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7.7 out of 10

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

First seen: 7 january 2008

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Best Price: £12.99

  • User Score (279)
    7.2 7.2 from 279 reviewers
  • Expert Score (65)
    7.4 7.4 from 65 reviewers
  • Gameplay (18)
    7.7 7.7 from 18 reviewers
  • Graphics (22)
    8.5 8.5 from 22 reviewers
  • Sound (20)
    9.2 9.2 from 20 reviewers
  • Storyline (4)
    8.4 8.4 from 4 reviewers
  • Control (2)
    8.2 8.2 from 2 reviewers
  • Lifespan (2)
    7.3 7.3 from 2 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • excellent art design, force powers, unprecedented incredi visuals, fun action, visually and aurally awesome
  • too short, little shorter than expected, mediocre action, no multiplayer, becomes repetitive easily

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  • First seen
    7 January 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a action and fighting video game developed by LucasArts and part of the The Force Unleashed multimedia project with other developers and publishers namely Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro and del Ray Books. The game was developed for consoles, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360; and also handhelds, iPod Touch,iPhone, mobile phone, N-Gage, Nintendo DS and also PlayStation Portable. It was released on September 16, 2008 in Nor…

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a action and fighting video game developed by LucasArts and part of the The Force Unleashed multimedia project with other developers and publishers namely Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro and del Ray Books. The game was developed for consoles, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360; and also handhelds, iPod Touch,iPhone, mobile phone, N-Gage, Nintendo DS and also PlayStation Portable. It was released on September 16, 2008 in North America, September 17, 2008 in Australia and September 19, 2008 in Europe. The game enables single-palyer and multiplayer modes. It was rated 12 by BBFC, T by ERCB, PG (DS, N-Gage, iPod Touch and iPhone) and M (PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, PS2 and Wii) by OFLC and also 12+ (NDS) and 16+ (others) by PEGI.

Features

The game is set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, begins with the player controlling Darth Vader and searching Kashyyyk for a surviving Jedi. Vader then discovers the Jedi’s Force-srong child, whom he raises as his secret apprentice. Upon childhood, Vader ask Starkiller (name of the apprentice, which is the player) to hunt down the remaining Jedi for his ultimate goal to assassinate the Emperor. However, the Emperor’s spies discover Starkiller’s existence and the Emperor forces Vader to kill the apprentice; Vader hurls Starkiller into space, but secretly dispatches droids to retrieve and revive him. Vader gives his apprentice a new mission: to make contact with those who resist the Emperor’s rule and foster a rebellion among them to distract the Emperor so Vader can make his move. Starkiller rescues love interest and Rogue Shadow pilot Juno Eclipse, Jedi Master Rahm Kota, Princess Leia Organa and Senator Bail Organa. In the process, Starkiller learns from Kota about the Jedi way and ultimately spares the life of Jedi apprentice Maris Brood, despite her fall to the dark side. Starkiller travels between missions aboard the Rogue Shadow, whose crew develops a kinship despite their agenda.

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Review Summary

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an exciting and full of adventure PS 3 game. The game is about war which you have to fight, shoot and save people. The game is supported by the Lucas Arts’ proprietary "Ronin" engine. It also assimilates the third-party technology for example Havok for rigid body physics, Pixelux Entertainment’s "Digital Molecular Matter" for dynamically destructible objects, and Natural Motion’s Euphoria for character animation and artificial intelligence. It contains a video game, a ti…

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an exciting and full of adventure PS 3 game. The game is about war which you have to fight, shoot and save people. The game is supported by the Lucas Arts’ proprietary "Ronin" engine. It also assimilates the third-party technology for example Havok for rigid body physics, Pixelux Entertainment’s "Digital Molecular Matter" for dynamically destructible objects, and Natural Motion’s Euphoria for character animation and artificial intelligence. It contains a video game, a tie-in novel, action figures, a comic book, a reference book and a role-playing game supplement. You played a character named Wookiee who is the superhero and have other characters such as Darth Maul, a bounty hunter, a smuggler, or "the last Skywalker". The face- and motion-capture equipment is used during stage actors’ voice and physical performances of their lines, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra recorded a two-hour soundtrack. The PS 3 version features the fashionable "Historic Mode" which allowed players to redo battles and events from the Star Wars films. Viewers find the game exciting especially fans of the Star Wars movies who find it quite entertaining. Some players commented that the game is adventurous and fun. While others said that the game is simply dull and boring.

