When Warner Bros and TT Games announced LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they said it would include exclusive new story content set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. In an interview with Game Informer, the developer revealed what we can expect.
As Mike Taylor, Head of Design at TT Fusion, explained, “There’s lots of exclusive stuff there, and we’ve drawn from the content in some of the other additional materials that Lucasfilm have been involved in.” This means that some of the missions will be based on books or comics, which Game Director Jamie Eden says they package in a way younger audiences can get to see.
In total, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have six missions they describe as bridge content. Completely optional, they each open up after completing two or so story missions based on The Force Awakens, and require a certain amount of gold bricks to fully unlock. Unlike the Deadpool missions in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, these missions are full-fledged. [THE FORCE AWAKENS SPOILERS AHEAD]
As for what you’ll see in those missions, one will explain how C-3PO got his new red arm, while another will show how the Rathtars were captured and brought to Han Solo’s ship, the Eravana. Taylor also teased that they are in the process of covering “some pretty significant events that happen before the film that give people more information about why certain things in The Force Awakens happened and why certain characte...