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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)

LucasArts

Legacy Mobile Device · N-Gage · PlayStation 3 · Xbox 360 · iOS

3.38 from 2860 ratings

7168 members have it in their collection · 85 playing now · 1962 backlogged · 421 wish listed

How long? Main story 8h · with extras 13h · 100% 23h (from 18 logged playthroughs)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a Star Wars video game that takes place between the films Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. It is the centerpiece of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed multimedia project, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force … Read more
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a Star Wars video game that takes place between the films Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. It is the centerpiece of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed multimedia project, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force and casts players as Darth Vader’s "Secret Apprentice," unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy seen through the eyes of a mysterious new character armed with unprecedented powers. The game showcases Digital Molecular Matter (DMM), an extremely detailed and realistic material physics engine developed by Pixelux, and Euphoria, a realistic bio-mechanical A.I. engine by NaturalMotion Read less
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Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts, THQ Wireless
Genres
Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Science fiction
Franchises
Star Wars
Series
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Event
Sony E3 2008 Press Conference
Steam
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Release dates

  • Sep 16, 2008 (North_America) Legacy Mobile Device, N-Gage, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
  • Sep 16, 2008 (Worldwide) iOS
  • Sep 19, 2008 (Europe) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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Rating distribution

5 stars
306
4 stars
938
3 stars
1191
2 stars
373
1 star
52
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couch

Status couch Feb 13, 2019

This is a good game to get some back story on the events between Revenge of the Sith and a New Hope. It's also fun to play the bad guy. The story is good, but it's too short. 10 levels just isn't enough for the mainline story, ALTHOUGH I was happy to be done. It's a bit repetitive and too …

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This is a good game to get some back story on the events between Revenge of the Sith and a New Hope. It's also fun to play the bad guy. The story is good, but it's too short. 10 levels just isn't enough for the mainline story, ALTHOUGH I was happy to be done. It's a bit repetitive and too much is thrown at you too quickly. I found myself only using about 6 or 7 abilities, because they were effective enough.

I get it, this is old. It's not a current, top-tier game. But I do feel like they were starting to figure it out at the time of this release, and with the sequel as well. I'm very HOPEFUL for the new Star Wars game coming out late this year. Please give us this game, with better combat, a more immersive story, and a longer game overall. (AND PLEASE EA, PLEASE, DON'T PUT IN MICROTRANSATIONS). Sorry, I know this isn't EA's game... but it's still Star Wars. And I want good Star Wars content LIKE THIS in the future.

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Chovus

Status Chovus Sep 26, 2018

Bought this game on sale on xbox marketplace after playing the demo. Beat on sith lord difficulty (Hard), though I probably should have played on a lower difficulty given how much frustration there was (though there were good times too). The controls/camera (not just for this game, but for 3rd person hack and slash in general) are a large part …

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Bought this game on sale on xbox marketplace after playing the demo. Beat on sith lord difficulty (Hard), though I probably should have played on a lower difficulty given how much frustration there was (though there were good times too). The controls/camera (not just for this game, but for 3rd person hack and slash in general) are a large part of the problem and I feel I would have done much better from a 1st person perspective with standard FPS controls. There were many times when I said to myself "Damn, I wish I had a blaster, or grenades".

I had to get help online for about half of the bosses, and then beat the others on the 1st or 2nd try (usually while barely alive myself). Most of the reason for that is some bosses were gimmicky and immune to certain powers. For regular enemies, I most often camped out behind cover and tried to snipe with thrown objects or hit and run with lightning. For bosses and that I could not cheaply kill with objects and lighting, I jump/dashed behind them and mashed X and Y for a random string of normal lightsaber attacks, lighting and lighting imbued lightsaber combos, which worked pretty well. I also used lighting shield fairly often just before a melee. I also beat all the combat training, which had more difficult combat than the real combat!

I focused my level ups on defense, health, mana, melee damage, lighting, force grip and lighting shield. For most of the game, I alternated my crystal between deflection and damage, though at the end I used life drain (though I have no idea how much that helped).

Not interested in sith master difficulty, and will most likely never play this again.

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