2008-07-26 07:41:50 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed thread

At Comic Con they announced that LucasArts are gonna upload The Force Unleashed demo on both PSN and XBL in August, while the game releases in September!

I for one can't wait to get my hands on the game, love how over the top they have gone with the force powers, and that Gamespot live demo from E3 is so great I kept watching it multple time.

The apprentice for me is like the only character in Star Wars universe that I like, in terms of force powers and lightsaber fighting, kind of like Ryu Hayabusa in Star Wars but with force powers attached that goes beyond the limit.

Anyways, I hope the demo comes in early August and I hope the demo is a early built and a good decent long one with alot of things unlocked so we can get a feeling of how powerful the apprentice is.
The demo will keep me busy for the final game for September, which is a long wait :(

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2008-07-26 08:49:17

Sweet.. I can't wait to try it. I really want a new Jedi Knight game, but this will do just fine for the time being. There hasn't been a solid third person Star Wars action/adventure game in quite a long time.

2008-07-26 09:03:23

No it hasen't...atleast what I know of anyways.
There was a Obi-Wan game for Xbox, but I heard it was bad, so I didn'tr try it out.
But this seem to be the best Star Wars action game up to date, I hope they make it good, because from what I have seen from live demo from E3 it looks great.

I just hope the demo gives us a good leveled up version of the apprentice to see how good he is, but as a taste, even though we know he can do much more.

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2008-07-26 09:06:14

There was Jedi Academy for Xbox as well, which is a great game.. but the Jedi Power Battles franchise was pretty shitty. Playable and shitty, but that's not exactly high praise. There were also some great Star Wars games in other genres last generation, but nothing quite like this. Republic Commando was good, KOTOR was excellent, Rogue Squadron was supposed to be quite solid, etc.

2008-07-26 09:25:51

Yeah, Republic Commando was very cool,. I have it on PC but my PC can't handle it unless its on medium or low :P

KOTOR, I don't like the battle system for that, I like if its real-time combat like The Force Unleashed because that is very close to God of War, NG, DMC type games which are my favorites, so this hopefully will join rank with those titles.

But I haven't played any more SW games, except Lego Star Wars demo that was up long time ago on XBL, that was fun.

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2008-07-26 11:11:55

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/687527/Star_...

That is the video confirming the demo!

It's almost in the beginning of the game with a cool twist i the end of the demo.
The level the demo is gonna include is the tie fighter level, and no release date for the demo, just next month...I hope its early next month would be cool.

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2008-07-26 16:34:52 In reply to GriftGFX (2008-07-26 08:49:17)

Same here, love that series. Never played Academy on the XBOX though, had it on PC.

2008-07-26 16:58:48

theres a PURE demo for mid august too, which i gotta say im looking forward to more. force unleashed looks like it could be pretty good tho. could be the first good star wars game in a long while.

2008-07-26 19:30:37

Jedi Academy had some KICKASS lightsaber fights.

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2008-07-26 20:44:31 In reply to LEBATO (2008-07-26 19:30:37)

Never tried that game going to check it out.

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2008-07-26 21:40:23 In reply to LEBATO (2008-07-26 19:30:37)

Yeah I love it.. I still have the PC version installed. You can still find a nice duals server populated from time to time. There's not a big crowd still playing, but enough to find a match when you need it. I hate bots though (generally speaking, I hate bots).. all they do is populate servers and make it more difficult to find real people.

2008-07-26 22:23:13

Demo is the second level. which is your first as the apprentice in a Tie Fighter factory.

Not sure how leveled up the character is, only played the start of it. It didn't seem to be much different from the full game which I thought was quite fun. Throwing people around doesn't really get old :-)

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2008-07-26 22:59:03 In reply to deftangel (2008-07-26 22:23:13)

Hey deft, how are light saber battles if any?

Also, does the game get repetitive in terms of gameplay? Any puzzles at all? How difficult is it? It seems like you have too much of an advantage over AI?

Thanks,

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2008-07-27 07:40:01 In reply to LEBATO (2008-07-26 22:59:03)

Deft you played Force Unleashed right?

