Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 revealed, intense
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The world's coolest Jedi, Samuel L. Jackson (suck it, Yoda) has just taken the stage at the 2009 Video Game Awards to reveal Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. In the announcement trailer -- Darth Vader's once apprentice -- codenamed "Starkiller" steps into a dark arena only to be faced with a creature hellbent on his destruction. Thankfully, Starkiller -- armed with two light sabers -- pounces to attack the gargantuan foe. Sadly, it was all CG, but we'll take any new Force Unleashed we can get.
I'll post the video once i've found it :)
LucasArts developing The Force Unleashed 2 internally, hiring for 'other unannounced products'
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It didn't take a Jedi Master to conclude that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed would be getting a sequel -- after all, it met with tremendous success, ranking as the fastest-selling Star Wars video game of all time and moving more than six million copies to date. Still, LucasArts laid off a majority of the team that developed it before the game even hit shelves, so many that our source at the time told Joystiq that the remaining group would be insufficient to produce a sequel should one be ordered.
So, now that The Force Unleashed 2 is officially happening, we naturally began to wonder: who's making the game? When asked for comment on the topic, LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez told Joystiq, "Our internal team here in San Francisco will be focused on the game in addition to other development partners. The San Francisco team is made up of TFU veterans who are all bringing their hard earned muscle memory to the development process." Rodriguez didn't elaborate on who these "development partners" are, but it's clear that a core team at the company's Northern California HQ is only part of the development effort.
Rodriguez did not remark on whether any new staff is being hired to work on the title internally, but did reveal to us that LucasArts is "also currently hiring for some other unannounced products that we are internally developing as well." We're just going to assume that none of the staff who received pink slips last summer will be sending in resumes.
That looks ace. I have started the first one and got distracted but enjoyed what I played
Samuel L Jackson was not the worlds coolest Jedi he sucked. ;)
Quote from: TaraJayne on December 17, 2009, 04:23:13 PM
That looks ace. I have started the first one and got distracted but enjoyed what I played
Samuel L Jackson was not the worlds coolest Jedi he sucked. ;)
If Sam's not the coolest, who is?
Lord Vader
Quote from: TaraJayne on December 17, 2009, 05:37:30 PM
Lord Vader
He's a Sith though, no longer a Jedi, so who would be the coolest Jedi?
Quote from: GamerMan316 on December 17, 2009, 05:40:12 PM
coolest Jedi?
Me. Duh!
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that goes without saying really :)
Chewbacca is the bestest Jedi
its not skywalker thats fo rsure cannot wait for this game loved the first eevn though i did get stuck and sold it gonna have to buy it again and keep tryimg me thinks bloody star destroyers lmao
Definite rental for me, but then I rent pretty much everything these days :)
I enjoyed the first game.
The first was my most wanted game on the 360, Was a little disappointed with it really. It started well then just repeated the same levels. I will no doubt get this as I'm a bit of a Star Wars nut. I just won't be as enthusiastic about it come release time.
I'm a SW nut too, and I thought it was exceptionally disappointing, I traded it in without even getting 10% of the way through it, the gameplay was hust atrocious... definitely won't be buying a sequel unless they improve upon it by about 1000%
I thought the game was great, brilliant graphics, story and iconic sound. The gameplay was a bit samey, but i like my hack n'slash 'ems and they're all like that tbh.
It could have done with some more complex combos.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Release DateOn a very apt day for Star Wars news, LucasArts today announced that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II now has a confirmed release date, scheduled to drop on October 26th.
The follow-up to 2008's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was originally announced via a teaser trailer at December's Spike TV VGA Awards.
You can watch that trailer again if you want via the external link below, if you want to see some hints about what's happened to Starkiller since the end of the first game, as he describes his holiday to Tijuana, and how he broke his coccyx playing soccer with the locals. That last bit may be a lie. The trailer does have voice overs from Yoda and Darth Vader though and hints at the game's plot, seeing Starkiller fight between good and evil.
LucasArts are keeping most of the game's details under wraps at the moment, but have said that the full scoop will be in the next issue of GamePro magazine, and no doubt more info at E3 next month!
Lucas vetoed Wookiee open-world game
George Lucas once personally vetoed the idea of a Star Wars game where you play as a Wookiee in an "open world", "over the top-style superhero game", apparently, suggesting King Ewok hasn't gone completely off the rails after all.
Lucas was pitched the idea by LucasArts veteran Haden Blackman, as he told the June 2010 issue of GamePro.
