A demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was recently released on PSN/XBL and as a big Star Wars fan I jumped at the chance to try the eagerly anticipated LucasArts game.

One thing that I picked up whilst watching ‘making-of’ videos of SW:TFU was their intent to let players “kick ass” with the force as much as possible. And boy does that intent get through. Within five minutes of the start of the demo (which stands at a meaty 1.6GB) I was able to pick up and throw a TIE fighter at those pesky rebel troops.

What was disappointing though was the lack of strength of the lightsaber had, most notably when compared to one of my favourite games of all time, PS1 epic: Star Wars: Episode 1 Power Battles. I never really felt the need to use the series’ iconic weapon when I could do so much more damage with the force powers given. But maybe in the full game there will be combos available to make fighting with the lightsaber more fun.

Also a disappointment was the voice of Darth Vader in the game. I guess after watching the original trilogy more than thirty times I was probably going to pick up on every little inaccuracy in the voice. But the voice acting isn’t so bad that I was disappointed by what was a very fun, if short demo.

Matt

Writer’s note: Mace Windu is awesome.

Labels: Demo Impressions, Matthew, Matthew Meadows, Star Wars

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