The 3D effect is used in a pretty subtle way in Lego Star Wars III, where collected items almost pop out of the screen as they move around the playing field. Still, for the most part, the game looks very nice. The lighting and the texturing is always of the highest quality in the LEGO games and thankfully this is still the case with Lego Star Wars III, although there were times where we felt the developers went a little overboard with the lighting and washing out some of the detail.

One of the coolest things about the art design for the LEGO games is how the team takes standard Star Wars hallmarks and modifies them to look as if they were constructed out of LEGO. The character models are super smooth, the environments are extremely varied and still very lush looking, and the framerate runs at a very acceptable level both in 2D and 3D. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is generally a pretty good looking game. It’s especially nice to see some of the characters from the expanded universe gain a little bit of exposure where they didn’t in the main films too. Considering that the developers really had no other time periods to place another game in, this is probably the next best thing. Taking place in between Episodes II and III, The Clone Wars follows Anakin and Obi-Wan’s exploits throughout this period, filling in a lot of the story between the episodes as well as following the animated series quite closely.

Despite being something I’m a little bit tired of, Lego Star Wars III manages to mix things up just a little bit to make it feel like a more substantial sequel rather than a reskinned reiteration of previous titles. And now, we have a third instalment in the franchise, based entirely on The Clone Wars.

With the release of LEGO Star Wars and its sequel, followed by a compilation title, I was under the impression that we’d seen the last of the Star Wars franchise in LEGO form and that Traveller’s Tales would probably hold off. The LEGO series have always been pretty well thought out, but in more recent times I’ve felt they’ve really begun getting stale.

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