The new Lego Star Wars game reveals extra plot details

After watching The Force Awakens seven or eight times in a row, Star Wars fans were left with many questions.

Now it looks like the upcoming Lego game based on the film will answer a few of them.
Why did C-3PO have one red arm? What was Han Solo doing on a ship full of multi-tentacled bitey ball monsters?
These questions, and more, look set to be answered in the extra levels on Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
It comes out at the end of June for just about every console you care to name.
Now Warners have released more details about it, including a list of these new "backstory" levels which promise to bridge the gap between episodes VI and VII.
Among them, Rathtar Hunting, which we're told will follow "Han Solo and Chewbacca's voyage to capture the ravenous Rathtars."

Image caption Who let the Rathtars out? Who? Who? Who?

Then there's Trouble Over Taul - which promises to tell us "the events leading up to C-3PO's acquisition of his new red arm".
Players will also get a chance to catch up with a character we didn't really get to know for long in the film: the mysterious Lor San Tekka, played by Max Von Sydow.
There's one level where you play as him, and another that promises to tell us how the Resistance and the First Order find him in his little hut on Jakku.
And if you were a fan of the ultimate bromance in space, you'll be pleased to hear there's lots more from Poe Dameron too, in a level where he has to rescue everyone's favourite prawn-headed military mastermind Admiral Ackbar. As the admiral himself says in the trailer, hopefully it's not a trap.

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Just about the whole cast of the film have voiced extra dialogue for the game, with the usual generous dose of humour that we've come to expect from the Lego franchise.
Even Harrison Ford sounds like he might be enjoying himself, asking if there are "Wookiee cookies" loaded onto his ship.
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong'o, Carrie Fisher, Oscar Isaacs and more are all on board too, which means the cut scenes are likely to be - apologies - a cut above the average game.

 

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Some gameplay videos have appeared online as well.
It looks like there are the usual puzzles which can occasionally make Lego games a slightly frustrating experience (ooh, of course, how obvious, I use the bricks to build a gun, then turn into BB-8 to charge it up, then use it to destroy the spaceship).
But we like the look of "blaster mode" which kind of turns the game into Call of Duty, only with Lego and Stormtroopers. And the levels in space seem fun too - what's not to like about flying around in a Lego TIE Fighter?

Source: BBC Tech News