@LoopyChew:

Haha.

dead_red_eyes

Hell yes. I can't wait!! I was a HUGE fan of the Jedi Knight series.

dead_red_eyes

Why wasn't this video marked NSFW? Now I gotta clean up my pants and the bottom of my desk before my boss walks back in.

LoopyChew

Calm down people, dont derail this thread with clueless ones and their talk.

They will have a PC version more than likely.

EnigmaNemesis

Wow, this vid finally made me jump off from sitting on the on the fence when it came to this game.

A Must Buy now.

stoptheoncoming

drool

:( but i still want to buy the wii version for some reason. Hopefully the it'll be the same, just not the same graphics.

ph15h

I love how everyone decries the death of PC games because of pirates. Thats why Steam sells record numbers of games right? Thats why my local Best Buy is always selling out of and restocking their games section? Oh... and no pirates on consoles.... yeah those mod chips just give you extra FPS right? Get a clue... if the game is well made, people buy it, end of point. You guys must work for the industry, because it sounds alot like the whining the RIAA makes even though music sales are through the roof. Piracy has been and always will be. But more people buy the good games than pirate them. Your develpment effort is not wasted on the PC platform unless you make a game that is crap. Then people neither buy nor pirate.

eigokyoukan

Definitely super cool looking.

Of course, I've played several "Cool looking tech demos that never really found a game to go with them" (Black & White, Assassin's Creed, Jurassic Park Trespasser, etc.), so I'm holding off judgment until I actually play the thing...

KingSnorky

::boner::

teh_joe

Of course whats going to bother me about this game will be the unrealistic placement of destructible environments.

For every door I can smash in there will probably be 10 that I cant. For every tie fighter I can smash with a storm trooper there will pobably be a flimsier computer console that he will just bounce off of ...

brent_w

So so beautiful.

Witzbold

@brent_w: Great minds...

bluecell

Hmm, call me a sceptic, but it just looks like Jedi Knight, but done properly. You can pretty much muck about with the force in any of the Jedi Knight series, although yes, it didn't feel exactly right.

I'm looking forward to this no end though now after that vid.

monchberter

Damn this looks good. They seem to be coming along quite well with this title!

That Euphoria engine is funny though. I loved how the character force gripped a stormie and he grabbed a scout trooper, both of them dancing around in midair, LOL!

Tyber_Zann

@catapult37:

That wasn't anything like Euphoria.

The combine soldiers just turned into dead, limp ragdolls.

These storm troopers are reacting to being picked up, they try to grab onto things to save themselves. And they try to jump out of the way of things in the first place.

You really weren't paying attention if you didn't notice a huge improvement over HL2.

brent_w

@catapult37: No you didn't. At the end of HL2 whenever you grabbed someone, they immediately ragdolled and were dead. If you launched anything at anyone, you'd either miss or they'd die, no enemy reaction. Even worse was the Heroes of M&M system where anytime an enemy was knocked over, they'd ragdoll, dead or not. The effect was confusing. You'd hit them and they'd become dead weight, but then they'd get back up like they weren't just flailing their arms about as they fell in an odd, lifeless position. Euphoria adds life, self preservation as it says in the video.

bluecell

@Masterpain22: He's more than likely on god mode with full force powers and mana or whatever they use. It's mostly a tech demo with the crumpling steel doors, splintering trees, boxes flying and glass shattering and so on. A badass tech demo from the gods, but a tech demo nonetheless.

KirbyMorph

I'm not a big Star Wars fan, and I'm a little skeptical about how the gameplay will be, but this looks amazing. I've seen the R2-D2 wood-splitting and was impressed by that, and this is amazing. Every once and a while a great Star Wars game will come out, so I'm hoping this will be it. It has a ton of promise and potential. I'm actually surprised it will run on current gen consoles.

finalgearsolid

@baked ham: @EdwinJ85: the Euphoria, and MM, are working in-sync with Havok engine, which is pretty cool as it means, if Havok/MM start a deal going, any programmer of Havok has the capability to use this sort of tech!

and, seeing euphoria in GTA 4 is a good sign of things to come, imagine GTA with the MM intergrated, would mean crashing into walls/shutters/cars would create proper damage calculations

bodger1

the best part about this game is that somethign star wars finally has a character smart enough to throw a light saber around using the force. seeing that made me smile most of all

p3hrmne

Once again the technology at Gamevideo's and 1up astound me. Pushing the barriers of slow data transfer and taking it to the next level. I'm sick of having to torrent the 1up show etc.

