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Editorial Reviews:

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 pre-built minifigures, seems a little bit odd and unsettling--even bleak. Bleak enough to confirm the prejudices of parents and others who would consider computerised 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 colour 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, mega-brainy 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

Custom Reviews:

LEGO Creator

I guess the appeal of this game is a little why real lego has never really go out of fashion. No matter how many new fangled toys my children seem to have, no matter how flash and electronic they seem to be, soon or later I know I'll hear the familiar sound of the lego box being tipped up and out, as what seems like a million or so brightly coloured bricks go flying all over the room.

We originally had this software title when our computer was running Windows 98 and it provided hours of fun for the children and they spent hours building intricate and delicate virtual lego models, only to then take great delight in blowing them all up again. The bonus this time is that it's only the limit of the child's imagination that is the limit of the building, as they can never run out or bricks and have every possible combination of "special" bricks to complete that extraordinary building or vehicle. You can video the vehicles in motion also and then replay the effects to your heart's content.

When we upgraded to Windows XP this was one of the many games that were consigned to the car boot sale, as it didn't seem to work very well under the new Operating System. Recently though my son, obviously in a fit of nostalgia started pining for this game again, so I was most happy to see it re-issued and at a bargain price.

Happily this time it functions under XP as right as rain and now I can once again hear the clatter of the virtual lego bricks being thrown all over the place again. At least on the PC the clearing up take a lot less time!