Star Wars: Force Unleashed is shaping up to be a fantastic action title with its impressive physics and brooding story revolving around Darth Vader's secret apprentice. Today we've just had a new drop of news that's sure to make some fans even more gooey inside -- not only will you be playing the apprentice, but the Dark Lord of the Sith himself.
The first level takes place on the Wookiee home planet of Kashyyyk, and allows you to assume the role of Lord Vader as he hunts for Jedi. I hate Wookies, so the chance to throw them around as Vader himself has already earned this game a gold star on principle alone. While it sounds like Vader is only in the first level to demonstrate all the Force powers you'll eventually earn as the apprentice, it's still an announcement made of Dark Win.
Even as a passing fan of Star Wars (more interested in the expanded universe than the passable movies), I am excited for this. The hype is strong with this one, but it still looks like Force Unleashed has everything to become one of 2008's hottest games. You get to Force Blast Wookiees, for crying out loud! That's one sale guaranteed right there.
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8:39 AM on 02.06.2008
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Ewoks on the other hand...i'd happily kick every single one of them in the face.
I didn't like KotOR. And it put me off star Wars games. I haven't picked one up since. Doubt I'll be looking at this one either, hilarious Vader pics or not :/ And it's sooooo wrong to let one game spoil everything, but yeah. KotOR ruined it.
This is a definite MUST have... Pure gold!
I think that this cant hurt what already looks like a pretty good looking game.
Also,
True story.
Even more my Video Game Journalist Hero. I'll get thee a badge. When I finish my hotpot.
Aside from that, I'll probably keep watching the progress of this game; admittedly it looks pretty interesting with the "antastic action title with its impressive physics and brooding story" but just badging "MOTHERFLIPPING STAR WARS" isn't going to make me want to buy it.
I liked it.
And yeah, KOTOR sucked. Keeps me from trying Mass Effect.
praise the man who made this possible.
this almost makes up for the fact that they say VADER will only be playable on the PS3 version of SCIV. thats some bullshit there but this makes it all ok.
VADER FTW!
Wookiee has 2 "e"s
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You hate Wookies AND found KOTOR to be boring?
*Calls Niero's golden robo-assassins.....(Order 67)
Vader....YEAH!
So he isn't going there just to beat up some furballs, he's trying to finish what his master started, which makes sense.
o.O
1) Vader didn't need to sit around watching the Death Star get built. It's not as if he built it himself. They could just fax the papers over, get his secretary to pass them to Vader to sign, and send them back. Grand Moff Tarkin didn't just stink up the space station, he's a Moff. He was Moffing in Vader's place.
2) Vader had the 18 years it took Luke and Leia to grow up between the two movies to go Jedi hunting. Even if he was stuck on the Death Star, it wouldn't have been for 18 years. Vader hunted down the remaining Jedi himself immediately following the events of Revenge of the Sith. He wasn't hunting Wookies, he was looking for Jedi. Wookies just got in the way.
Also, Vader playable = mucho bonus points
This is awesome. I love the idea of Vader and the Empire still searching for Yoda and/or Obi-Wan. And hunting Wookies? Jim, have you ever played Republic Commando? If they go that design route, the Wookies could be freaking amazing to tangle with, even if it's probably just a tutorial stage.
But as the number of Jedis dwindled he just got lazier and lazier until his skills atrophied to what we see in episodes IV and on.
The Emperor wouldn't want to risk him? Shit, the Emperor tries to kill him regularly. If Vader isn't strong enough, he doesn't want him as his apprentice.
So yeah, presumeably this first level takes place at the end of this novel and is the event where Vader decides he needs an apprentice of his own to help kill off the last jedi and help him destroy the Emperor
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I cant wait for this game