, the sequel gives a humorous look at the three movies of the original trilogy, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It is scheduled for release on September 12 of 2006 for the Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, GameCube, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and PC.

Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance are to be in a portable style as the original was on the Game Boy Advance.

The game will be published by LucasArts (replacing the original's Eidos Interactive), and developed by Traveller's Tales, who was also responsible for the original. It will feature a total of over 100 playable characters, 56 of them unlockable by having a saved game from LEGO Star Wars on the memory card or hard drive. The game will also include several new features including vehicles, character-specific abilities and customizable characters.

Known features
Please note, that some of this information was collected from multiple sources such as Gamespot and Wikipedia and hasn't been seen in official material from Lucasart's Official Website.


 * The game will take place during A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.


 * Unlocking a character or vehicle will also unlock the LEGO blocks that comprise it. These blocks can be mixed to create custom, new playable characters or vehicles.


 * Some characters will have unique special abilities (along with the general special abilities that were present in the first game, such as Force push). Here are some examples:
 * Chewbacca: Able to rip arms off.
 * Bounty hunters, such as Bossk, IG-88, and Boba Fett: Able to throw thermal detonators.
 * Princess Leia: Slapping enemies in the face.
 * Darth Vader: The signature Force Choke.
 * Emperor Palpatine: Force Lightning.
 * Luke Skywalker (Episode IV): Able to punch enemies.
 * Lando Calrissian: Martial Art attacks when close to enemies.
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Mind Trick.
 * Han Solo: Able to punch enemies.
 * The more you play, the harder the game gets. The difficulty level will ajust to suit the player. It has been confirmed by interviews that the "adaptive difficulty" feature can be turned on or off.


 * Vehicles that you build in minikits are accessible to play with. You can also select a vehicle for free play.


 * If you have saved data from Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, then you will be able to import the characters of Lego Star Wars onto Lego Star Wars 2, bringing the character total to over 100. Adding all the selections together, there is a large roster of characters.


 * Every character (except droids) will be able to build with LEGO bricks, with the Force or no force.


 * Vehicles are accessible in almost every level.


 * There is a new power-up brick, which upgrades the abilities of certain characters, such as double-strength lightsaber attacks.

Just like in the first game where levels were accessed by entering doors in Dexter's Diner, levels in this game will be accessed in the Mos Eisley Cantina. The player will be able to customize characters, save them, and then use them in Free Play Mode. The player will be able to buy hints, characters, secret features, and most likely go outside for street fights.
 * Levels

The levels are listed below. They are:

Chapter 1: Secret Plans
Playable Characters: Princess Leia, Captain Antilles

Just like in the movie, the action begins aboard the Rebel blockade runner, the Tantive IV. Darth Vader and a platoon of stormtroopers have boarded the ship, and the player must guide Leia and Captain Antilles through the ship to find R2-D2, who will carry the stolen plans for the Death Star off ship.

For the first stage in the game, this is fairly long. The Tantive IV is not a tiny ship, and the level design reflects that. As the player works his/her way through the corridors, he or she will frequently be required to assist Rebel troopers, who are fighting back the invading stormtroopers.

Chapter 2: Through the Jundland Wastes
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Tatooine), Ben Kenobi, C-3PO

Playable creatures: Bantha, Dewback

After fleeing the Tantive IV, it isn't long before R2-D2 and C-3PO are captured by Jawas and then purchased by Luke's uncle Owen. When R2 runs off to deliver Leia's message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke goes after him and is rescued from a Tusken Raider attack by that crazy old hermit, Ben Kenobi.

At this point in the game, Luke doesn't have his father's lightsaber or any mastery of the Force, so it's up to old Ben if the player needs any Jedi business taken care of. As the player travels through the Jundland Wastes, he/she must fend off Tusken Raiders and Jawas. Running loose all over the level are dozens of Womp Rats, which are great for a little target practice.

Chapter 3: Mos Eisley Spaceport
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Tatooine), Ben Kenobi, R2-D2, C-3PO, Han Solo, Chewbacca

Playable Vehicles: Landspeeder, AT-ST

Playable creatures: Dewback

Boss: Garindan

This level introduces the player to how vehicles are handled in the game. Unlike the original where the vehicle stages were on rails, the player can now freely drive Luke's landspeeder around the town. If he/she hops out to go exploring, he/she musn't stray too far from it or Jawas will come along and whisk it back to the beginning of the stage.

