LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 13 Exciting Details We Just Learned

9. It Has Pitched Blaster Battles

Another of the new gameplay elements sees players dropping into cover for blaster battles behind cover. This mechanic was shown of in the gameplay presentation by Graham Goring, who talked us through the Rathtar level on Han Solo's freight ship.

Heading into the sequence, the camera moves in as the player drops into cover, taking on the over the shoulder third player style of shooters. There's no major uplift in difficulty however, as the game generously targets enemies (it's important to remember this is primarily an accessible gameplay experience like all of the other LEGO games), but it isn't a matter of simply blasting your way through: the battles usually come with puzzle elements (when the cast are split in two and one part deals with helping the other advance through their actions).

Again, it just fills me with excitement for the possibility of a LEGO shooter. Die Hard maybe? Am I reaching here?