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In the name of fun, there's Lego Star Wars, for the X-Box or PS2.

I played the demo in a Jampack, and I'm going to buy the full game as soon as the banana bread is done baking.

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sunburn.livejournal.com

PC also. I played the demo, which features a bit from the start of The Phantom Menace. Really quite amusing.

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kirkjerk.livejournal.com

I played it through a few weeks ago on Xbox; I would only recommend it if you have a game buddy to go through it with. (And then on some of the tougher levels, only one person at a time, or else you both have to not die...) It was cool how you could "collect" and then play the various minifigs, but overall there was too much scrambling around looking for items and sometimes the inability to change the camera angle was a REAL hassle.

BTW sunburn what is your avatar there?

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sunburn.livejournal.com

"Moonbase Commander," from Humongous or Atari, depending. It's a sweet little turn-based strategy game. The thing in the upper left is the hub, which is what everyone starts with. You decide how much of your resource you have, and build new units, which you shoot out using direction/velocity you set in (yes, there can be wind, so it's 3-d ballistics in that respect). Destroy your enemy's hub, is the goal. The bottom left deal is a radar, which removes some fog of war, and the lower-right is a shield. The things that connect them are the essential links -- destroy a unit and everything that relied on that unit to connect to the hub is destroyed.

Apparently, according to people I knew there, it was someone's little pet project that got so good and so popular among the people in the building, that the company decided to polish and release it. It's probably the most balanced strategy game I've ever seen, but hard to set up multiplayer (it didn't come built in, but god-knows-who released a utility that makes it possible if you know the other player's IP). Unfortunately, the release was quite limited. It's worth a bit of effort to find, though, and it's a budget game, so $20 new.