The Force Unleashed

Anyone here planning on the new game coming out soon 'The Force Unleashed' sadly it isnt being released for PC (again, I miss out on good game) but I like the idea of it on the Nintendo Wii... thing is, fo I spend big money on the console and a TV (thats right, I dont own a TV, Its built into my PC) for this or what?

Anyway, anyone had a look at the demo vids yet? what do you think... just a friendly discussion thread not a debate on best console etc

MTFBWY - A

I watch those vids all the time! I don't remember waiting for anything with such anticipation! Well, except for the births of my kiddos.

I'm surprised that it's not going to be put out for PC. They're making it for PS2, PS3, PSP, DS, XBOX360, and Wii, so most of us are covered.

If you have the extra scratch, then I say go for it, Rich! I'm trying to talk my wife into letting my buy the Wii console so I can get this game on a next generation platform. I think I have her about convinced. I'm playing the *ahem* EXERCISE angle with this one, and it's working rather well!

Well, this may interest you, im planning on making a proper saber hilt and making it into a wii remote

probably sell it on flea bay if i dont keep it but yeah, if i do go for it, i'll buy the wii and game as a package... just I bought a PS2 purely for grand tourismo and was very disappointedly, i think a PS2 is too weak for this game

Somehow..... I'm not surprised at all!

Indeed. I think that the PS2 version will be a fun game, but nowhere NEAR the experience that the next generation consoles can deliver.

Especially the Wii!

I hope that it plays well on the PS2. I'm really excited to see how it is, it looks really good.

I don't know how well the PS2 version will stand up to the PS3, Wii, and Xbox360 versions of the game, but I WILL be buying the PS2 version of it. My dusty old, clunky first-gen PS2 deserves it. LOL!

I've had that thing since the day before My first son, Korbyn was born. It's been taken apart and put back together so many times that Humpty Dumpty won't stop calling me for advice.

I feel that it's reliability and hours upon hours of enjoyment have earned it the chance to play this title.

And I'm willing to wager that the 40 bucks I spend on the game will be worth it.

But then again, I've never really played a bad SW game.

Empire at war is a bad one, its not that i am against RTS games, far from it (I have every total war title, all company of heroes and all the Warhammer 40k titles, so Ive played 1 or 2 RTS )

another well, not bad, but not great is episode 1 racer but thats just a racing game with pods so doesnt truly count as a Star Wars game for me.

I had considered the PS2 version of TFU but having seen the footage of xbx et al well, lets be honest, even a PS2 doesnt quite cut it anymore, I am keeping a look out for a 2nd hand console, I will probably go for the Wii version tho, just like the idea of the controls and ive seen a fishing game for the Wii too

I didn't like Empire at war, or Galaxies. They both are really cool games, and galaxies has the most you can do. But the fighting system should have been different, and the quests were all the same. Oh and it takes you forty gameplay hours to get a lightsaber, and even then you aren't good enough to defeat all the enemies.

i dont no but most of
u i really liked the
force unleashed but the
1 thin that really got
me mad was how the game
was short i mean it was
alsome but they could of
but alot more in2 it and
made it longer and but in
some other cool things in
it i mean they worked on
it 4 5 years but over all
the game was kick ass

Karol Fett

I must say, TFU is a great game. I loved every minute of it, the story line is pretty good, and you do get to choose at the end (spoiler) to be bad or good. I recommend finishing it both ways. For the most part though, you are set in pretty much everything you have to do as far as mission is concerned which is something I despise. I loved the KOTOR games because you had more freedom of mission order, actions and words. I can't wait til Oct 21st incase you didn't hear, there will be a major announcement concerning a possible KOTOR era, RPG (think Galaxies in the Real old republic). All in all, TFU was great graphics and some force moves we haven't previously seen.

DK

My wife bought me TFU for PS2 as an anniversary present. I loved it. Up until I beat it merely 7 hours after I had unwrapped it, and was good and drunk at the time.....

On the replay, my 4 year-old son can stomp the game. But he doesn't like to fight the bosses. (He's a bit young to be able to master the finishing button sequences.)

It's a great game, for sure. But it isn't what it's been hyped up to be. As far as console games go, it's better than Ep.III.

I hope that the XBox360, Wii, and PS3 versions are better.

The storyline is OK. It makes sense. For the most part. But it leaves ends untied.

I, for one don't get how someone that was strong enough to defeat Vader, was spared by the Emperor, and demoted to \"Sith Stalker\" and is never heard from again.

Also, I don't find it plausible that Starkiller dies while using the Force to cause a massive explosion to take down the Death Star, and yet the Death Star survives, as well as Vader and Palpatine, despite the fact that Starkiller has completely defeated both Sith Lords in single combat.

Starkiller comes back to the light side of things mid way through, and becomes so powerful that he can kick Vader's and Palpatine's asses. But we never hear from him again????????? He would be legendary in my opinion. And his tale would surely have been passed down at least to Luke. And no doubt, Yoda would have felt his presence. Even Obi-Wan would have known of him through the folks that Starkiller pushed into starting the rebellion.

Seriously... He stomped his Master's ass, and went on to beat the hell out of the Emperor, and ANAKIN is the chosen one?

I'm not getting it.

Maybe I need to read some more SWTEU books?

Fun game though. Even if it makes absolutely no sense to anyone that has read any of the books. It fits right in with the movies storyline though.

