Dean's World

Now here's a surprisingly fun little video game for PS/2 (or Xbox) I picked up today to play with my son: Lego Star Wars.

Whoever thought this up should get an award. In it, you play a video game that runs through the basic storyline of Star Wars episodes 1 through III. But everything in the game, including the characters you play, are made out of Legos. Which is both clever marketing and much fun: it's like you're playing with animated Lego toys. It's also pretty much "family friendly," because it's hard to take violence seriously when all you're doing is breaking apart Lego toys.

The game play is simple and fun, and lets a second player drop in or drop out at any time. I really like that--I wish more video games these days would allow that in fact.

You don't have to be a Star Wars geek to have fun with this. You just have to enjoy a fun video game.

(Thanks Kevin.)