A variety of extra goodies can be found by thoroughly exploring a level. After the player is done using the landspeeder, he/she can sell it at a used vehicles lot. At the end of the stage, the player meets up with Han Solo and his faithful Wookiee partner Chewbacca, where the player can take control of them as well.

Chapter 4: Rescue the Princess
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (stormtrooper), Han Solo (stormtrooper), Ben Kenobi, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO

From Tatooine, it's off to the Death Star to save Princess Leia before she's executed. Since the Death Star is crawling with stormtroopers, it would be best to try and blend in. To that end, Luke and Han have donned a couple of stolen stormtrooper uniforms, but in this game, they don't have helmets. Luckily, whenever the player gets to a door that only stormtroopers can get through (there are cameras mounted near the doors), there tends to be a helmet dispenser nearby. When Luke and Han are wearing the helmets, enemy stormtroopers will ignore them, until one of the heroes starts shooting. In addition to stormtroopers, the player will also face off against TIE fighter pilots and Imperial officers. Near the end of the stage, the player must provide cover fire for a computer-controlled Ben Kenobi as he attempts to shut down the tractor beam that is keeping the Millennium Falcon aboard the Death Star.

Chapter 5: Death Star Escape
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (stormtrooper), Han Solo (stormtrooper), Chewbacca, Princess Leia

This level is the second half of the player's romp through the Death Star. With Leia freshly sprung from her cell, the player begins the stage in the Death Star's trash compactor. Once he/she escapes, it's just a matter of blasting his/her way through the hordes of stormtroopers until he/she reach the Falcon. This level contains a fairly complicated puzzle that involves multiple character swaps and lever switching.

Chapter 6: Rebel Attack
Playable Vehicles: X-Wing, Y-Wing

The supposed final chapter in A New Hope is entirely composed of the assault on the Death Star. The first portion of this level is seen from a near top-down view, as the player maneuvers his/her X-wing across the battle station's surface, shooting down TIE fighters and dodging enemy fire. You will occasionally encounter force fields that block his/her path. To disable the forcefields, you need to pick up a proton torpedo from a dispenser that comes out of the ground. The torpedo will follow behind your engine until you press the fire button and launch it at the forcefield generators. The player's X-wing is also capable of pulling off a few advanced moves like loops, barrel rolls, and 180° turns.

The second half of the stage is the familiar run down the Death Star's trench. The viewpoint shifts to the traditional behind-the-X-wing view. You can even flip around in the trench and go the other way, but to finish the level you must go straight. Once the player outruns Darth Vader and his TIE fighter escorts, the player must drop their proton torpedoes into the exhaust port. The only catch is that the exhaust port has a shield! As the game gets closer to its date release, you'll find out how to disable it.

Chapter 1: Hoth Battle
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Hoth), R2-D2, Rebel trooper (Hoth)

Playable Vehicles: Snowspeeder

Playable Creatures: Tauntaun

For years, fans have been begging LucasArts to let them experience the battle of Hoth in a video game. Finally, the company has listened, and we now have a chance to see what it's like taking on the giant AT-ATs with a mere tow cable and plenty of sarcasm on my part. But while we've seen Hoth in plenty of Star Wars games before, we've definitely never seen a LEGO version of it, have we? This entire stage is played in a snowspeeder. During the first segment of the stage, you pilot the craft over Hoth's surface, taking out both probe droids and AT-STs. You will occasionally come across a passageway that's blocked off by a wall. To destroy the obstacle, you must track down a machine that dispenses bombs. Using the snowspeeder's tow cable, the bomb is dragged behind the ship until it is thrown at its intended target. The weight of the bomb actually affects your control of the speeder. To get any distance when you throw the weapon, you'll have to get a bit of a windup first. Just don't fly the bomb too close to a probe droid -- the obnoxious little robots can steal them from you. In later parts of the stage, you'll have to take on a few AT-ATs. Just like in the film, you'll want to trip them up in the snowspeeder's tow cables, but to truly finish them off, you'll have to drag a bomb and detonate it on the downed Imperial walker.