As for the game, looks ace.

projectmayhem

@Doomstink: I dunno, man. They didn't write any of the physics code, they just implemented the three different systems into a unified structure. The game's been in development for years. I'm sure that they had a small team working on implementing the physics, but the game looks like it could be quite huge, to me. I can't imagine it took all their manpower all this time just to get three already written physics systems to work in tandem with each other.

baked ham

Oooo, revolutionary crate interaction. Really, you guys STILL get geeked up over this stuff. Hey, I won't count this one out till I play it though.

jasoncourt

I just realized why the Euphoria bits didn't impress: I already did all that in the last level of Half-Life 2.

catapult37

I'm using the force right now, to minimise my erection over this game.

dukesnipez

@TempvsMortis: I think we can all agree that the last thing Star Wars needs is more ideas from George Lucas. :-)

Video looks cool... I'm most impressed by the DMM metal /wood / material effects... they look really convincing. I'm concerned, like someone else said, that there's not much game here, just a physics playground.

Is Euphoria the same procedural animation package that we saw on Indy (or even that old football demo?). Cause if so, that things's a lot cooler than "guys can grab on to things". If done right, procedural animation can make things look a ton more natural and fluid, saying goodbye to canned, repeated animation.

Of course, I think I read somewhere that the real-life solution would one day be a combination of procedure and keyframe animation, so you can still do interesting things with manually-animated movements.

Finally: I love that lightsaber stance, with it behind his back. Badass.

catapult37

All "impressive, most impressive" physics and A.I. aside, "I have a baaad feeling about this." Why is it that I sense that the Lego games will end up being less 'silly' when it's all said and done?

It's not the tech or the setting, it's something elsewhere, elusive....*

*--Or maybe it's just the lame-o premise of the game and the fact that they continue to emphasize the cool environment and enemy reactions over the actual game. They should've either made a game from the perspective of one of the surviving Jedi (but not Ben or Yoda--there ARE others out there that got the revised distress code, we have to assume), or where you play as Vader himself. Alas, 'the kids' don't want to be a good guy, and Vader doing wall-runs and backflips and Tazmanian Devil-type spin moves WOULD look stupid as Hell.

jollydwarf

It looks amazing. Although with a character that is so powerful I wonder how they can make the game challenging enough that it remains fun and not just a 'hey look at everything I can destroy' kind of thing. I'm sure they have thought about it, I just wonder how will it work.

Masterpain22

@CANDLEJACK

Don't be so cynical. While yes it is likely to get delayed, they have shown a good deal of in-game footage so I'm going to say its a fair ways along. Also

Its coming out on Wii too, which never gets mentioned, this, this is going to be your wii-saber game it will be a PS2 port with tacked on wii-controls. :-(

ConfuciusMax

@Doomstink: It takes place between the first 3 and last 3 episodes of Star Wars. So while this guy is supposed to be some super powerful secret apprentice, he'll probably die or disappear at the end of the game/series to make way for Star Wars IV in which he is not.

So I agree, it'll probably be short. But it'll be a franchise. I'm looking forward to Force Unleashed TWO.

@bob-e: "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an upcoming multimedia project [consisting] of a video game, a tie-in novel by Sean Williams, action figures, a comic book, a reference book and a role-playing game supplement. The materials are scheduled for release in August 26, 2008. The game will be released on ... PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, second generation N-Gage and the ... PlayStation 2."

Second gen N-Gage, but no PC....odd.

bluecell

Euphoria is in GTA 4 too isn't it?

I think we are looking at the new middleware ap of the year - just like havok and speedtree were a couple years ago.

Is HL3 going to pick this up?

EdwinJ85

That looks amazing...!

Oh yeah, Haden Blackman is a total asshat.

livid

Very impressive gameplay video, but why does the main character have to look like Justin Timberlake?

mydogisdexter

@LunchViking: (last sentence) it WON'T be truly up to par... eh.

