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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed | 
| From: Lucas Arts Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Format: Cd
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 33276
Model: 32761
UPC: 023272332761
EAN: 0023272332761
ASIN: B000R0URCE
Release Date: September 16, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Condition: Prima Official Game Guide Included!
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| Features:
| • | Confront and associate with familiar faces from the Star Wars films, including Darth Vader in addition to new adversaries such as fugitive Jedi and Force-sensitive Felucians | | • | Unleash and upgrade the Secret Apprentice's four core Force powers - Force push, grip, repulse and lightning - throughout the course of the game, and combine them for ultra-destructive, never-before-seen combos. | | • | Examples of unleashing the Force in ways never thought possible: Secret Apprentice won't just Force push enemies into walls - he'll Force push enemies through walls, and will Force grip them in midair, zap them with lightning, then drop them to the ground | | • | Visit locations such as Episode III's Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk and the floral Felucia, the junk planet Raxus Prime, plus an Imperial TIE fighter construction facility | | • | Decisions made by players throughout the game will determine the path of the story, including multiple endings that will rock Star Wars continuity as they know it. |
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The Star Wars saga will continue in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a videogame developed by LucasArts, which casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. The expansive story, created under direction from George Lucas, is set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In it, players will assist the iconic villain in his quest to rid the universe of Jedi - and face decisions that could change the course of their destiny.
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You are Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice
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Use The Force to disable your enemies
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Artwork of the Jedi "Maris"
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As its name implies, The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force by taking full advantage of newly developed technologies that will be seen and experienced for the first time: Digital Molecular Matter (DMM), by Pixelux Entertainment, and euphoria by NaturalMotion Ltd. Paired with the powerful Havok Physics™ system, these new technologies create gameplay only possible on the new generation of consoles. DMM incorporates the physical properties of anything in the environment so that everything reacts exactly like it should - wood breaks like wood, glass shatters like glass, plants on the planet Felucia bend like plants on the planet Felucia would, and more. Meanwhile, as a revolutionary behavioral-simulation engine, euphoria enables interactive characters to move, act and even think like actual human beings, adapting their behavior on the fly and resulting in a different payoff every single time.
Game Features:- During the period between Episodes III and IV, players hunt Jedi in the role of Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice.
- Unleash and upgrade the Secret Apprentice's four core Force powers - Force push, grip, repulse and lightning - throughout the course of the game, and combine them for ultra-destructive, never-before-seen combos.
- Examples of unleashing the Force in ways never thought possible:
- The Secret Apprentice won't just Force push enemies into walls - he'll Force push enemies through walls.
- The Secret Apprentice won't just Force grip foes to throw them aside - he'll Force grip them in midair, zap them with lightning, then drop them to the ground to explode like a bomb.
- In addition to new adversaries created just for the game, such as fugitive Jedi and Force-sensitive Felucians, players will also confront and associate with familiar faces from the Star Wars films, including Darth Vader.
- Visit locations such as Episode III's Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk and the floral Felucia, the junk planet Raxus Prime, plus an Imperial TIE fighter construction facility.
- The Force Unleashed is LucasArts' first internally developed title for next-generation consoles, and it represents the first in-game collaboration of talents and technology between LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic, two companies now finally under one roof at the new Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio district.
- The Force Unleashed debuts Digital Molecular Matter from Pixelux and euphoria behavioral simulation from NaturalMotion Ltd.
- LucasArts is preparing an unprecedented promotional effort around the launch of The Force Unleashed, encompassing a full line of toys and game-based action figures from Hasbro, as well as a full publishing program from Dark Horse, Del Rey and Palace Press.
Meet the Cast
The Star Wars Saga will continue in 2008 with LucasArts' biggest-ever video game event. Set during the "dark times" between Episodes III and IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed portrays the previously untold story of Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice -- and now you can put a face to that mysterious character as well as the major supporting cast members as LucasArts unveils the actors set to star in The Force Unleashed. The New Technology of The Force Unleashed
With The Force Unleashed, LucasArts not only introduces a new chapter in the Star Wars saga, but also two completely new and innovative technologies -- Digital Molecular Matter by Pixelux Entertainment and euphoria by NaturalMotion Ltd. These groundbreaking technologies combine with Havoc physics to create true next-gen gameplay and the Force like it's never been seen or experienced before.
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They did it... October 9, 2008
The game was one of the better games for quality and shows the power of the counsels it is on. Its a bit linear for my tastes but all games have the must complete objectives, from start to finish on each level though what you can do to kill your opponents keeps it fun and playable for a long while. The NPC become a nuisance in large groups on the more difficultly settings as they work as a team and try to kill you, not once in my play through have I encounter and identical approach to stop me. One time I killed a boss easy and the next time one more attack would have had me.
My only wish is that they would have done a KOTOR style game.
 It's craptastic! October 8, 2008
I agree with many of the other lackluster reviews, in that this game feels very unpolished, and buggy. The graphics are nice (barring the occasional texture flickering) but thats about it. I highly reccomend borrowing this game or renting it before you buy. I haven't played the demo, but I'm guessing if you've played the demo, you've pretty much played the entire game. Total waste of money.
