Check out an interesting marketing spin off – Lego Star Wars. It’s a video game based on a toy based upon the first 3 Star Wars. phew.

According to Wired News, it’s not a very challenging game and is rather short, but it has good detail.

There are five or six scenes from each movie that you play through, such as a face-down with Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, or making your way through the droid factory in Attack of the Clones. The goals for each scene vary, but most involve jumping around, hitting switches and blowing enemies into their constituent bricks.

Different puzzles require the actions of different characters. For instance, characters with the Force can disassemble and reassemble some piles of Lego bricks, R2-style droids can open certain doors and fly across gaps, and — sigh — Jar Jar can jump really high. Just to mix things up a little, there’s a pod-racing level, and a couple of arcade-style flying shooter levels, which are marred by iffy controls and a lot of trial and error.

The real appeal of the game is seeing Star Wars characters rendered in itty-bitty plastic form. By the end of the game, there are more than 30 different little guys you can be in Free Play mode.

The good guys are cute, but the evil folks are just adorable. Mini-Maul! Sen. Palpateeny! Bite-sized battle droids! The programmers put a lot of work into giving the characters different ways of walking, running and jumping. The Jedi and Sith Lords even have signature lightsaber moves from the movies. As you unlock new characters, you can see them in the between-adventure area, milling around and getting in fights. If you ever wanted to see three tiny toy versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi fighting with a tiny toy version of Darth Maul, this is your chance.[Wired]

Available for many platforms. Here is XB Lego Star Wars from Amazon.