LunchViking

@bob-e:

Didn't you get the memo? The mumorpegers and the pirates killed the pc for gaming and it is no longer profitable for a development team to put time or money into the thing unless its something like an mmorpg where they can control software keys and piracy with an iron fist.

spinal77

PLEASE let their be forced based mini-games!!!

I can see storm trooper bowling right now...

exkon

I'm not a fan of the movies, and I hate previous Star Wars games, but this one looks awesome.

dgonchild

I used to read all the new star wars books back in middle school and high school. i'm 27.5 now. you do the math. i live in japan and paperback books cost like 1200yen here so i asked for books for christmas. my mom, not wanting me to grow up, apparently, sent me a star wars book ("Legacy of the Force: FURY") for christmas (along with "Wild Fire," Nelson DeMille; "The Alexandria Link," Steve Berry; "Allah's Scorpion," David Hagberg). I'm halfway through FURY and have read the others except for "Allah's Scorpion". Yeah... I noticed the middle-east theme as well. I guess that's the direction our new fiction writers are taking. No more Europe. No more Russia. Oh well. It was bound to happen.

Anyhow, the new Star Wars game looks great. I've owned all the Jedi Knight games and, while they were all decent, I never TRULY felt like I was able to do what I felt like I should have been able to do based on what I'd seen and read in the books and movies. This game looks close. I hope it doesn't disappoint cuz I'm definitely buying it. 'Course, til I can cut holes through anything, in a realisitic manner, with a lightsaber it would be truly up to par.

LunchViking

@xplocvo: Me too. According to the "Alphabet of Manliness," it's okay to be aroused by violence though. So I think this is acceptable...

Cathaoir

@Candlejack:

I definitely hear ya. The only thing that's keeping me positive on this is that the game was uncovered back around E3 of '06 I believe, possibly before that, possibly after that, but I'm pretty sure around the same time frame, so I'm just thinking that they must have been working on this game prior to E3 '06 which will have given them 2+ years by the time the game actually comes out. And that's about the average time frame for a big, epic game, so I'm just hoping! =D

Zhabin

Looks like they got the "kill button" figured out. Do the enemies post any kind of interesting threat to the player which alters the way the player interacts with enemies???

nerdBOY01

I think I pooped myself a little....

saxifridge

The end of the video clearly says SUMMER 2008, so I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed.

Have I ever been more excited for a game than I am for this one? No, I don't think so - as a Star Wars fan since I was in the womb*, I can't think of anything better to be in a video game than a bad-ass dark Jedi.

*My mom saw the original Star Wars when she was pregnant with me in 1977. A fan was born. Or rather, not quite born yet.

ach77

I am at full arousal right now...

xplocvo

Yummy!

EnigmaNemesis

I hope they take their time with this. Looks like this could be something special. Very cool tech and... yeah... STAR WARS.

elliottsa

@bob-e: Thank all the a**hole pirates. Maybe they'll release a PC port later ala Gears, Lost Planet, GTA, etc.

greeble

Say hello to my little friend frame rate problems.

danecy

When will they start whoring out those other systems? Or are Euphoria and that MM one not propitiatory?

SinisterSkull

@Zhabin: I want to believe. Truly. I love a good SW game (which this could be). But with a game that praises technology for over a year, maybe even two by now, I expect a damn lot of pushbacks. It's the same old story; the title is announced for an early release only to build hype, then to get delayed to a more realistic one.

Candlejack

Oh for crying out loud, I hate Gamevideos.

Winterbringer

This game looks amazing, I can't wait for it to hit. I've always loved seeing the force powers used in the movies (kinda wish it happened more often, but what can ya do), and now I'll get to use them as freely as I want against enemies that will supposedly react accordingly to everything I throw at them. Awesome stuff.

@Candlejack:

That video says Summer 2008. Even if it gets delayed I'm sure the absolute latest it will hit will be Fall/Winter of '08. And that's not too bad.

Zhabin

I went from going, "LAWL, he squirms when your force choke him," to drooling. This should not look this good.

hrunting

This is awesome, but is it true something like this has never been done before? (genuinely asking)

Playstation

Since the beginning I am looking forward to this!
No Video ever let me down till now. Fingers crossed!

tylerstyle

Wow I'm genuinely excited! It feels like for the first time in a game. I can actually wield a lightsaber and be in total control.