How long can the combos get? I bet it takes time to level up the character alot to add more.

Does that demo give you a nice showdown of what the apprentice can do interms of combos and force powers merged together?

Lebato you might as well should just look at the Gamespot live demo, they show pretty much everything you need to know and tell you even more.

Link: http://www.gamespot.com/video/933155/6194374/star-...

Now about puzzles and all, I don't know they don't say anything about it.

But there is a light RPG to the game were you make some decisions that effects the ending and you can upgrade your lightsaber to unleash some force powers thru the lightsabers, you can even change the color of the lightsabers.

And don't forget that these AIs, well they are regular enemies like stormtroopers and regular soldiers against a jedi that is crazy with the lightsaber and the force so its obvious you gonna have a huge advantage over them.
But the live demo they show those enemies that are pretty big held together by the force, they looked pretty tough and took a bit of time to kill them.
They probably have alot of harder enemies you need to face in the game, they have like 50 enemy designs, so just wait ;)

Deft...how long was the demo?

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2008-07-27 08:25:46

Thanks for the link but there is so much more I need to know!

For one it didn't show me any jedi fights, which I have high hopes for. Also, I wonder how long the game is going to be and if they have done something to make it worth playing again aside from just making it good and your basic difficulty levels.

I think that single player games only that last your standard 10hrs are really just that, an average game length. I wish the standard was moved to 14hrs for this games.

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2008-07-27 09:05:24

No problem Lebato.

And yeah i know what you mean, we need more info for example about the leveling up, the customization of the lightsaber, the jedi fights (which is boss fights I think).

The length of the game is also good to know.
For example NG2 was short, but still has alot of replay value considering you can keep switching weapons and experiment.

What I think is gonna be fun in this game is that you can keep having fun on various ways to kill the enemy with the environment interactivity.
They said they had, what like 2-3 difficaulties one being brutal or something.

I guess we should know the closer we get to the release date.

Besides, the live demo wasen't long enough to show any of the boss fights, just to show you how long each level is gonna take.

One thing I hope this game has is "new game+" like NG2.
You beat the game and you can start over with the same difficaulty you ended but with everything unlocked, would be fun.

Don't forget that there are some side missions too, but it is not a RPG game so don't expect stuff like your typical RPG.

But more to come I guess.

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2008-07-28 01:22:39

As for new game+, I think they said that you can replay levels to try new things. I kind of assume that means with your leveled up character, otherwise it wouldn't make sense mentioning it because we can obviously replay levels if we go through campaign again.

Basically, if they give us the choice to choose the levels, they might as well give us our leveled up character--I hope.

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2008-07-28 01:31:50

There's probably some progression, like in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight franchise. I would imagine it mostly entails having to pick between different force powers as you go through the game, and making them more powerful as you progress.

2008-07-28 07:36:32 In reply to LEBATO (2008-07-28 01:22:39)

Well I hope we can either choose levels or replay thru the whole game with the apprentice all maxed out to max out every lightsaber and force abilities there is and just have fun with the game, that would be very cool.

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2008-07-28 09:54:52 In reply to GriftGFX (2008-07-28 01:31:50)

Yup :)

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2008-07-29 02:31:58

Always nice a demo :)

I want to try this, looks cool from the videos.

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2008-08-03 20:33:15

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/20046
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Yh13vtbCo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WD7MSE3n9MA

Here is the Comic-Con demo videos, same one that is gonna be uploaded to PSN and XBL this month!

I love it when you use the lightsaber to reflect the blasters shots back very quickly.
I am jealous of the people who got to try out the demo so damn early, and hopefully they upload the demo online very very soon.

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2008-08-03 21:23:04

It's looking really good. I just hope that the demo comes in the earlier days of August, rather than the later days.

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2008-08-03 22:00:27 In reply to blmbox (2008-08-03 21:23:04)

Yeah same here.
I think that they are gonna release it around Clone Wars movie comes out.

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2008-08-04 02:26:04

it's august already...hope they announce the demo date soon