Even heavy metal doors aboard ships and space stations can be buckled by the Force. This is how it works from here on out: Sith Lords don't open doors. A few more blasts and it's off its hinges entirely. No problem - blast it with the Force Push ability, and the gate strains inwards as metal buckles and wood splinters. The very first problem you encounter is an enormous wood and metal gate, which stands at the entrance to the Wookiee village. With you playing as a Dark Side character, The Force in this game is a heavy-duty power - enabled by a comprehensive physics and AI engine that lets enemies and objects alike react realistically to the abilities you're flinging about the place.
Gone are the wimpy, special-case Force powers of previous games. The Apprentice does fancy lightning, which makes him popular at nightclubs and parties.Īs you progress, the game starts to make good on its Force Unleashed promise. Off to either side, troop deployments and AT-ST walkers ravage the forest. Overhead, Star Destroyer-style ships hum through the atmosphere. Accompanied by the Imperial March, black cloak billowing in the wind, you stalk through the level trying out the various powers at your disposal as the game prompts you. The introduction to the game's controls is almost buried under an opening level that's bombastic, graphically stunning and incredibly good fun. By way of a prologue and tutorial level, you're given charge of the ultimate Dark Side fantasy - you play Darth Vader, slaughtering countless yowling furry beasts in an all-out assault on the Wookiee homeworld. It's promising, then, that pretty much the first thing it does is break some of the unspoken and restrictive rules of Star Wars games to date. Moreover, it's arguably the first real attempt to reinvigorate the Star Wars brand in videogames after a series of utterly lacklustre games punctuated only by the fantastic (and non-LucasArts) LEGO Star Wars titles.
It's also the first outing for LucasArts' much-hyped new engine technology. The Force Unleashed, of course, has a lot to prove and not just because of its ambitious name.
Even more recently, we sat down with the functionally identical Xbox 360 and PS3 builds of LucasArts' latest to see how they do. If you're going to make a promise like that, you'd better come up with the goods.
In the programme, the writer mused over the choice of name, saying in effect that if you're going to call a play "Contains Violence" it had bloody well better do, or else the audience may decide to invent their own. I went to see a play recently called "Contains Violence".
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