Orionsaint

Could someone please explain why this game is coming out on every single platform EXCEPT the PC?

bob-e

i suddenly have the urge to recreate "The Star Wars Kid" movie...

icepick314

@Doomstink: :(

why you gotta bring me down?

Manjikengo

Wow. I almost feel a little bit dirty for being as excited as I am about that tech demo. That looks like everything I've ever wanted to do in a Star Wars game but couldn't. I hope this doesn't disappoint.

Cathaoir

That looks so good. Too bad the game will probably wind up being a six hour (or less) romp. With this much focus on creating the physics system, I doubt they had time to put together more than six hours of gameplay.

Doomstink

@TempvsMortis:

ITS PART OF HIS ORIGINAL VISION

Manjikengo

That was impressive! Damn! :D

Krellie

I thought this game looked awesome in screen shots and conception art when I saw it in Game Informer about a year ago. Now that I see it in motion, this game looks amazing! I hope this makes it out April 1. Definitely going to buy it. This looks more promising to me than any other game I've seen except Metal Gear Solid 4, which I'm probably only more excited for because I'm an MGS fanboy. But seriously... this game looks beautiful and so so fun.

baked ham

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

wicko

"Sure it's a massive, irrational intrusion into Star Wars canon," but you see here, it's not. George Lucas himself was consulted on the story, and approved all of it. He even told them what kind of archetypal characters they needed. So really, it's the least intrusive so far, because it has full approval from the Big Man himself.

TempvsMortis

Ho lee crap! I am not the biggest Star Wars fan, but I'll have to pick this up

graze81

@Candlejack:

The date that gamestop has keeps getting pushed back ever so slightly.

right now it's at 4/01/2008

Manjikengo

Whoa....this games is shaping up to be a real tour de force.....lucas may have a few things to teach even the top most developers in gaming....

GameraTheGreat

drool

bluecell

this game better be as amazing as we all hope, god it looks incredible.

why do they all hold each other's hands though?

Grumps

Looking forward to 2010! Because there's so little known about this title other than the "wow"-technology that I doubt it'll come out this year or even the next.

I'm sick of their tech demos as well. They were cool back in 06-07, now I just want the flippin' game or them to shut up about it.

Candlejack

What is this feeling I'm experiencing?? Is it a long-dormant, renewing sense of excitement for... Star Wars?

Wow, neat!

7ucky

THE SITH SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!!

SithNinja

It's a fantastic video. I watched it a little bit ago and the tech is really fantastic the way they have it working together.

NotAZombie

So....this is just Psi Ops with Storm Troopers and prettier graphics?

PooPooKaKaBumBum

@TempvsMortis: Lucas likes money. He doesn't see games as being "true art", and he probably doesn't consider it cannon. He also lent advice to the developers behind Episode III the game. :(

This is irrational.

NotSoCool

@thefuryone: Thats a misconception. The original clone troopers were clones of Jango Fett, after the Clone Wars their were no more grown and bred. The clone troopers did make up originally a part of the Imperial Stormtroopers, but eventually they became made up of totally normal soldiers who volunteered for the Imperial forces. Just like soldiers would join the army today.

Seruza

I'm a big fan of Jedi Knight II for the pc, the grip force power reminds me of choking people off a bridge during capture the flag lol.

This game looks awesome. Hopefully it will be quality.

logical

the only problem i have is with all the stormtroopers holding hands.....that should be taken out, let them hold onto inanimate objects.....not hold hands.

kcm117

Heh, just what I always wanted to do in a Star Wars game. I like the main character. Not to mention the stance he uses with that lightsaber and some of his unlockable costumes are badass!

ZenGrenadier

@Seruza: Could we, then, figure out something a bit more interesting to use as fodder for these games than Stormtroopers? They're the dumbest army in all of Sci Fi (though cloned from one of the greatest bounty hunters who ever lived - WTF?) and they never pose a threat to anyone, ever. I mean, the goddamned DROIDS outsmarted them.

thefuryone

@maniacmayhem:
1. Those are Stormtroopers, not Clone troopers.
2. Vader is breaking the Rule of Two by initiating him as a full apprentice instead of a disciple. He needs to keep it secret from Palpitine. Although Palps did it too. He was training Maul when he was still apprenticed to Darth Plagueis.

