WONDERFUL

• This was the first LEGO game to have a huge, explorable lobby that is unlocked the farther you get in the game. Unlike previous LEGO Star Wars titles, the entire lobby isn't a mere 3 or 4 rooms.
• The game features unexpected humor throughout it's gameplay and cutscenes, some that I can still admittedly chuckle at today.
• Characters aren't purchased in a menu for the first time, you get to search throughout the lobby for new people making exploration constantly refreshing.
• The gameplay itself is futuristic. Animations are much smoother and and make combat extremely fun. On top of that, many characters have their own special moveset or style.
• Splitscreen provides a new dynamic feature where both players don't have to stay in the same spot the entire time; they can wonder off to different areas. This provided for a new feature that has characters split-up during a level to do different tasks at the same time.
• The game has well-polished areas with realistic lighting, shadows, and textures and sharper graphics making it possible to render over 200 characters on screen at once making large-scale battles possible.
• Because of the games new rendering ability, a new LEGO game feature was introduced: pvp combat. This is personally my favorite thing about this game because it provides much more replayability and something completely different than the other titles. This feature has each player build a base with vehicle spawners, barracks, forcefields, canons, etc. and then defend them at the same time.
• Space/vehicle levels in this game are actually playable and interesting.
• No levels seem drawn-out. Everything is done without the player losing interest or begging for it to be over.
• There's a lot more to do on free-play. Only up to 3/10 minikits are usually obtained each level, which gives the overall game more content.

• The game is pretty repetitive. Several levels are nearly identical and some tasks throughout those levels repeat themselves.
• The cutscenes. Yes, they are short and comical, but they often are too fast and don't explain much of what is happening unless prior knowledge from the Clone Wars show is acquired. A lot of unnecessary, yet funny, clips take up the majority of cutscenes and leave the game with much less story to it. I would still rather have this than a game that has 0 humor with the characters talking however.
• It sometimes zooms in on something after a task is completed. Don't get me wrong, this can be helpful in guiding what to do next, but there are way too many moments where it is completely unneeded and takes focus away from the game.
• The directions are sometimes lackluster. A lot of key components in the games mechanics are just there without any explanation or guide, making the user figure out how it works. This can be good in terms of the player being connected and creative with the game, but it can sometimes leave the player wandering around for several minutes with no idea of what's happening.
• Some context from the Clone Wars is needed to fully enjoy this. Just like if someone never saw Harry Potter or Pirates of the Caribbean, they wouldn't get a true experience of the game. People should only play this game if they have at least some background of what the game is about. Because that background is about the Clone Wars though, the audience is automatically much smaller than most LEGO games.
• Bugs. Even after 9 years of it being out, there are a few minor problems here and there. First off, force-placing in this game is pretty horrendous and hard to control. It can sometimes take up to a minute to simply move an object from one place to another. There are also the rare bugs like animations or abilities not working, or the game crashing, but again, these are rare.