According to the folks at Aeropause who happened to catch the latest edition of GametrailersTV - the Star Wars: Force Unleashed demo should be hitting both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network this coming Thursday, August 21st.
The Force Unleashed is a brand new Lucas Arts Star Wars title set between Episode III and IV and features some pretty incredible physics and force powers all playing together in glorious dark side glory.
I have pretty high hopes for this game as well. I mean, the force powers look cool - but at first glance, all I could think of was "Isn't this basically like a Grav Gun... without the gun?"
My only sadness for the game is is that I believe it dooms the Jedi Knight series, and with it the great only play and dueling mechanic...
Since Raven's been pretty busy with other games for the past several years, I'd figured Jedi Knight was dead anyway.
Personally, I think Force Unleashed has the potential to be awesome, if they get the controls right. I am getting a little tired of this time frame around the movies, though. How about an action game in the KotOR period? You could play Darth Revan before he lost his memory, perhaps with some HK-47 assassination missions on the side. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
Personally, I hope this is great, and everything I've seen so far looks pretty awesome. . . not sure where these two negative posts are coming from. Why do you guys think it will suck?
I loved Jedi Knight and I replay Jedi Academy at least once/year. . . Kyle Katarn was never that interesting to me (who wants to play a bearded middle-aged man besides other bearded middle-aged men?), but I loved getting to make my own Jedi.
Force Unleashed is looking like force powers will be more important than good dueling skills, and also like the focus will be on fighting non-Force users who are generally push-overs to a Jedi even in large numbers. . . but that's still fun. I like playing Dynasty Warriors so having an amazing superhero type character does not bug me at all.
Playing the apprentice in SC4, I kept thinking how odd it was that he looked so much like that guy from the first season of Dexter. One day I actually bothered to look it up and yeah, Sam Witwer provides the voice and likeness of the apprentice. Using a (relatively) unknown actor to actually "play" a role in a videogame isn't exactlyunheard of, but its an interesting development nonetheless. Certainly one way to avoid characters all looking the same.
Awesome. After the trailers earlier today - which proved the game's visuals even more - I've been looking forward to seeing how well the game actually plays. I'll be sure to pick this up...
I'm pretty excited for this one, so fingers crossed it doesn't suck. Soul Calibur 4 has me pretty warmed up to the character of the apprentice, so it'll be interesting to see how his own actual game plays. Even if it's just a sandbox game for force abilities I reckon I'll have some fun with it.
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Am I the only one who would rather see a game centered around Han Solo, where you do a lot of gun slinging and space combat? Because I have a feeling this new Star Wars game will be completely devoid of that.
I thought the gameplay trailers looked fantastic, and the trailer was awesome. I can't wait to play the demo. Unless the game is absolute crap, I'll be buying this for sure.
