“Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” is a new combination LucasArts video game, novel from Del Rey Books, a graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics and merchandizing action figure/toys tie-in with Lego and Hasbro.
The game will be available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, as well as, second-generation N-Gage, iPhone, mobile phone, and PlayStation 2 platforms.
The game and novelizations of it will take you to a history of the Star Wars universe never before visited and introduce you to Darth Vader’s secret apprentice Galen Marke, a.k.a. Starkiller. You go with Vader and his young protege as they hunt down all remaining Jedi Knights across the galaxy.
While filling in the missing pages of Vader’s life between episode III and “A New Hope,” the game and novels allow us to see the universe through the eyes of the dark Sith Lord and his powerful use of the Dark Side — a world in which the Jedi are the enemy, and the hunted.
The game play allows users to do battle, while the novels will let the reader feel it.
The Sean Williams novel was released in the U.S. last month and quickly rose to number one on Publishers Weekly, The New York Times bestseller’s list and rated #15 on USA Today’s bestsellers list. The Dark Horse graphic novel was also published in August.
The video game is set for release beginning September 16 throughout North America, the next day in Asia and on September 19 the European Union countries will get it.
No PC version? Go %$#% yourself George!
Plus there are craps loads of awesome games on the PC. They know their piece of junk won’t compete.
Check out this article on IGN
http://pc.ign.com/articles/873/873303c.html
While the tech advancements are certainly worthly of notice, the story itself is the same old, same old. Jedi are Gods, and troopers are nothing more then a means for closet psychopaths to commit massively unbalanced wholesale mass-murder under the guise of “Jedi good guy”.
This game has taken “size matters not” to the realm of the rediculous and panders to the Jedi lovers out there. So, if you’re one of those, this shallow string of excuses to wail on people like a God is right up your alley.
I’ll save my money and wait until the next “Star Wars: Republic (or Imperial) Commando” game.
Um… have you guys even played the demo or read the book?
First off, you play as Vader’s apprentice, sent out to hunt and kill Jedi. The main part of the game is spent killing the enemies of the empire. Thought you’d love that TD. The reason the main character is shown killing stormtroopers is that the Emperor can not find out about the apprentice. Vader’s order: “Leave no witnesses”
As for the gameplay, its really nice to finally get to feel the power of the force. Other Star Wars games never quite captured it right. Here you can pick up a rebel, or stormtrooper, force choke them, hit them with lightning that throws them into the AT-ST thats coming at you.
The book is a fun read and had an interesting storyline, but isn’t very deep. I want to pick up the game, but I don’t have much free time right now. Unless the demo was the best part of the game, I’d expect this to be as big as the Knight of the Old Republic games. Since the next big console games don’t come out till October (Fallout 3 and Fable 2), it will only have to compete with Spore, which is PC only.