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  1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

    Reviewer: Pro-G
    16 September 2008
    Overall 7
    7.0
     

    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. Read more

  2. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

    Reviewer: DarkZero
    3 October 2008
    Overall 7
    7.0
     

    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an essential play for any fan of George Lucas’ creation. Unfortunately, the gameplay feels a tad repetitive, un-ambitious and never quite lives up to the superb storytelling. As Yoda might say, - “Lazy level design is the path to the dark side. Lazy level design leads to irritation. Irritation leads to apathy. Apathy leads to mediocre review score.” Read more

  3. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360, PS3) review

    Reviewer: DarkZero
    1 April 2009
    Overall 7
    7.0
     

    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an essential play for any fan of George Lucas’ creation. Unfortunately, the gameplay feels a tad repetitive, un-ambitious and never quite lives up to the superb storytelling. As Yoda might say, – “Lazy level design is the path to the dark side. Lazy level design leads to irritation. Irritation leads to apathy. Apathy leads to mediocre review score.” Read more

  4. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

    Reviewer: Ultra Ninjas
    29 September 2008
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    At the end of the day, it's a great game that's been marred by only allowing the current monkey-like QA staff to play the game rather than a bunch of sane “I've never played a game before” types to have a go and realise that they were getting their butt crevice handed to them and tone stuff up a little. Give it a go, but remain calm; keep your focus – “tow'tal concentration”. [I have no idea what he's on about either, folks. Time for his afternoon nap perhaps... Read more

  5. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

    Reviewer: Cheats Unlimited
    11 October 2008
    Overall 8
    7.5
     

    Despite its faults, the cheap AI, plus the generally linear and repetitive game-play, Force Unleashed does tend to be a passable affair in the long run. It's the sort of game that you probably wouldn't mind ploughing through (which doesn't take too long, ultimately), but all the while you can't help but feel that if it weren't a Star Wars game, you might have given up on it a few hours before. Read more

  1. One of The best games of the year

    Reviewer: badboy, Meijer
    1 January 2009
    Overall 10
    10
     

    i use this game as strss reliver the game play is 10 out of 10 the specal effects are a 10 out of 10 the game is short Read more

  2. Reviewer: Review Centre
    28 October 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    Star Wars The Force Unleashed is an excellent game, with more than I expected from a Star Wars game. It's worth playing over a few times. The only complaint is it's too short. I have both the Wii and the 360 version, and I definitely recommend the 360 version for refined graphics, story-line and physics. Read more

  3. Star Wars The Force Unleashed

    Reviewer: PriceGrabber
    20 September 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    I love this game. Great game play and good graphics. Plenty of levels and you can have alternate endings, also you get to play the dark side and on the good side, which allows you to play from different point of views. I would recommend this game to adults and older kids. Read more

  4. Star Wars the forced unleased

    Reviewer: Amazon
    23 December 2009
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    Star War the force unleashed you play as star killer who is Darth Vaders secret apprentice and is dispatched by his master to kill the Jedi who survived Palpatine's Jedi purge. 1. Great Graphics 2. Very limited but great force power that make jedi who why are 3. very creative eviroments 4. Tons of abilitys to learn 5. Pretty fun 6. Chose from 2 ending 7. Pretty decent story that gets better later on Neutral 1. Combo's with saber are very limited 2. there are only 3... Read more

  5. Power Leads To Corruption

    Reviewer: SammyB, Game Informer
    24 December 2009
    Overall 7
    7.2
     

    This high-powered, intense Star Wars game is a good game, first and foremost. Is it as good as it could have been, or as the hype made gamers think it would be? Not really. Allow me to explain... THE SETUP: The Force Unleashed's story has been made official canon, so many might be wondering how the tale is...it's alright. You play as Darth Vader's apprentice, who is found by former-Annakin on Kashykkk. Vader just killed his father, so naturally, he'd steal the kid and... Read more

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