"At one point we were kicking around an idea where you were playing a Wookiee," he said. As well as being an open-world game, you would "be running around, and you'd be able to grab the heads of AT-STs and throw them at stormtroopers".
However, Lucas wasn't having any of it.
"He just looked at me and said, 'I just spent the last half hour talking to you about the importance of characters talking to each other, and you pitch me a game idea where the main character can't talk?"
That's No Moon, It's A Force Unleashed II Collector's Edition
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LucasArts is giving Star Wars collectors something to drop an extra twenty on with the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II collector's edition, complete with fancy packaging, digital goodies and a super-deformed Starkiller clone on which to store stuff.
Sure, Starkiller with a swollen head and/or USB interface sticking out of that engorged noggin is less intimidating than a Sith apprentice should be, but think of the content storage. Two whole gigabytes! Retailer GameStop is listing the collector's edition of The Force Unleashed II at $79.99 USD, packing it with all this stuff. Worth it?
* Premium Collectible Steelbook
* Exclusive In-Game Content
* Three exclusive challenge mode levels
* Exclusive character skins
* Exclusive Lightsaber crystal
* Exclusive Mimobot USB Designer Drive Preloaded with Bonus Content
* Starkiller 2GB Flash Drive designed by Mimobot
* Digital art book, featuring insights into the art of The Force Unleashed II
Hmmmm that looks so damn Tasty!!!
But $80 would be about £70 here and I'm not to sure if that's even worth it ???
The exchange rate isn't that bad just yet! It will be about £50.
Quote from: RedMaster11 on June 09, 2010, 08:26:32 AM
The exchange rate isn't that bad just yet! It will be about £50.
Frak it! I'm in! as soon as I see this pop up as a preorder I might bag it! ;D
It's around £55 I think :)
Mr Witwer holding the sabres did it for me :P
PREVIEW:
How do you solve the problem of resurrecting a fallen Jedi for a completely new game? Fans of The Force Unleashed have waited patiently for the answer, and the team behind its sequel are more than poised to deliver the twisty, epic solution.
At the close of the first game, your character, Starkiller, had to make a choice. Raised as Vader's secret apprentice, you learn that you were nothing but a tool for Vader to sniff out his enemies. Though the finale gave you two paths to choose from, the canon ending saw your death at the hands of Emperor Palpatine.
"We knew we wanted to bring back Starkiller," lead writer Haden Blackman tells us. "We're very attached to him." So, after the series' trademark 'text crawl', we learn that the Rebel Alliance may still be ragtag, but it's now growing in power against the Empire.
On the world of Kamino, Vader's ship touches down at an isolated facility to visit a training room cloaked in shadow. Chained to a wall is Starkiller, who Vader promptly releases shortly before revealing that his former apprentice is, indeed, a clone.
With only fragmented memories, Starkiller finds himself up you-know-what creek without a paddle. As this clone, you don't know what to believe - how many of your thoughts and memories are your own? Vader preys on your confusion, convincing you that you exist expressly to do his bidding.
This opening sequence also pits you against hologram droids who can assume the guise of different characters. One transforms into Starkiller's love interest from the previous game, Juno Eclipse, and this proves to be your catalyst. "Every time he goes to strike down Juno, he can't," Blackman says. "He's overwhelmed by emotion, by memories of her - presumably from the real Starkiller's experience in the first game." Vader then reveals that you are (dun-dun-DUN!) a failed clone - one whose inherent glitches often drive clones insane. But the joke's on him as you make your escape to avoid your inevitable termination.
With such potential in the storytelling department, the team has also focused on refining mechanics like improving the aim and controls when using Force Grip to grab objects or people and throw them around. Your powers also come in new flavours: Jedi Mind Trick works sort of like the Hypnotise power in BioShock, letting you temporarily turn enemies against each other until they explode, while Force Fury lets you briefly amp up all of your powers for max destruction.
From our early glimpses, it's clear that LucasArts wants to improve the successful formula it's established with Force Unleashed - we're totally ready to resume abusing the Force.
hmmm i was wondering how they'd bring Starkiller back, the clone thing might work really well with a strong pyschological angle.... not knowing if
your the real one or your really are a clone, wether your memories are real. Could be good, i can see a big cliffhanger coming.
Bring on Unleashed 3 .... too soon? :P
Boba Fett in Force Unleashed II
Intergalactic planetary... Bounty hunter Boba Fett is in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Boom.
The news emerged last night from Comic-Con, San Diego.
