Did you like flying around in a Legofied Jedi starfighter in Lego Star Wars? Stuff like that will be just the tip of the iceberg in the sequel, according to publisher LucasArts🍨.

In a press release yesterday, the company announced that Lego Star Wars II will not only add a slew of n♓ew vehicles - including X-Wings, plastic de꧟wback lizards (complete with chomping action) and a bricky version of the Millennium Falcon - but it'll integrate them into the platform-hopping gameplay in ways that the first game never did.

"Characters will be able to get in and out of v⛎ehicles, and ride creatures," sai൩d Tom Stone, one of the game's directors.

We saw a little of this at E3, with Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan running over civilians in a landspeeder before assembling and driving a couple of AT-ST walkers. It wasn't exactly Grand Theft Auto, but it looked like fun. And if LucasArts is to be believed, it'll go a lot deeper than what we saw, with players able to "run [a lan📖dspeeder] through the 🌺carwash and sell it to a Jawa," who'll then pay more because it's freshly washed, according to producer David Perkinson.

The vehicle-only levels will be more open as wel🦂l, with players free to explore in any direction, instead of being stuck on rails like they were in the first game. Additionally♉, Free Play mode will let you use nearly any vehicle you want in these, to the point of flying the Death Star trench run in a speeder bike.

But to hell with that - we want to do it on a tauntaun. Your move, LucasArts.

To get a look at the Lego rides you'll be able to pilot when the game ships this Sept💎ember, hit the I🥀mages tab above.

June 21, 2006