Description:
At first acquaintance, the basic "gaming environment" wherein LEGO Creator's players build their virtual bikes, choppers, cranes, and so on, and direct their dinky, cutesy, usually prebuilt minifigures, seems a little bit odd and unsettling--even bleak. Bleak enough to confirm the prejudices of parents and others who would consider computerized LEGO a travesty of the hands-on, real-world ethos of the original construction game. However, after a while, the cleverness of this CD-ROM comes to the fore. In the virtual LEGO Creator world you don't just build things and then take them apart; you can make them fly at the touch of a button, give them apposite or ludicrous sounds, change their color with a single mouse click--even blow them up (flamboyantly) using the special DESTRUCTA bricks. You're then able to pilot your figures and vehicles through the very world you have created, guided by an integral LEGO Creator Wizard--who is a bit like a permanently untiring, megabrainy parent. All in all, then, a rather fine and intelligent toy, albeit not one for the very young, or very active, or very easily dismayed. --Sean Thomas
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