Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

[Failed]

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.

[Astrex]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Release Date

On 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!

[GamerMan316]

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?"

[GamerMan316]

That's No Moon, It's A Force Unleashed II Collector's Edition



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

[Astrex]

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 

[RedMaster11]

The exchange rate isn't that bad just yet! It will be about £50.

[Astrex]

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! 

[GamerMan316]

It's around £55 I think 

[Astrex]

Mr Witwer holding the sabres did it for me 

[sambo]

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.

[Failed]

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?

[GamerMan316]

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."

[Failed]

All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina

[DFUSIONITE]

All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina

LMAO 

[nCogNeato]

Boba Fett is in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Boom.

All Boba Fett ever did was stand around looking cool .... well until he got eaten by a sand vagina

Boom, indeed.