Chapter 2: Escape From Echo Base
Playable Characters: Han Solo (Hoth), Princess Leia (Hoth), Chewbacca, C-3PO

Playable Creatures: Tauntaun

"Imperial troops have entered the base!" With the Rebels' shield generator destroyed and snowtroopers pouring into their icy headquarters, it's time for the good guys to beat a hasty retreat. The stage begins with Han and Leia running through the base while fending off attacking snowtroopers. Some passageways are blocked by walls of ice, but some quick building with piles of LEGO bricks will create a heater that melts the walls and allows our heroes to get on their way. You'll occasionally burst into a room and take waiting snowtroopers by surprise. If you look quick, you'll see that the invaders are warming their little, plastic behinds on heaters like the ones you've built. Eventually, you meet up with Chewie and 3PO, and you'll have to get past a fairly elaborate puzzle that involves building a snowmobile to help the protocol droid reach an elevated platform. If only li'l Anakin programmed jumping into 3PO when he was built, this whole thing could have been avoided.

Chapter 3: Falcon Fight
Playable Characters: Millennium Falcon, X-Wing

With Echo Base lost, it's time to make sure that the Rebels can get past the Imperial blockade in orbit around Hoth. Pilot the Millennium Falcon through the swarms of TIE fighters and TIE interceptors and make your way to the real targets -- the massive Star Destroyers. Luckily, you don't need to take out entire ships, just their gun turrets. Fend them off long enough for the Rebel transports and escort frigates to escape. With your allies out of danger, Han flies the Falcon into an asteroid field to ditch the pursuing Imperials. Getting through the field is made even more dangerous by the asteroids embedded with explosive mines. By shooting these booby-trapped rocks, you'll discover a proton torpedo hidden within. These torpedoes must be collected and used to blow up massive asteroids that block your way. Keep in mind that you'll also have to deal with attacking TIEs while all this is happening.

Chapter 4: Dagobah
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Pilot), R2-D2, Luke Skywalker (Dagobah), Yoda

Boss: Darth Vader

As in the film, Dagobah is where Luke begins to learn the ways of the Force. During the first part of the stage, Luke (still in his X-wing jumpsuit) and R2-D2 must maneuver their way through the planet's swamps in order to find the mysterious Jedi master named Yoda. Piles of LEGO bricks can be built into ladders and bridges to assist you, and you'll have to deal with wild creatures like bats and giant snakes. Once you find Yoda, Luke's training begins (and he gets a change of clothes). Since the farm boy's powers are still weak, carrying Yoda on his back will allow Luke to use Force powers as you continue through the swamp. Eventually, Luke's powers manifest themselves, and he demonstrates them by building a tractor out of LEGO bricks. We don't remember that part from the movie either, but it was still pretty funny. And yes, you will enter the cave that is strong with the dark side of the Force and confront the vision of Darth Vader.

Chapter 5: Cloud City Trap
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Bespin), R2-D2

Boss: Darth Vader

The duel with the phony Vader was just practice for the real deal here. Luke and R2 arrive on Cloud City and find it crawling with stormtroopers. The duo starts working their way through the city, using R2 to open up any locked doors as they go. Soon, they encounter Vader in the carbonite freezing chamber. As Luke and Vader fight, you can take control of R2, who can interface with a computer terminal that causes vents in the floor to expel gases. If Vader is standing on one of the vents, he'll begin coughing and become stunned for a moment. Use this chance to take control of Luke once more and deliver a few lightsaber blows. Eventually, Vader will flee, forcing you to chase after him. You'll end up fighting the Sith Lord a few times throughout the city until the final, climatic scene in the city's central air shaft. I won't spoil how the non-speaking LEGO Darth Vader reveals Luke's true parentage to him, but it sure got a chuckle out of me.

Chapter 6: Betrayal Over Bespin
Playable Characters: Lando Calrissian, Princess Leia (Bespin), Chewbacca, C-3PO

Boss: Boba Fett

Episode V's final chapter backs up the timeline a bit as we follow Han and Leia's adventure in Cloud City. The stage begins with Han being frozen in carbonite and carried off by the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Now, Leia, Chewbacca and Lando must chase after him in an attempt to save their friend. As you make your way through the corridors of Cloud City, you'll have to fight stormtroopers and dodge the fleeing citizens. Since this is your first chance to play as Star Wars' resident ladies man, Lando Calrissian, I suggest you take full advantage of it. In addition to his blaster, Lando has some smooth kung-fu moves for close combat. Since the game follows the plot of the movie, Boba Fett eventually escapes with the frozen Han. After that, you must lead the crew back to the Millennium Falcon so that they can escape the Imperial threat.

