Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced the release of The Phantom Limb Level Pack for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, along with a new video showcasing this exciting downloadable (DLC) content, which is available today as a FREE download exclusively for players on PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. The Phantom Limb Level Pack extends the LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens experience, continuing the story from the Trouble Over Taul Level — one of the New Adventures set in the time leading up to the film — after C-3PO’s ship crash lands on the barren planet of Taul, allowing players to discover the thrilling events that led to his new red arm and reunion with the Resistance. This add-on content includes The Phantom Limb (Level), C-3PO (Taul), 2MED2, CO-34, GNK-189, MSE-Y, O-MR1 (Taul), PZ-99 (Taul), VL-44 (Taul), CR90 Corvette (Full-size Vehicle) and CR90 Corvette (Microfighter Vehicle).

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[i]Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens[/i] dutifully follows the pattern set by prior Lego tie-ins to a fault, but it's nonetheless a sound title your kids will love.

To no-one’s surprise, the cinematic juggernaut that was The Force Awakens has received the Lego game treatment, with Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens being a release as predictable as an eventual Halo 6 or Call of Duty: Whatever Post-Colon Title and Number We’re Up To Now. Their formula firmly established, the Lego film games have become a franchise almost like Madden or FIFA, churning out essentially the same game every year or so with a couple of tweaks and a new roster (of little plastic figures), and we can surely place a sure-fire bet on Episode VIII and IX titles popping up in a few years as well.

Predictable doesn’t mean bad, though. The formula endures because it’s by-and-large a winning one, simple enough for kids for pick up and have a low-pressure, kid-safe and fun runaround with, and yet also carrying enough appeal for adults to grab a controller and join them in blasting a few stormtroopers. True to form, LSWTFA packs enough goofy jokes, neat co-op ideas and cascading fountains of shiny, shiny Lego studs in to make it fun enough that you probably won’t much care that you’ve played it all before.

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