Episode III Lego Spaceships

games are great! Not to mention hilarious. Plus I'm old enough to remember when playing with legos as a kid was cool. And not those crazy packs you got where you had something practically pre-assembled for you. No. I'm talking about getting a big box of legos and someone saying "Here you go, good luck!" Oh those were the days... So for those who aren't familiar with the concept of Lego Star Wars, it's one of the Star Wars Trilogies as told through legos. Yeah, duh, right? Well these three fighters -- the vulture droid, the tri-fighter, and the jedi starfighter -- are made of legos. And they're not too badly done. They look like lego vehicles as you would expect them to look when made out of knobby plastic. My one complaint is the amazing inefficiency of these models. They use [i]a lot[/i] of triangles! I've had problems with this same thing in the past, so I'm not getting up on a soap box pretending [i]I'm[/i] perfect, but 9000 triangles for a Jedi Starfighter is a little excessive. Way more detail in the mesh than needed, since it won't be deforming. Also the smoothing groups were rather poorly assigned, and this shows very much in-game. All the peg parts look rounded when they should be flat on top. Other than that, I'd just say cut down on the triangles, put your entire skinmap on one image to immensely save on file size, and you'll probably have a fine product. Considering these are all animated, they're definitely worth a download if you like the style and don't mind them lagging your machine ever so slightly. ~Inyri
I haven't played Lego Star Wars, but I [i]have[/i] played Lego Star Wars II. Let me tell ya... if you decided not to get/play that game because it's a kid's game, you're really missing out. Those