Wookiee1

Okay, this is clearly astounding. However, I hope they work on on one thig before releasing this: the sound effects. In that demo, no matter how dynamic the Glass-Breaking was, it still used the same cheesy sound each time. I hope they bring the audio up to part with the rest of it.

phnord

Wow, this game is looking good.

DigitalHero

I'm not a Star Wars fan, my nephew is, but this looks like fun as hell and I just might buy it.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@thefuryone: His actions are supposed to be secret to everyone except Vader. So he has to destroy all witnesses.

Seruza

That whole bit with them picking characters and objects up looks a lot like Elebits. Has everyone forgotten about Elebits?

WalletMan

@AlKusanagi: Eh. The powers do seem over the top. I'll get over it though, that kid obviously gets killed eventually. Either by Shaak Ti or Vader himself.

It would be great if he was discovered by Palpatine and he sent Mara Jade to kill him.

Seruza

Yeah, hi, I just was curious as to why Darth Vader's apprentice is KILLING FUCKING STORMTROOPERS??

thefuryone

@EnigmaNemesis: hate to sound cliche my friend, but the force is strong with this game. must buy without a doubt.

zanzibarlegend

I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, but when it comes to the dark side and unlimited power!! omfg yesh!

and I just loooveeeee tech shit :D

This video rules for all those reasons, game looks cool, it reminds me a lot of psi-ops.

Which I loved :D

('I'm like a fucking carebear so much love I gots!)

Kamizzle

@Seruza: It looks like it will be canon as it is basically the second coming of Shadows of the Empire. Game, novel, comics, possibly toys, all with the complete approval of Lucas. Hell, it even gives him ANOTHER excuse to throw more shit into the OT by sticking this character in Jabba's palace with a computer or something.

And, yes, watching this video made my lightsaber ignite, if you know what I mean...

AlKusanagi

@Seruza:
Couldn't be as bad as Jedi Academy 3, where all you have to do is go straight to leveling up Force Lightning and the game becomes a cake-walk.

While I was watching the tech demo, I kept thinking "KAMEHAMEHADOUKEN!" heh. I really hope they do away with that charge up pose. Make something a bit more original. Or just go total badass and make it a one handed sweeping motion.

PissedPS3Fan

If he's working for Darth Vader why is he fighting Clone troopers? Forgive me if I'm not aware of Star Wars history....

maniacmayhem

If this whole game is just dismissed as being not canon than we'll be alright.

/starwarsnerd
Their is no way that dark side use of this caliber would escape the knowledge of Palpatine. His powers are ridiculously over the top lol. I mean destroying that whole tie fighter by just throwing his saber at it? c'mon lol. The whole game will be a tech demo.

Whatever. Where is my Kotor MMO?
/starwarsnerd

Seruza

storm troopers like to hold hands

holysocks

This game is looking pretty good. I'm deffinately looking to buy this for a "big-boy" system, rather than the Wii, since we found out that the controls will just be a waggle-fest...

PissedPS3Fan

This game is Havoking my Euphoria. Please take all the time you need to make it perfect.
I really like the DMM aspect, though i wonder if they'll place as much emphasis on sound quality as they have with the physics. DMM + excellent sound effects would feel super immersive.

brennan

drool drip SPLAT!

Snappywave

@catapult37: Oh yea. I'm glad I'm not the only person that noticed that. The backhand stance had "arrogant dismissal" written all over it.

I am really loving this tech. Havok is good for throwing large, rigid bodies around, but it looks horrible with ragdolls or anything else that should bend. The part with the bending doors made me drool.

Ferrik

@TempvsMortis: Yes, approval from the man who gave us midichlorians. That makes it all ok.

VorpalMonkey

Dammit! goes to change pants

Felucia, Bespin. I hope we visit Dathomir!
And the Apprentice is using the same style as Adi Gallia.

Wookiee1

I would like to see all three of these technologies applied to a superhero game. I just want to punch someone through a building.

mtheumer

What I want to know now is at what point in the game do I get to bring down a Star Destroyer?

mtheumer

This is pretty cool, but I wish we could see some other Force powers other than choke and push.

I mean hell, Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy had some sick moves in it.

And where is the lightsaber battling? And Wii remote controls???

WiNGSPANTT

Wooo finally another Jedi Knight game!

