LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Preview

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At one point, the LEGO games from developer TT Games were running through popular IP at a rapid clip. Featuring a core concept that would be familiar to fans but mechanics that varied based on the property, TT’s LEGO games were at their best when they delivered family-friendly fun. But whether it was brand fatigue or gamer fatigue, the release cadence has since slowed down dramatically.

For 2022, TT Games is going back to the IP that arguably set everything in motion: Star Wars. With its first foray into the galaxy far, far away, TT Games was able to set the blueprint for almost every game to follow. Now, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is ushering LEGO games into a new era, complete with a graphical and mechanical overhaul.

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Last week, Game Rant attended a virtual gameplay demonstration that highlighted many of the changes that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is bringing to the table. Gameplay still has a lot of the same DNA as those earlier TT Games releases, but the camera has shifted to a third-person perspective for both melee and ranged combat. TT has also expanded the glue that holds each Star Wars movie (all 9 are represented in The Skywalker Saga) to be more like an open-world “universe.”

The best way to describe gameplay in LEGO Star Wars is to say that it has matured with its audience. Where the more distant camera helped give the earlier LEGO games a mass appeal,LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga thrusts players into the action more than ever before. Whether it was fleeing down the hallways of the rebel ship as Princess Leia or battling Count Dooku as Anakin Skywalker, there is a heightened action on display that honors the sci-fi roots of Star Wars, even in LEGO