Chapter 1: Jabba's Palace
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Jedi), Lyn Me, Princess Leia (Boussh), C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca

Boss: Rancor

This level begins outside Jabba the Hutt's massive palace on Tatooine. At first, you control Leia and Chewbacca as they infiltrate the palace to find Han Solo, who was frozen in carbonite in the Empire Strikes Back portion of the game. Inside, you'll encounter the fierce Gamorrean guards who can not only block your blaster fire, but also take more hits to kill. An effective strategy is to distract the guards by building piles of stray LEGO bricks into a radio. The guards will be too busy rocking out to the music (complete with using their axes like guitars) to attack you.

Eventually, you'll find Luke, R2 and 3PO. You'll need all of their unique abilities to work your way through the palace. There are some places that only bounty hunters can access, so keep an eye open for helmet dispensers, which will place a Boushh mask over Leia's head, completing her disguise. When she's wearing the mask, she also gains the ability to throw thermal detonators -- a move that's unique to bounty hunters.

Once you free Han, the game alters the movie's storyline a bit. After Jabba catches the gang freeing Han, he tosses Luke, Chewie, and Jabba's singer Lyn Me into the Rancor pit (while, Leia, whom Jabba has other plans for her and Han is forced to watch). To complete this stage, you must figure out how to defeat the giant creature.

Chapter 2: The Great Pit of Carkoon
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Jedi), Han Solo (White Shirt), Chewbacca, Princess Leia (Slave), Lando Calrissian (Jabba's Palace Guard Disguise), R2-D2, C-3PO

Boss: Boba Fett

When you need something digested, and you only have 2,000 years to get it done, there's only one place to go -- the Great Pit of Carkoon on Tatooine. There, the mighty Sarlacc will get the job done in half the time. With his beloved pet rancor dead, the extremely cheesed-off Jabba has loaded up his prisoners onto a skiff and taken them out into the desert to toss them into the Sarlacc's gaping maw. Luke, however, has other plans, and after a hilarious opening cinema, he and his pals fight their way to freedom.

During the first part of the stage, you work your way across the skiffs, fighting off guards both on the skiffs and firing at you from Jabba's luxurious sail barge. As you work your way towards the sail barge, you'll have one last face-off against the dreaded Boba Fett (Boba Fett? Where?). Onboard the barge, you must battle your way through the interior and up to the top deck, where you can take control of Princess Leia in all of her blocky, metal bikini-clad glory. Find the main cannon on the top deck, and use it to blow the barge to pieces.

Chapter 3: Speeder Showdown
Playable Characters: Princess Leia (Endor), Luke Skywalker (Endor)

Playable Vehicles: Speeder Bike, AT-ST

From Tatooine, the action jumps to the forest moon of Endor where you control Luke and Leia during their high-speed chase with a group of scout troopers. This level switches between on-foot segments and vehicle portions where you ride Imperial speeder bikes through the dense forest.

The ultimate goal of this chapter is to bring down a shield that is blocking your way to the Imperial garrison set up on the planet. To do that, you must take out a few mini-shield generators and wipe out a whole lot of speeder bikes. During each of the vehicle segments, you race through a looping track full of downed logs, ramps and laser turrets. There are a set number of scout troopers that you must take out before switching back to an on-foot segment. Here, you'll have to dodge Imperial troops and hijack an AT-ST in order to destroy the generators. Then, it's back to racing.

Once the shield is down, you can proceed further into the level. We won't spoil what happens when you reach the garrison, but it's one of the coolest and most surprising segments of the game.

Chapter 4: The Battle of Endor
Playable Characters: Chewbacca, Han Solo (Endor), Princess Leia (Endor), Wicket the Ewok, C-3PO, R2-D2

Playable Vehicles: AT-ST, Speeder Bike

This chapter's title might make you think that you'll be fighting the space battle over Endor, but this stage is all about the ground battle. Han, Leia, Chewie and the droids are joined by that lovable little Ewok, Wicket, as they make their way through the puzzle-filled Ewok village down to the ground below. Now, you have to get the gang to the Imperial shield generator that is projecting a protective barrier around the new Death Star that hangs in orbit over the forest moon. Unfortunately, an army of Imperial troops and AT-STs stand between you and victory. Once you get inside the generator, things don't get any easier. There's a relatively involved puzzle sequence to complete before blowing the thing sky high.

Chapter 5: Jedi Destiny
Playable Characters: Luke Skywalker (Jedi), Darth Vader

Boss: Emperor Palpatine

With a large battle taking place on Endor's surface, this chapter deals with a more personal battle inside the Emperor's throne room on the Death Star. In order to keep the "two players at all times" system in place, the game fudges the movie's storyline a little. Darth Vader now senses the goodness inside him a bit earlier and helps his son destroy Emperor Palpatine in the epic lightsaber battle.

