Please keep all discussion of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for the Wii in this thread.

The game is great. for single player. The multiplayer is bad. Not having a split screen means that one might be pulling on the other. The characters died no few times from being dragged into a pit because the other player was going the wrong way.

The pod racing in 2 player mode is impossible. The gravity always forces one of the pods into the walls or something, thus never being able to catch up and finish the race. You literally have to drop out one of the players to finish the chapter (of course, it took an hour before we realized this, both of us were getting motion sickness by the end).

I agree that completing this game in Co-Op must be extremely hard and frustrating unless both players are experimented and knows where they are going and what they are doing.

When I played the first lego star wars (on the PS2) with a friend, we ended up fighting each other because we became so angry at the game that we were blaming each other for aour mediocre performance. It's pretty much like old school games where you both have to be on the same screen and you often die because your partner went to fast/slow.

The secret is teamwork, wait and fight together.

But now I only play this game for fun, as a SW fan for Co-Op. I'm doing levels without hoping to complete it, I'm just moving and enjoying the play with or without a partner, and we make sure to wait for the other when there is pitfalls. (Just like oldschool games such as Ice Climbers)

Er, no, it's broken. If you fight together, there is a high chance of team kill. If you fight separately, you would be fighting each other on direction to go.

At the same time, there is nothing that gives it any advantage to two-player, but all of the bad stuff (more enemies, fighting each other, etc). Hence the multi-player is broken.

As for the pod race, it's going so fast, and you barely have maneuver control, two players just cannot coordinate.

I just feel that co-optimus should weigh multi-player experience heavily in ratings. The single player might be a 4 or 5. Multiplayer is a 0.

I had the same problem, and it bugged me too. However, my son and I were able to finally just work together and stick together, and didn't encounter this problem any longer. That made it fun again.

Were you able to get thru the pod race in co-op? If so, kudos!!

Oh my no....tried the pod race like 30 times AT LEAST, and we couldn't get past it on co-op. I dumped him out of the game for the race and did it myself, and passed it on the first try.

UGH

what's wrong with you people? i play the ps3 version of this game with my brother all the time. it's not just one of our favorite games to play (and for the most part, we only play co-op), but some of our friends also love to play it with us when they come over.

i've been playing lego star wars since the first one, and we have never had problems playing co-op. we usually get "True Jedi" on the first run-through of the level. now we are almost 70% done with the game. with all the stud multipliers, we have x480 or something ridiculous. this is seriously one of my favorite games of all time to play co-op. i'm sure it helps that i am a Star Wars fan, but i don't play shitty games just because it is Star Wars.

this is a great game, and i am psyched for LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman.

EDIT: yeah, yeah... we all know the podrace kinda sucks, and you kinda have to do it in single player to be able to beat it. but who cares? that's one level out of 36+. let's not forget all the extras they threw in this game too, like the 2player arcade and bonus levels that were originally never in the game.

Don't get me wrong..I love the game. I only had a coop problem with the race. Other than that, it's great. I too can't wait for Indiana Jones. That will rock.

Just got the game, and i've played it abit with my girlfriend, and i've got to say it's really a great co-op game. I'd just wish they'd fix the pod race but other then that it's an awesome coop experience imo.