
These studs can be spent on unlocking new characters for Free Play mode, hints for playing the game, and cheats. When they lose all their hearts, their character is broken apart and they lose studs (as opposed to lives).


Players also have a health meter consisting of four hearts that gets depleted if they get injured or shot at. Studs increase in value based on color, silver is the least valuable at only 10 points, going up to gold, valued at 100 points, blue at 1,000, and the rarest, purple worth 10,000. Lego Studs, small coin-like collectibles which serve as the game’s currency, can be collected by finding them, smashing or using the force on certain objects, or defeating enemies. By walking up to another friendly character, the player can switch control over to that character this interaction is necessary in order to use another character’s abilities to complete certain puzzles. Given a specific set of characters in each scenario, based on a scene from each of the movies, up to two players can control them, using their different abilities. Gameplay in Lego Star Wars is geared towards family play, and does not feature a game-over scenario. It was first released on 29 March 2005, and is a video game adaptation of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), with a bonus level from A New Hope (1977). Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (sometimes simply called Lego Star Wars) is a Lego-themed, action-adventure video game based on the Lego Star Wars line of toys, and the first installment in the Lego video game franchise developed by Traveller’s Tales, which would develop all future Lego titles from that point on.