 Alot of Fun, but not for Long. October 8, 2008
I bought The Force Unleashed on the first day of its release and I was very impressed initially with the game. The first level was awesome to play with Vader, extremely easy but still very fun. But I beat the game in about 9 hours of gameplay over the course of 3 days (on normal). The levels really got repetitive and most of the enemies are too easy to kill once you figure out how to kill one, they all can pretty much be killed the same way.
The Force powers are very cool, but some are very difficult to perform when you're involved in an attack. Force Lighting is way too powerful and a couple doses pretty much kill everything except Vader and Palpatine. The mini-boss kills get too repetitve (in the level where you have to kill 4 rancors, they pretty much all get killed with the exact same cut sequence: cool the first time, annoying after time number 4)
There aren't many challenging aspects of the game except enemies. There aren't any situations where you have to use reason like in KOTOR or attempt to use stealth like in Assassin's Creed. You pretty much just run through the map killing everyone that is in your path. The only exception to this is getting the force crystals as some of them are impossible to get unless you force grip some objects into different locations, etc.
The story is kind of stupid and the ending was tough for me to identify as the Good Side vs Bad Side choice. I won't wreck it for anybody, but I was slightly confused as to what I was supposed to do, mostly due to how terrible the camera positions itself for this 'event'
Positives - Very fun to play initially, great graphics, pretty easy to execute the basic force moves but more difficult once you start getting more force combos. The environments were very cool and you could interact with alot of stuff even if it wasn't in your field of vision.
Negatives - the camera became very frustrating and it really makes some of the jumping sequences difficult. The enemies got pretty repetitive and were actually very easy until I got to the end sequence. I died twice trying to kill Vader in the bad ending(the only times I died from anything other than jumping), but defeated Palpatine on my first attempt. Not much depth or thinking required to play this game: target enemy, force lightning, hit with saber, move to next guy. A few differences in enemy tactics, but not much. There are a few glitches in the game, the most annoying one being on the SD level where if you get hit by a TIE fighter shot, you get stuck on a ledge where you cannot move back into the middle of it and eventually fall off. This happened to me several times and got me pretty mad at the SD level.
Overall, I'd say you're better off renting this game or buying it used because the chance that you'll get sick of it or beat it quickly certainly exist. The only thing that has kept me from selling it back is to attempt to obtain all the force crystals, some of which are very tough to get. I seem to have a thing about games about finding all those little trinkits in case I get something cool. I wish Lucas Arts would have put there effort into another KOTOR like game as this one was really great on the surface, but lacked the depth to keep me interested for longer than 10 hours.
 The best SW game in years October 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great story.
Visually impressive.
Some amazing moments.
Really fun.
 Another could have been great if .... October 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game was a great Star Wars experience with too many moments of excruciating game play frustration. If it wasn't for the story cliff hangers to keep me going, I would have walked away from this game several times. Too many times I wanted to throw my controller. I would only recommend this game to a Star Wars fan. Assassins Creed had the sword fighting mechanic down perfect for me.
The good: The art direction was great. The levels were dramatic and captured the Stars Wars atmosphere beautifully. The story was good and I enjoyed all the cut scenes. The QuickTime events were over-the-top once I could stop staring what button to press and actually watch it. Some the battles you get into are extremely fun when you can pull off some combos and use the light saber. The mini-boss fights were some of the favorite battles for me.
The bad: The game play was enjoyable only about 60% of the time. It seemed to me that the actual game play was an add-on to the story/movie portions. The 40% part was frequently a tedious exercise in frustration. Why?
1.Targeting, especially in a short range fight. It always picks some piece of junk instead of the enemy that your fighting or one that is about to attack you.
2.Most of the levels, while beautiful, are just boxes. When they have an unfair amount of enemies/snipers so you end up using "glitch" behavior to get through them. There is no strategy only your ability to quickly kill them off to build your health faster than they can wear it down. Too much luck involved for survival.
3.Once you get knocked down every enemy hits you just as you about to stand and you are soon dead. The sequence timing is terrible.
4.Many times you re-spawn in front of enemies without your light saber ready. They get a couple shots in at you before you can defend yourself.
5. The end-boss Jedi fights are in an exercise in tedium and frustration. I cruise along having a good time and then the end boss battle shows up and ruins everything. These should be the best and they are NOT. The fixed camera approach is terrible. The QuickTime events are the only good thing.
6.Too many combos to remember and there is a long learning curve for the appropriate situation for many of them because you just use the ones that work for you. Rinse repeat.
7.Looking for holicrons etc around the level is lame.
8.Not enough save points.
In summary this game is similar to Bioshock for me. Good story, beautiful design, and a variety of tools to fight with. It has many unique and enjoyable small events, but Jedi fails in the big picture - game play. I can't believe all these frustrations got by their game testers or they ignored them.
I did finish it and I am working on the second try at the highest difficulty to see how more effective I can be with my fighting style and to pick up things I missed first time through. The only reason I continue to play is that there are not any other game out that interest me.
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