My many nights of dueling people and ctf online might come back! Force speeddd force pullll

Assuming it comes to the PC and has online multiplayer. if not the lucas arts can go suck my.....

actually i'm feeling bitter now I get the feeling this won't be multiplayer or coming to the PC, looking at the game it looks more like something purely for the console, just light sabre with force combat, no fps view guns etc....

hope I'm wrong....

charsuipau

OH YAH! Because I know they will never make a sequel to PSI-OPs (on of my favorite ps2 games), I am going to call this PSI-Ops2 and be very happy.

trigger2

@ph15h: This is where the nasty side of Nintendo's "graphics don't matter" strategy becomes evident. CPU power is used for far more than just graphics -- systems like the three highlighted in this video are very processor-intensive. Nintendo wouldn't ever say it, but they sacrificed more than just graphical fidelity when they chose not to upgrade the Wii significantly over the Gamecube.

catapult37

Wow. I hope more games moving forward have this kind of tech. It really is the most exciting thing for me about gaming at the moment, creating these believably interactive worlds. Havok + Euphoria + MM = The Future.

Gray665

There is a preview up at TeamXbox btw!

[previews.teamxbox.com]

EnigmaNemesis

yeah I'll be waiting for a PC version

infi

I don't really think there is anything I can say other than WANT! I just hope the gameplay matches the world they've created.

ビッグ ボス

I don't wanna get my hopes up (SO many disappointments in the past), but it sure LOOKS like Lucasarts might actually develop a great star wars game for a change.
Still, I wish Bioware would get another crack at the franchise.

BruzeWayne

Drool works just fine. [gets new shirt]

mastersauce

.... i think i just had a forcegasm... i can't wait to toss around the mostly blind storm troopers!

edantez

@p3hrmne:

What about KOTOR? I remember throwing the lightsabers around using the force in that game.

Totorototoro

game looks great, but they need to change the main character design. The costume is great, but the face and the haircut...looks like he belongs more in a game like Bully(because he looks like he belongs in a high school with that super-modern, miltiary style haircut, and he looks 15 or 16). If I'm going to be doing badass force powers, I want to play as a badass character.

They should make him more sith like, worthy of Darth Vader himself and less juvinile-delinquent.

Fenderfuel08

@bob-e: Probably piracy since it's a game that really focuses on the single player experience. They may not want to use Steam perhaps. Also , the baseline system requirements due to heavy physics use may be a problem and porting the dumbed down PS2 branch may put people off when they see their PS360 counter parts. These are just possible reason but they never came out and said anything but I found it weird too.

okenny :)... Microsoft PR Whore

Yeah, screw the Wii version. If it can't do all that, I don't care about swingin' around a light-saber.

Detha

I wasn't able to watch this particular video, on account of gamevideos possessing the most awful, broken piece of trash flash player ever, but~!

This is a game focusing on a period I feel has been neglected in Star Wars canon: Vader when he was an unstoppable absolute megabastard. How can that not be great?

Rosetti

Tie fighters must be weak. I mean, throwing a person into them causes them to explode instantly.

Still, the tech looks awesome. Here's to hoping it gets put in non-Star Wars games soon.

Yuki

Part of me is scared... scared to trust again. Scared to love again.

Will you heal my heart, LucasArts? Will you?

SuperCracker

Hopefully with all this processing information the game has to do for all of this tech they can keep the framerate from becoming a slideshow. Apart from that minor concern this game looks fantastic.

Stormrider (XBL: Lilarcor)

Ah man, if this is anything like Psi Ops I will be picking this up at launch.

If they can somehow add multiplayer, it would create the most amazing scenarios and mind-blowing fun. The way things would turn out would be fantastic!

KenHikari255

@Jonn: Why? Several Prominent Jedi used red blades.

Wookiee1

:drool:

jutaro

@trigger2: I thought I was the only one who remembered that game *sigh*.

rdj

It seems like the euphoria engine is entirely based on the last act in Titanic:

Jack Dawson: Never let go.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.

Ah, true love.

Uglyshoe

those storm troopers have incredible hand strength. I can't believe no one lost an arm.

cudthecrud

@TempvsMortis: the man will approve of anything aslong as it's full of cliche.

xbulletholes

@tk.: So is using one lol. But they're licensed practitioners ;P

Seruza

@thefuryone: Secret apprentice. He pretty much has to kill everyone who sees him, I guess.

