Now that is a great price point. I am happy to see they did it right.

YES very good pricepoint!!

I still already played and beat the original Lego Star Wars game on the 360. Do I still have to pay for the characters?

mmm...clams

I'm with Kamalot - this is still B.S.

If I played the original game on my X360 i should get the characters for free like every other version of LSW2.

Also - no frickin' Gamerpictures with LSW2? booo.

that's definitely a novel way of dealing with another's criticism or apprehension. next time my brother gets nervous about a meeting with his boss, i'll pelt him with clamshells.

thanks, lucasarts!

Well I'm glad that your fears have been clammed, but what about mine?!

In all seriousness, $3.00 is an insignificant amount of money but there are two things to consider here:

1) Being charged for shit that should have been included from the start.

2) The prequel characters blow super monkey balls - so actually they shouldn't have been included, nor should they be for sale.

I hate when I defeat my own points.

What's the point in even charging for them, then?

Do they expect that many people to pay for the extra characters?

If you played and beat the original Lego Star Wars game on the 360 using the original Xbox version, you would have been able to play with those characters for free on the 360 if you had purchased the original Xbox version of the sequel (which is also backwards compatible). It may not have even have been possible for LucasArts to have been able to read data from an old Xbox game running in BC mode in a new 360 game.

Garbage. I'm already paying $10 more, then they're gonna charge me $2.50 for something that's free on the other consoles?!

On top of that, you may even have to pay with in-game "studs" just to unlock the ability to use these characters. I know the PS2 version rolls like that.

I'd be a happy man if I were a patient man and waited for reviews. The DS version of Lego:SWII is buggy and boring. Forget about $2.50, at least on the 360 you'll get some satisfaction for your $$$. On the DS it's nothing but $34 down the toilet.

I got the game yesterday - love it so far - never played the original. My question is, is there a point to buying the old characters? Will they help in any way like new moves or powers? If it's just for looks, who cares about having them? I'm a bit too old for "but i wanna play as jar jar!"

Way to go LucasArts! I still love you!

Now if we could get Oblivion packs down to the same :P

I bought the original game JUST so I could unlock the characters for THIS game. I don't want to pay you to unlock them! I ALREADY DID!

What I'm curious to know, do you have to pay for them with studs in the game after you pay real money for them??

This is very cool. I went out to like 3 different stores and finally found the original for the Xbox today (only had PS2 and GC versions in all but the last one I checked). I had it for the PC, but didnt play much since I was so frustrated the game would not map a controller properly.

But after seeing this price, this is how content should be priced for "micropayments"... you listening Bethesda?, Sega?, and every other one out there?

Lucas Arts is definately returning to it's roots. Indy game coming, new Sam and Max, hopefully another Monkey Island... and some very promising Star Wars next-gen tech.

"I bought the original game JUST so I could unlock the characters for THIS game. I don't want to pay you to unlock them! I ALREADY DID!"

Its ok, you paid them $20 instead of $2.50 for the purpose you had. :-p

"Its ok, you paid them $20 instead of $2.50 for the purpose you had. :-p"

NVM, I get what you were saying ... silly me!

I still think it's kind of lame that they can't just make it free being the 360 version costs more for no real reason other than that it's on 360 but at 200 points they've got my download. (I got the game off gamerang.com for $42 shipped anyway :p)

This will be the first piece of content I've purchased from Xbox Live since I got the system last November. (Not counting Live Arcade games).

Yeah, I got mine from GameFly for $37.00, actually $32.00 with the $5.00 off coupons I keep getting.

How is Gamerang?

I actually haven't subscribed to their rental service yet, they just happened to have the game cheaper than anyone else (and the shipping was only $1.99 to boot).

From what I've read about them they're a much better rental service than GameFly because they have 4 distribution centers. One on each coast, one in the midwest and one in the mid-south so they get games out much much faster as opposed to GameFly's sole west coast facility.

I keep meaning to subscribe but I'm too impatient and just end up buying everything.

Cool thanks for the info... GF was great at shipping when i first was with them, now it seems that things take 4-5 days to get here and get there vs. 2-3 like when I first started.

You would think that considering you are already paying $20 more than the current-gen for the game that you would at least get something extra or at the very least the same game. Why should you have to pay even more for what is the same thing?

You would think that considering you are already paying $20 more for the 360 version compared to the current-gen version that you would get something extra, or at least the same amount of game. Why should you have to pay even more for what you already overpaid for?

"1) Being charged for shit that should have been included from the start."

Technically, the prequel characters aren't included free in any of the other versions. Not only did you have to buy the prequel game, but you also had to play through it enough to unlock all of the characters you want available in the OT game. Didn't unlock Jango Fett? Well, you wouldn't be able to port him over into this game.

"2) The prequel characters blow super monkey balls - so actually they shouldn't have been included, nor should they be for sale."

I checked it out (yes, I dropped the 250,000 studs to unlock the Use Old Save feature), and they play like the new game's characters. The Wookiee Warrior will rip Stormies' arms out, Jango will chuck thermal detonators...it's all in there. And most importantly, this will allow you to have access to Sith characters before you unlock Darth Vader in the new game, which could take a while. Then again, I sorta cheated on that issue. As soon as I got access to a red lightsaber in the character generator, I crafted a Sith character from scratch, just to have the dark-force powers so I don't have to do a third runthrough just to catch the missing Minikit pieces and Power Bricks, or wait to do Free Play at all until I've unlocked Vader.

Purple Dave:

I should have clarified statement 2.... I don't mean to say that the prequel characters are any different than any other character in game.

I mean all of the characters from the prequels in the movies suck as badly as the prequel movies did. Cheers.