Don't even get me started on how people that were killed before, actually weren't killed, but survived secretly until Starkiller had the chance to meet them again.

It could have been done better. But I do like it.

It was a fun game but to much like god of war.I really just liked unlocking things and Messing around the story was loose left allot of gaps and they said that you would be hunting jedi not killing a few and then becoming one.Really im just nitpicking over all it was a good game but the hyp killed it.

One other thing was that both starKiller and Vader were in soul calibur along with Yoda but Yoda didn't get to fight.One thing i Never liked is how yoda has yet to have a Fight were he wins.I was really hoping that he would have killed starkiller.I mean He fought Ducky and Count Ducky just ran away and When he fought Palpatine he fell and had to run.To me it just seems like they should have used Yoda after going through the trouble of making him.

TFU (for PS2 anyway) is only what id call an 'ok' game, 6 or 7 out of 10

Why it isnt out for PC i dont know, Jedi Academy and Outcast are MUCH better than TFU.

It llooks pretty good even for a now ageing console, the details like the flow of clothing, the movement of the sabers etc is all very spot on (hard to notice these things when in mid fight, but when youve done the game a few times and are on max power for everything, you get time to play as in play time, and spot all these things).

I have 197/200 holocrons, and all the hilts n crystals n costumes. Now the costumes are disappointing, simply because, if you play a level with a 'custom skin' ie any character other than the base Starkiller, you cant view cut scenes. Also, you cant independently select levels, if you have a favourite level, you have to do the whole game again to replay it.

The auto save is only of use if you get spanked in a fight n replay, if you turn the play station off you have to restart the level from the start... some levels are very long and this can be a pain.

If i were to buy a different console, I think I would get this game, just to see how different the levels and graphics are from the PS2 version, but I wouldnt call this a 'must have game' even for starwars freaks.

I collect the starwars games (for pc, like wise tombraider) and I am very confident in saying this game would have been so much better had ot been designed for PC.

I do not however want to see yet another later release for pc and find its simply a XBOX port, more often than not, they stink.

Not a bad game, not a great game either (and no multiplayer on ps2 either) as I suspected would be the case, all hype, the online movies are pretty much the best bit of the game dumped together to make small movies.

If anyone is really interested, I could bash together a video of the ps2 version as I run mine thru my pctv card (no tv atm, have to use my pc for it )

Anyway... dont ask for it for xmas, dont be in a hurry to buy it, wait for it to be released in the budget ranges or rent it... 2days max will see anyone complete the game anyway and very little to go back for (unless like me you insist on ALL the pickups )

MTFBWY - A

if they make the next game
lik KOTOR the same way they
made this game that would be
ALL SOME i lov how u can hav
stormtroopers throwin round
it nev gets old haha

I heard that the next KOTOR is going to be an online MMO

Kana Seiko Haruki wrote:

Also, you cant independently select levels, if you have a favourite level, you have to do the whole game again to replay it.

Yeah you can .You cant pick parts of it but you can pick your levels.Thats how i unlocded every thing there was no way that i would have played the game all the way through over and over just to get every thing.

In the Pause menu there is a button called Missions I think you can also get to it from the main menu.Any way thats how I was able to get every thing.

Not on my version of PS2 TFU

anyway, pretty much completed it now (as in found EVERYTHING) anyway, so not a biggie

MTFBWY - A

I concur with Rich. No level select for me either. Despite my trying like crazy to figure out a way. It just can't be done on PS2.

I could go on for hours about the shortcomings of this game. Like, the camera angles that the computer assigns are a total piece of crap and hurt you alot.

And the fact that unless you've amped yourself up with saber crystals, your lightsaber is more like a club than a saber. I mean, we've seen these things cut through walls, and dissect enemies with minimal effort. Yet, in this game, it takes a good three or four impalements or slashes to take down some of the lesser enemies. That is, unless, of course, the Intergalactic Universe has somehow managed to find a way to use cortosis in everything.

Give me a game where not only are the Force powers awesome, but the lightsabers do the damage that they're supposed to do. To everyone. I'd love it if I was half a second faster than Vader and managed to kill him with one solid thrust with my saber, rather than dancing around for 15 minutes trying to gain an opportunity to whip a box at him, or slam him against a wall, or electrocute him. And I don't know about you guys, but I'd be happier dying if I wasted time trying to do some elaborate Force move, and get decapitated for my efforts, than by licking my wounds and running around looking for the nearest health suppliment after I got shown how stupid my first attack was.

The camera angle thing is a dog in one on one boss fights, the first thing to do is press the R2 button (i think its that one) and it unlocks the camera again your pretty much stuck with a Mortal Kombat style view but its easier to fight this way (and youll spot the holocrons better)

Also the best weapon in the game is the Blaster Block most enemies will kill themselves this way and push is best power (or grip, think of the term 'dropping them off' to understand this

I could right an idiots guide to spank this game but it would ruin it for everyone

This was a well developed game but, there was much I was disappointed about. I didn't like how short the game seemed, I beat it in one night. I didn't like how you had little control over your character like you have in KOTOR. I also wished it went more into detail about things such as his early training and some more levels. I liked how you could change your clothes and lightsaber but everything was just so simple. Ofcourse the graphics were great and the storyline was good. It was a good game but nothing special.