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Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars vs Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is an action-adventure open-world game from Traveller's Tales (2011) while Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is an action-adventure game from Traveller's Tales (2005).

Quick answer: Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars has the higher Metacritic, 76 to 75.

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

2011 · Traveller's Tales

7.5GamingPickz Score

$19.99

Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

2005 · Traveller's Tales

75Metacritic

What each one is

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is filed under Action-Adventure and Open-World. In contrast, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game under Action-Adventure.

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will allow fans to explore endlessly and laugh their way through the Star Wars galaxy in the most humorous, accessible and action-packed LEGO game to date.

Description from its Steam store page

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a 2005 action-adventure video game based on the Lego Star Wars theme of Lego construction toys, and the first installment in the Lego video game franchise developed by Traveller's Tales, which would develop many future Lego titles from that point on. It was first released on 29 March 2005. It is a Lego video game adaptation of the prequel trilogy of George Lucas’ movie franchise of the same name: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, with a bonus level from A New Hope.

Description from Wikipedia

Story, characters and reception

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Plot

See also: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film) and List of Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes The game adapts the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and various episodes from the first two seasons of the television series of the same name , without dialogue and with many humorous deviations. The prologue level is based on the Geonosian Arena battle from Attack of the Clones . (Wikipedia)

Reception

Reception The game has received positive reviews. GameSpot gave 6. 5/10 for PC, PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 and Wii while 6/10 for Nintendo 3DS . (Wikipedia)

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
Plot

The plot of the game is a humorous Lego retelling of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones , and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , as well as a bonus level with the opening of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope from the viewpoint of Darth Vader aboard the Tantive IV . ^ Cite error: The named reference nytimes was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Birks, James (5 April 2020). (Wikipedia)

Characters

Lego Star Wars contains a total of 59 playable characters for LEGO Star Wars; 56 in the GameCube, PS2, Xbox, and PC versions. The three missing are Gungan, Tusken Raider, and STAP, playable in the GBA version, though the Gungan and STAP are only available through cheat codes. The playable characters are modeled like actual Lego parts and, on dying, they fall to pieces and also lose studs. (Wikipedia)

Reception

Reception The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . In Japan, where the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 versions were ported for release on 7 July 2005, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40 for the latter, and 28 out of 40 for the former. The Sydney Morning Herald gave the PlayStation 2 version four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying, "This Lego retelling of the prequels is… (Wikipedia)

At a glance

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone WarsLego Star Wars: The Video Game
GamingPickz Score7.5/10—
Steam ratingOverwhelmingly Positive (95%, 9,285)—
Critic aggregate76/10075/100
Price$19.99Unknown
Install size——
Steam DeckverifiedUntested
Released20112005
DeveloperTraveller's TalesTraveller's Tales

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars vs Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Lego Star Wars III: The Clone WarsAction-adventure open-world game
    Lego Star Wars: The Video GameAction-adventure game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Lego Star Wars III: The Clone WarsLEGO, Action, Adventure
    Lego Star Wars: The Video GameNo descriptive tags

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars ✓Metacritic 76
    Lego Star Wars: The Video GameMetacritic 75

    Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.

  4. Content and scale

    Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars9,285 reviews
    Lego Star Wars: The Video Game—

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars$19.99
    Lego Star Wars: The Video GameUnknown

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The better reviewed of the two: Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Metacritic 76)

Where they differ

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is also

LEGOActionAdventureLocal Co-OpMultiplayerFamily Friendly

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is also

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is family-friendly and approachable. Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone WarsLego Star Wars: The Video Game
Minimum GPU——
Minimum CPUIntel P4 2.24 GHz—
Minimum RAM0.5 GB—
Install size——

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars · Lego Star Wars: The Video Game.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 1 accessibility feature for Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and 0 for Lego Star Wars: The Video Game. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and Lego Star Wars: The Video Game in scope?

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars has drawn 9,285 Steam reviews. Lego Star Wars: The Video Game lists little scope data.

Is Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars or Lego Star Wars: The Video Game better?

Neither carries enough reviews for us to score it reliably, so we do not call a winner. The table above shows what each does have.

Which is cheaper, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars or Lego Star Wars: The Video Game?

One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.

Should I get Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars or Lego Star Wars: The Video Game?

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars has the higher Metacritic, 76 to 75. It also depends on what you want: the "which to pick" section above calls out which is cheaper, lighter on storage, better on a Steam Deck and the safer bet by weight of reviews.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

All comparisons

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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