Last week I met with the lucky people who work at LucasArts to get a preview of some of their video games due in stores this holiday season. Of the three games I got to sit down and play, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is by far one of the best games that I have ever played.
The game takes place between the 3rd (Revenge Of The Sith) and 4th (A New Hope) movies and most important of all, we’ve learned that George Lucas himself is personally overseeing the final stages of the construction of this video game. Many Bothans died to bring us this information.
In the game, you play through as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice hand picked and trained by Vader to help him seek out and destroy the surviving Jedi. Your weapon is the elegant lightsaber and enough force power to hurtle space ships. Seriously, the level I played through was a Tie-Fighter manufacturing plant and after slicing a droid in half with my lightsaber, I used the force to grab a Tie-Fighter and hurtle it at my enemies. The graphics on this game are immense with just about everything you see reacting if it is touched. For example, I blew something up dangerously close to a window, which caused the window to break and everything in the room (including me) to begin getting sucked out the window until the emergency blast doors closed over the window.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be in stores September 16, for the Nintendo Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.
looks awesome
I can’t wait to play that game! You are so lucky to have gotten a taste! I however, am all about this graphic novel i just read by Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Amano. It’s called Mateki: The Magic Flute and is definitely a must read for any real gamer!