Star Wars The Force Unleashed Video Game

Star Wars The Force Unleashed Video Game

Quite possibly the best Video Game Release scheduled for 2008. The story takes place during the ultra dark times between Episode 3 of the Prequels and Episode 4 the first of the original films. It is said that once you play this game and experience the story you can never again imagine Star Wars without this part of the story. It is During these times Darth Vader trains his own apprentice in secret to help him hunt down the remaining Jedi and also secretly prepare to overthrow the emperor and take his place as the new ruler of the universe. As always Lucas Arts is pushing the envelope with new technologies, new animation techniques. For the force unleashed Lucas Arts is leveraging the power and their relationship with Industrial Light and Magic creating a video game where the Actors are digitally mapped from the actual actors using Facial Motion Capture technology

"The Force Unleashed script is pared down considerably in terms of expository dialogue, because we're trying to convey a lot more through a look or an expression. While previous-generation games did a lot with their character animation and dialogue, this next-generation approach will achieve unprecedented subtlety of expression and nuance of performance. Now a single look can speak volumes."- Lucas Arts Website

But what will truly set this game apart are its animation and game play engines, bringing new realism to gaming and taking full advantage of the next generation gaming consoles.

"As its name implies, The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force by taking full advantage of newly developed technologies that will be seen and experienced for the first time: Digital Molecular Matter (DMM), by Pixelux Entertainment, and euphoria by NaturalMotion Ltd. Paired with the powerful Havok Physics system, these new technologies create gameplay only possible on the new generation of consoles. DMM incorporates the physical properties of anything in the environment so that everything reacts exactly like it should - wood breaks like wood, glass shatters like glass, plants on the planet Felucia bend like plants on the planet Felucia would, and more. Meanwhile, as a revolutionary behavioral-simulation engine, euphoria enables interactive characters to move, act and even think like actual human beings, adapting their behavior on the fly and resulting in a different payoff every single time."- Lucas Arts Website

With these new technologies enemies you send flying across the room or force to fall from heights react to their environment. They will try to grab objects and each other in attempts to save or preserve their lives and those of their comrades, objects in the environment will take their motions and their weight into consideration. So, as illustrated on Lucas arts website a broken beam will react to a storm trooper grabbing onto it with weight and movement by breaking further or collapsing under the new extra strain. The wood will splinter according to where and how it is being stressed and everything will react to the other objects or characters in the scene accordingly. This brings new realism to the new consoles and creates a game that will react differently to your game play in accordance with all elements of the scenery. The scenes are not pre animated but rather respond on the fly to your gameplay. but avideo says much more so here's the trailer

For the fans what really makes this game one everyone will want to play is that they are also pushing the limits of what we think of when it comes to the force. The force unleashed says it all.
The Force unchained unrestricted.

In this story the main character Darth Vader's secret apprentice unleashes the force with almost reckless abandon. So strong in the force and so willing to use it for attack and defense that he can take down an entire Star destroyer as you can view in the Trailer clip on Lucas arts website. We see the force used in combinations and to the extreme, almost out of control, Force pushes not just slamming enemies against a wall but sending enemies right through the walls, Lightning attacks combined with Chokes lifting then slamming the enemies bodies down while struck by lightning to explode the enemies as if they were grenades. Master Yoda would not approve of this use of force, but there in lies the easier path, the lure of the darkside.

In this destined to be game of the year, we will explore the use of the force as it has never before been experienced. The Force Unparalleled
In Unleashed, players will take on the persona of Vader's (as-yet unnamed) dark apprentice. Lightsaber in hand, you'll journey forth to lay devastation upon a host of Rebel targets, cutting down Alliance and Imperial troops with equal ferocity, leaving no traces of the enemy-and no friendly witnesses to your passage-behind. At your command will be four Force powers: push, repulse, grip, and lightning.
Now, compared with some older franchise installments such as the Jedi Knight series, four Force powers may seem somewhat measly. What makes Unleashed's repertoire unique is the ability to chain the powers into destructive combos. You could, for instance, drive your lightsaber into the ground and release a torrential repulsion shockwave that flings a ring of surrounding enemies in all directions, only to catch one in a vice-grip in mid-air. Pummel your newfound target with a few bolts of Force lightning, and you've got yourself a charged bomb that you can then 'forcibly' push into another group of enemies, dispelling all of them with a single human explosion.