As the fight progresses, the Emperor moves all around the throne room, forcing Vader and Luke to give chase. Palpatine's favorite move seems to be his powerful Force lightning, which he'll shoot at whichever character you're controlling. The Sith Lords in the original LEGO Star Wars performed similar attacks, and the lightning can be dodged as easily as those moves were. Simply let the Emperor target your character, and wait until he is about to shoot the lighting. Then at the last second, switch to the other playable character. Palpatine will harmlessly blast your partner, allowing you to hit him with a quick swing from your 'saber.

After defeating the dark lord, you'll witness the surprisingly poignant LEGOized redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Who knew that plastic bricks could emote so?

Chapter 6: Into the Death Star
Playable Vehicles: Millennium Falcon

The game's final level once again places you in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as you battle to destroy the second Death Star. Before taking on the fully armed and operational battle station, however, you must knock out a few Star Destroyers that stand in your way. To do this, you must destroy the two shield generators atop the crafts' bridges. The Falcon's standard lasers aren't up to this task, so you must swipe some proton bombs from the many TIE bombers that are flying around. Just blow up a bomber and fly over the glowing orb that it leaves behind. The stolen weapon will trail behind the Falcon, allowing you to launch it at the vulnerable generators. Destroy both of them, and the entire vessel goes down.

After wiping the Star Destroyers out -- all of them -- it's finally time to head into the Death Star. As you weave through the claustrophobic interior of the Death Star, you'll be forced to fend off attacking TIE fighters. Take note of the bomb dispensers that are conveniently stationed at a few key locations as you fly down into the station's core. You'll need the bombs provided by those machines to blow up barricades that impede your progress. The core won't be easy to destroy, however. A barrier surrounds the Death Star's vulnerable bits, and that must be taken out before the final shots are fired. Once the battle station starts to blow, it's a race against the explosion as you fly the Falcon back out into space.

Bounty Hunter Mode When all bounty hunter characters have been unlocked, a special mode consisting of ten levels is unlocked.

Levels

 * I:
 * II:
 * III:
 * IV:
 * V:
 * VI:
 * VII:
 * VIII:
 * IX:
 * X:

Secret Level
When you unlock everything, a secret level becomes available (like the Tantive IV level in the first game.)

Level Basis

 * Each movie has at least one vehicle level.
 * Each level has at least 2 playable characters
 * Each movie has 2 bonus levels: one vehicle level and one Jedi level.

Vehicle levels
Episode IV: Chapter 6: Rebel Attack (X-Wing)

Episode V: Chapter 1: Hoth Battle (Snowspeeder), Chapter 3: Falcon Fight (Millennium Falcon)

Episode VI: Chapter 6: Into the Death Star (Millennium Falcon)

Confirmed/playable
This is a list of characters that have been confirmed to be playable in the game. During E3 2006, it was confirmed that 50 characters will be unlocked by playing through story mode. The rest will have to be purchased using studs, the game's currency. All the characters will have an evasive action and a melee attack. Also, if you have data from the original LEGO Star Wars, you can use the 50+ characters unlocked in that game, including those dropped from the final version within The Original Trilogy too. All of these characters can be used to create a custom character which is made up of a combination of 9 pieces (Hat, head, body, cape, arms, hands, weapon, hip and legs) except, of course, those who don´t have any, such as R2-D2 and Womp Rat. Some characters have a limited amount of pieces useable in Customisation Mode, such as General Grievous (Head + Cape).

Unconfirmed/unplayable
This is a list of characters that have been announced or seen already, but are either not playable or not confirmed to be playable.

Vehices
Players can jump into vehicles and move about the levels with them. Unlike the original game, in which vehicles were on rails, vehicles will be able to move freely wherever the player wants.

The player's health hearts are replaced with metallic hearts, representing the health of the vehicle.

When a player completes a mini-kit set, he/she can drive that vehicle and use it in freeplay.

These are the vehicles that the game has been announced having as of now:

Most ships will be able to collect Proton Torpedoes, or bombs to help them complete the level. For example, the Millennium Falcon might shoot an asteroid and uncover a proton torpedo. If a huge asteroid comes along that the Millennium Falcon cannot destroy with lasers, they might use the proton torpedo to destroy it so they don't crash. Or, a snowspeeder could drag a bomb to a downed AT-AT to destroy it, once and for all.