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Finally, George Lucas has gone from making movies that look like cartoons and video games to making cartoons and video games themselves. At least these products will be honest.

Personally, I'm not looking forward to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which looks almost as cheesy as the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. So far, Lucas also has a mixed record on the video games that have stretched out both the franchise and its financial performance. While the Rogue Squadron trilogy was great, the Battlefront games were about as entertaining as The Phantom Menace.

My new favorite – it came out in November, but I've been obsessed with it lately – is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. The game is exactly what it sounds like: a meta-licensed mash-up between Star Wars and Lego that offers gamers the chance to play through all six movies with Legoriffic incarnations of their favorite characters. This is both as ridiculous and as entertaining as it sounds. The cut scenes alone — which replay scenes from the movie with Lego spaceships and little Lego figures — are worth the price of admission.

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