Lego Star Wars | 
| From: Aspyr Media
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 5320
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 10970
Model: SSNOWPUS00
UPC: 618870109701
EAN: 0618870109701
ASIN: B0007ZNN48
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Unique world of LEGO toys meets prequel eras of Star Wars universe | | • | Choose from 30+ Star Wars characters; solve puzzles using special abilities | | • | Use The Force; progress through game to unlock new characters | | • | Hidden levels and vehicles; free-play mode adds to game's re-playability | | • | Single-player mode, plus "drop in, drop out" 2-player co-operative mode |
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Product Description
LEGO Starwars MAC For the first time ever, one of the world s most successful film series meets one of the world s favorite toys in an epic new video game. Play the whole story of Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - three movies in one game! From Anakin Skywalker and Yoda, to Darth Maul and General Grievous, control over 30 of your favorite characters. "Drop in/Drop out" two player co-operative play allows a second player to join in or leave the action whenever they want. Use the Force to move and transform LEGO objects, overcome obstacles and defeat your enemies. Authentic audio from Skywalker Sound brings the Star Wars experience to life. Unique "Free Play" mode enables you to play with unlocked characters wherever you like, and switch between them at will. System Requirements:- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later - CPU Processor: PowerPC G4/G5 - CPU Speed: 1.2GHz or faster - Memory: 512MB RAM - Hard Disk Space: 2GB free disk space - Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9000 or better - Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX5200 or better - Video Memory (VRam): 32MB - Media Required: DVD drive required to install and play
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 31
 Fun to play, but has some technical/support issues August 30, 2009
Steven Kan (Los Angeles, CA)
My 5-1/2 year old can't get enough of this game! I have to ration his playing time. Game play gets 5 stars.
Technical/support issues:
1) If you install under "Dad's Account" on your Mac, the game may fail to launch when your Mac is switched into "Junior's Account" because you probably (wisely) made Junior's account a non-admin account, so his account can't write to the application folder. Fix this by logging back into Dad's account, clicking on the outermost application folder (e.g. Applications\Lego Star Wars), pressing cmd-I, and changing the permissions to "everyone: read and write." Aspyr doesn't say anything about this; I had to google to find it.
2) Aspyr and Apple's website don't clearly state the system requirements. It _does_ run on an Intel Mac (we're running it on a 2 GHz Intel iMac) with the available patch.
3) The default keyboard layout for the controls is backwards. Player 2's controls are on the left of the keyboard, even though the player's score and icon are on the right.
4) The default keyboard layout puts the two players' control keys right next to each other, so the players are constantly bumping hands. Makes for some great RSI after a few minutes of playing.
5) It takes about 10 steps to exit the game properly when it's time to quit. Each player has to leave the game, then you have to exit to Dexter's Diner, then you have to exit, then exit again. Each time there are "are you sure?" prompts. It's as bad as trying to leave Ikea!
6) Game saving and level selection are non-intuitive. You have to actually RTFM to figure it out :)
7) It's possible for a kid to get "stuck" in the "Control Options" screen, where you have to hit fn-F1 to restore the default keys and _then_ press Esc to return to the game. Very non-intuitive.
8) As a corollary to #7, Macs default to requiring the "fn" modifier key in order to use the F1 and F2 keys necessary to join the game. Non-intuitive for kids. Aspyr should have chosen different keys.
9) The Display Options screen doesn't display widescreen options. You have to launch the application with the Shift key held down to select widescreen resolution and fullscreen options.
These annoyances almost drag it down to an overall 3-star rating, but the game play really is very good, and keeps it at 4 stars.
 lego star wars is a great family game February 24, 2009
C. Kennedy (Weaverville, CA United States)
This game was a lot of fun to play with my eight year old. We had not played any video games before but were hooked and enjoyed working through the levels together. I bought the logitec precision control pad to go with the game, but it does not work with this game on a mac laptop. It did however work with the other lego games.
 Workaround for problem with OS X install to non-admin users November 6, 2008
John Faughnan (St. Paul, MN USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
[Copied here from a blog post of mine as this will be of interest to any OS X user buying this game]
I really dislike buying desktop computer games. The software quality is poor, and the vendor support is usually lousy.
Unfortunately my 9yo prefers Mac games to Wii games, so when he's earned a big incentive for overcoming a real challenge, we end up with another OS X game.
It's just as well there are so few of them.
The latest problem came with Aspyr's Lego Star Wars (DVD) (Mac) (2005). After I'd installed it my son couldn't play. It started up oddly, with a long video loop. A key press produced a gray screen, then the loop resumed. Finally it crashed.
So what was the problem? There's nothing like this on the Aspyr site and the only update patch is a long delayed and apparently troublesome fix supporting native execution on Intel Macs. I was running the game on my PPC G5 Mac.
I suspected a security/privileges bug. Game vendors, who usually outsource development to very junior engineers in international markets, rarely bother with security models. They build to the usual XP assumption (everyone runs as admin) then port the game to OS X.
Sure enough, from my admin account the game worked. I suspect the game tries to write to the Application folder. That's a no-no. Non-admin users on my system, including my usual account, don't have write privileges in the global Application folder.
I could have reinstalled to the user-specific application folder, but then the other kid accounts on the family machine would need their own installs. Since Leopard gives more control over permissions, I could have installed in a folder that everyone could write to.
In our case though I have an external drive with open space. OS X doesn't enforce permissions on external drives, so after installing there everyone could use it.
PS. On my G5 the game defaulted to lowest resolution. I set it to the penultimate resolution and it worked find and looked MUCH better.
Great game October 15, 2008
D. Tompkins (Amarillo, TX USA)
|My son loves this game. It works well with Mac. I like the game because it is good clean fun.
Great game for all ages February 3, 2008
M. Gershbein (Skokie, IL United States)
If you'd like a game that you can play with your young child at the same time this is a great one. My son is four years old and he absolutely loves this. Characters never die so you can play as long as you like. It also has challenges for the adults. It's cute while also action packed. Clearly, this is not a game for the hardcore gamer but a lot of good fun.
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