Yesterday publisher Activision held a preview event for the game in London, and the lovely Keza MacDonald was there for Eurogamer. Here's what she told us in an email last night:
"Boba Fett is totally in the game, but you don't get to play him or anything. Darth Vader hires him to hunt down Juno, the love interest from the first game, in order to lure Starkiller's clone into his grasp.
"Fett's in the game as a response to fans' requests for more iconic Star Wars characters to liven up Force Unleashed's created universe."
All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina :P
Quote from: Failed on July 23, 2010, 09:50:21 AM
All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina :P
LMAO :D
Quote from: GamerMan316 on July 23, 2010, 09:35:03 AM
Boba Fett is in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Boom.
Quote from: Failed on July 23, 2010, 09:50:21 AM
All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina :P
Boom, indeed.
Achievements (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/star-wars-the-force-unleashed-2/achievements/)
oh god YES! -orgasm-
i cannot waitt!!!!
Sam Witwer is totally my new husband..
Force Unleashed II demo next week
LucasArts has revealed (http://www.starwars.com/games/videogames/tfu2_demo/index.html) that the demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II will be released next week on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
The date give is 12th October, although we imagine that will translate to Wednesday 13th in Europe as far as the PSN update is concerned.
The demo level, taken from the beginning of the game, involves Starkiller becoming tormented by the memories of his past, unleashing the power of dual lightsabers and Jedi mind tricks, and beginning a journey in search of the truth and a woman he cannot forget.
Sounds dramatic. The game proper is out on 29th October, on 360, PC and PS3, but there's no word of a PC demo.
I enjoyed the first one and will try the demo.
But i wont be getting it day one as it's foolishly chosen the same release date as rock band 3, i know where my money will go that day.
I'm a big Star Wars fan, but I really didn't like The Force Unleashed so I won't be getting this.
Just started playing this and if you like the first game then you'll enjoy this too as it's pretty much all the same as the first game.
General Jedi badassery abound, massive bosses with the best QTE's in a game. A much darker story but the graphics have improved and the combat is fluid. The holocrons are a little easier to find this time, the camera is still dodgy but the main let down, a massive let down is the huge amount of ingame lag.... HOW?! who knows, probably all the fancy lightning and force sh*t going on.
Still it's a great slice of Star Wars, with the iconic music style and even scenes that change just like they did in the old movies.
great fun, bad lag.
is it worth playing the first game or is it easy enough to jump into the sequel?
If the story is important to you yeah but otherwise no
I would get the first one if you never played it. You should get it really cheap and if you enjoy it then the second will be coming down in price soon enough. When the score whores start trading it in a week later
The first game, while a bit repetitive, was good, far too short though as this will no doubt be so it's a rental for me, like pretty much everything these days. :)
Quote from: Lukehi on November 06, 2010, 11:57:40 PM
is it worth playing the first game or is it easy enough to jump into the sequel?
you MUST play the first game, the story is a continuation from the first and the first game has better tutorials. TFU2 assumes you've played the first game, so doesn't really hold your hand and is much harder than the 1st game.
On a great note, i've just unlocked a Guy Theekbrush alternate costume.... RANDOM!
I've had the first game for a while, but have yet to open it. I'm really liking what I'm seeing in the sequel, so I've moved my unopened copy of the first game at the top of my "when-I-get-around-to-it" list. :)
The 2nd game is etremely short too, i'm right near the last boss and i've played about 5 hours
Kill Ewoks in Force Unleashed II DLC woohoo ;D
The first downloadable add-on for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is set on the forest moon of Endor and sees players kill perhaps the cutest aliens ever conceived: the Ewoks.
It's set during the time of classic film The Return of the Jedi, but presents a "what if?" scenario, according to IGN. It's all part of the "infinite universe", see.
The Endor Bonus Mission, as it's called, adds new Achievements and Trophies. "One of the team's favourite is the 'Sith Kicker Achievement' but I'll let you figure that one out for yourselves," executive producer Gio Corsi said.
It's of comparable length to the add-ons from the first game, such as the Hoth Bonus Mission. Starkiller will have the same abilities as he did in TFUII, so he's incredibly powerful from the start – but the DLC assumes players picked the Dark Side ending. Boo hiss etc.
The Endor Bonus Mission will be released "later this year". No price was mentioned.
The Force Unleashed II launched last month. John Teti awarded it 5/10 for Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-26-star-wars-the-force-unleashed-ii-review).
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;D