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''LEGO Rock Raiders'' was a 1999 [[LEGO]] [[LEGO Themes|theme]] based around [[Asteroid Miners|mining on an alien planet]] for [[Power Crystal|Power Crystals]], sporting fifteen sets featuring mining vehicles, other craft, minifigure packs, and a large base set. What it is best remembered for, though, is its two very different tie-in games, one for the PC and one for the [[
The L.M.S. Explorer, a [[Cool Starship]] tasked with observing and exploring uncharted planets, was damaged by an asteroid field and caught by a wormhole on its voyage back to Earth, and was warped into another galaxy and left crippled and low on fuel. The ship's scanners were still operational, and picked up a nearby planet in the solar system, dubbed Planet U, that was rich in [[Green Rocks|Energy Crystals]] which could be used to restore powerto the L.M.S. Explorer and get them back to the Milky Way. However, Planet U proved to be [[Death World|a hostile place]] with high volcanic activity, frequent cave-ins, little breathable air, and populated with hostile wildlife, including the powerful Rock Monsters, [[Phlebotinum Muncher|whose diet consists solely of]] the Energy Crystals that the L.M.S. Explorer so dearly needs.
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* [[Built With Lego]]: Not so much. The vehicles and buildings are, as well as the L.M.S. Explorer, but all the monsters on Planet U are either organic or elemental. Slugs and Rock Monsters are occasionaly shown with studs on their backs.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]
* [[Conveniently
* [[Cool Starship]]: The L.M.S. Explorer.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: While most of the games and systems made by LEGO are either bright and cheery (eg [[Lego Island]]) or at least fairly amusing (eg the [[Lego Adaptation Game|LEGO Adaptation Games]]), the ''Rock Raiders'' games are on the verge of being some of the edgier products LEGO has made, especially compared to its contemporaries.
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* [[You Require More Vespene Gas]]: Mining through cavern walls to collect Energy Crystals and ore is the main purpose of the game, as well as how to build up bases.
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* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: More averted than the PC game. Though it still won't hurt you until you get close, touching it lowers your health at about 250% per second, instantly screwing your game.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: So now, not only are the handheld laser guns firing (slightly) more realistic "lasers", but now they can blow up ''any'' wall in ''one shot'' (far superior to the PC game lasers).
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* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: In the NTSC game, the ice levels actually have more lava in them than the lava levels, which are full of...water.
* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Getting Gold on all 18 missions. In the PAL version, you then get [[What Could Have Been|3 bonus levels]].
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer for the [[
* [[Regional Bonus]]: More like Regional Different Game. The PAL version has eighteen ''completely different'' levels with much more creative (and difficult) objectives, as well as no respawning tools and nasty Lava Monsters. Also, three bonus levels are unlocked when gold medals are gotten for every level, and there are eighteen two-player levels instead of six (though only six are new, the other twelve are recycled one-player levels).
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The only weakness of a Rockwhale is water, which (in large amounts) causes them to get soggy and melt into the ground. Almost all the ones that aren't running around... are standing next to water. Waiting for someone to come along with a pusher beam. Which every level they appear in has.
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