Star Wars The Force Unleashed [All Formats] (General/Non Spoiler Discussion)

Well, in the video, the Jedi killed 3 stormtroopers. In order 66, they had like a bazillion clones after them, and they were caught off guard.

 

The video wasnt even of in-game graphics. It was a pre-rendered trailer of what they want the game to be... Hopefully their actual engine will look almost as pretty, but i doubt it. Any word on when an actual game will be announced? Like an announcement for when an announcement will take place?

 

Yeah, you really need to look no further than Battlefront II in order to find a game that has good graphics but OK at best gameplay. Hopefully LA will have the clairvoyance to release a game that's original and innovative in some way, less it becomes just another clone of Outcast or Academy. If that's the case, then not only will LA have beaten a dead horse, they'll have beaten it badly enough that you can't even make glue out of it if you wanted to.

 

I dunno, it has some promise. Looks awesome atm!

If they do it right they should have a really good story, and the way that Hyperspace is hyping it (no pun intended) it might be really great!

I might be reading into it to much but i got the feeling they were taking the jedi in a new direction ie: those being hunted down have become....angry. "A jedi use's the force for knowledge and defence, never for attack" well these jedi seem to have thrown that away! if they take that angle it could get interesting!

 

If it was just a game, it would be pretty cool, but as people have said before it seems to use excessive amounts of force power to kill lame stormtroopers. Very un-jedi and un-starwars.

Worlds Apart is kinda of a fitting title I guess, but it's strange that, if it continues on the path that it is on, it will be a "star wars" game because it's so un-star warsy.

If it lost the Star Wars copywrite tag or whatever, and was just called Worlds Apart or Force Unleashed maybe it wouldn't feel quite so... 'wrong'!

/shrugs/

We'll see...

 

If it was just a game

By this I meant "not a star wars labelled game".

 

I hope that Nym and the pirates from Starfighter will be in this game;it's got Hayden Blackman at the helm.

 

Can anyone post some of these screen shots? My IT department blocks the site.

 

I wouldn't mind an RPG/FPS game where you were a bounty hunter and you had to track down targets. AKA, Star Wars Bounty Hunter 2.

 

Bingo found it on Youtube!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=48P7Z-AL8Ks&search=comic%20con%202006

 

i like the look of that game but i feel soory for the last stormtrooper being thrown around like that.did anyone notice the stormtrooper trying to grab his gun when he was floating?

 

*blinks*
How were the Jedi defeated if they could do this stuff on a whim?
That's the essential question never asked by any EU writer.
The Jedi were defeated. How?
The problem is, now we know how, and if any ol' Jedi could do stuff like this Order 66 and the Temple March just don't seem plausible.

 

Well, for one thing, I'm not sure they could. It may be a gameplay mechanics issue, and gameplay mechanics are not considered to affect canon.

But let's look at it in another way. For one thing, this sort of display demonstrates a tremendous burst of sheer power. I'm not sure this kind of display is logically supported by the calm, even light side. I think it may require passion and anger and emotion as fuels, which would make it dark side-oriented. And, as others have pointed out, the Jedi use the force for knowledge and defence, never for attack. So it could be that the Jedi don't do this sort of thing because it is of the dark side and they will not let themselves do it. Now, after the destruction of the entire Jedi order, some of the Jedi have finally snapped and just don't care anymore. As others have pointed out, that would be a very interesting place for this game to go.

-Paul

 

This isn't just coming out for PS3 right, it will be xbox 360 as well?

 

Oh I'll still play it if I have the correct system.
Just little questions like that bug me.
The movies set up tricks like chucking senate pods to be extremely impressive. The Jedi here look like they could do that without breaking a sweat.

 

I wouldn't mind if this was a JO/JA type game. As long as the story is strong and compelling. Throw some new force power mechanics in the mix and I'm happy.

 

The Clone Wars cartoon had Mace Windu push open a 500 ft perimeter around himself. I know Clone Wars is over the top, but I still find it a little hard to believe that the jedi could have been overthrown by stormtroopers, no matter how many. The possibility of Force-speeding your self way out of there would always be present. I mean, if you managed to survive the surprise ambush in the first place, then after that it would be hard to gather a posse of a gazillion troopers outside your door without you knowing, wouldn't it?

EDIT: spelling

 

Yeah, but we both know none of the Jedi at the temple were as awesome as Mace (they weren't as powerful either)

edit- none of the Jedi that were off on missions survived their ambush. Only Obi-Wan and Yoda. So everyone at the temple was being ambushed for the first time.

 

That may be true for now. But you can bet they are going to cook up EU stories that chronicles the stories of jedi who did survive the first ambush and are being hunted down in the mid-ep3-ep4-era. And, as you see many already presume that to be the premise for this very game, though no info about the time period has been released so far.

 

Never read Purge? Dark Lord? Republic comics?

Lots of Jedi survived their ambushes. Though I doubt any of them warned the temple.

 

About 200 Jedi survived Order 66, according to LFL.

 

This will be great STAR WARS 2007 on XBOX 360 and PLAYSTATION 3

 

Something I noticed in the vid. This may belong on the Potential Changes Thread but notice that several times we see a stormtrooper with what looks like yellow rank markings. Is this just a transitional effect connecting the stormtroopers to the clones or is it a hint of things to come?

 

I'd wager a transition thing. Enough changed overnight to make everything safe and OT that I'd take damn near any transition at this point

The destroyers at the end of RotS were purposely left colorless to match the OT, so I can't see them going back and adding color here and there.

 

Ok, I feel a need to post here.
First, the images of this new game, as I gather it, are very well prgressed jedi.
Second, it is not just plain having strength, it is what you do with it and in what manner. The tricky thing about a gizzilion clones is quite simply a matter alinged with the basterdization of the force(ie the need for balance by the chosen one) Palpatines massive grip and the force influxions of all so influenced by the polotics of sith presence. In short, to tap good strength is not the same as to preserve good rienforcement. Infact you ar e either consuming or producing when siituations litterally get ass ass-tightening as star wars situations. That's what really made yoda the man, well clondorian.