Once you’re in a level you’re greeted with a very competent action-platformer in which each character brings different attributes that interact with the world in varying ways. For my money, nothing will ever beat the sight of Darth Vader holding up a photo of Anakin and Padme in order to try and explain to Luke that he is in fact his father.
That doesn’t stop the game from being funny though – in fact a lot of its appeal is its humour, and in the strange, often goofy and slapstick ways it needs to get the plot of its source material across. Each is framed by cutscenes that are conducted without any voice acting – instead our little plastic protagonists grunt and mumble their way through the events of the plot this probably makes it a bit too obtuse for anyone who isn’t already a fan of the films, but I suspect it’s most likely Star Wars fans that are playing this anyway. From a hub world, players select levels based on the events of each film. LEGO Star Wars would set the standard for practically every LEGO game to come. In fact, the game was released a whole month or so earlier than the film, meaning players got a general look at the events of the film well before it ever hit cinemas! “Why not the good films?!” Presumably the answer is in timing – LEGO Star Wars released in the same year as Revenge of the Sith, and naturally there had been a whole slew of Star Wars LEGO kits since Star Wars became popular all over again. LEGO Star Wars follows the plot of the Star Wars prequel trilogy – The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. 2005 however saw the release of LEGO Star Wars, and the real moment in which LEGO’s video games became a routine fixture in release calendars and a franchise of licensed games which has continued until today. Though their first dabble into licensed games came with 2001’s LEGO Creator: Harry Potter, it was a sandbox game with little in the way of actual structured gameplay. It was licensed properties though, that would launch LEGO into new heights of success, in both minikit terms and with regards to their games. For me though, LEGO games in my childhood were defined almost exclusively by LEGO Rock Raiders, a 1999 RTS based on a set I have a real fondness for the awesome dirty sci-fi setting, with run-down mining machines and attacking rock monsters still elicits a rush of wonderful nostalgia. LEGO Racers was another popular release, using the unique buildable properties of the blocks to let players construct cars before racing them.
LEGO started making games in the ‘90s – the 1997 release LEGO Island was perhaps one of the most well-known of the early games, a kind of early Minecraft in which you were free to roam around a LEGO world and build stuff. There are some LEGO games which predate LEGO Star Wars but truth be told, not one of them made the impact that this game did. Released Nov 2007 | Developed: Traveller’s Tales | Published: LucasArts LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (NDS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 ) In fact, it’s almost certainly cheaper to play the LEGO games than it is to buy actual LEGO.
I then completed the troubleshooter, and now able to start up the game using the Desktop shorcut, without having to always select Run as Administrator :) Also, don't forget to leave Daemon Tools Lite running, with the Lego Racers ISO file mounted (to simulate the CD-ROM).We all know what LEGO is, yeah? Of course we do the tiny plastic blocks you can slap together and build anything you want are ubiquitous and it’s no surprise at all that they’ve made their way into the land of video games.
I then selected "troubleshoot program", then selected "The program worked in earlier versions of Windows, but won't install or run now", Then I choose "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)". I then right-clicked the "LEGO Racers" Desktop shortcut (the icon is a little lego wheel!) and selected "troubleshoot compatibility".
I ran the Lego Racers Installation setup. Then I found the specific "Setup" Application file in the "Lego Racers" folder (NOT the "setup" BMP file or the "SETUP" Configuration settings file). I mouted the ISO file in Daemon Tools Lite. Which then left me two items (one being a "LegoRacers" folder, and the other being a "LegoRacers" ISO file.
It worked for me! I had to use a file archiver to properly unpack the zip file (I used 7zip).