Though I don't know why he doesn't just get a blue/green saber and pretend to be an escaped Jedi.

Jonn

Being knighted with a lightsaber looks really goddamn dangerous.

tk.

@TempvsMortis: Yep. Cause we all know what a good handle Georgie has on what Star Wars should be.

Jonn

@mariospants: His actions are supposed to be kept secret from everyone, so witnesses have to be killed. Vader is not supposed to have an apprentice doing his dirty work for him.

Seruza

hmm, I'll have to watch this.

Sailorcancer

ok, I know it's just a demo but can someone please explain (without using some far-out fan-fiction-based mythology) why Darth Vader's "secret" apprentice is killing storm troopers and destroying TIE fighters? Canon schmanon, this video makes no story sense at all.

mariospants

If they release a good version for the PC I'll pick it up. If not Clear Sky will be the PC game I look forward to this Spring.

Cronus

I just cant imagine this being at all playable on the wii. Dont get me wrong I love my wii, have a ton of games for it ... but with waggle controls and the fact that in no way it can handle all the tech ... i have a bad feeling about this! i think i am going to have to go for the 360 version. Lucasarts please use the time, energy, tech and man power set aside for the wii port and make a star wars game made for the wii with the wii in mind. thanks.

icarusprime

@PooPooKaKaBumBum: To be fair, Psi Ops was a Jedi game without a lightsaber.

Uglyshoe

i just felt the force rise, in my pants

bigchiefsmokem

Oh whats that? I can hear the inner fan boy waking up. Im so hyped for this game...its unbelievable.

Xmaster

Looks like a neat game but they overhype this technology stuff in the video. A lot of the "real time reaction" type stuff can be done just as good or better with your standard cutscene animations or manual animations. Chucking crates at stormtroopers does not wow me, I've seen it done a million times in Star Wars games and even better in others.

noelix

all I have to say is "YOOUU!"

npa189

It's good to see QA Leads getting interviewed during game development. That's a rare sight.

OtisElevator

Havoc: originally created for Demonik as seen in the film Grandma's Boy.

This looks sick!

suburbancowboy

That video struck the perfect tone between technical jargon and "oh-my-shit" viscera.

I am officially excited!

topaz420

*explodes*

Nex Antonius

Very cool video. Hopefully this lives up to the promise.

skokefoe

The integration of the three techs are amazing.

However, the gameplay looks subpar with massive slow downs and doesn't it seem kind of bland?

fyren

Here's hoping for everything in this game to turn out well, as it looks like the closest thing we'll get to a sequel in the Jedi Knight series.

...Which makes me want a PC version (and not a shoddy port) that much more.

Draconis

let's wait for a more definitive trailer demo of the game. the hand holding thing is something new that has never been shown in any of their tech demos. so before we get all stormtrooperphobic, let play the "wait and see game"

zanzibarlegend

This thing looks to embody innovation. I just hope that it's fun and more than 6 hours long. As for optimization worries, you can let those rest -- these guys look way too overzealous to release a game with a shitty framerate.

DangerChimp

it looks dumb when they hold on to things and get spun around.

3inst3in

@Fenderfuel08:

Yeah, well, Sam Witwer (Crashdown from BSG) looks like that anyway.

Starsmore

wow wow wow.

.and wow.

i cannot wait for this to come. hopefully the story and characters will be as memorable and epic as that gameplay is.

kw4k

Seriously, they need to fix the hand-holding thing. If I saw that once or twice in a game, I'd think "cool". When I saw it 5 times in a brief video, I thought "broken".

coffinmouth

The only thing I'm not too keen on is the guys grabbing onto each other and the crates. Very unrealistic looking.

KnightRider

he holds his sword like a ninja! O_o cuz all jedi are ninja!

pyropetey

@Seruza:

Yeah, a bunch of dead stormtroopers and a tie-fighter hangar being torn to hell is very secretive.

And I'm sure theres no such thing as security cameras, or communication devices.

You know I bet not one of those storm troopers thought:
"hey , maybe I should call somebody and tell them theres a jedi dude here kicking our asses ... "

Your line of reasoning works for a stealth based game ... but not for this ...
No way.

brent_w

That looks REALLY cool. It's a shame every game LucasArts releases is buggy and unfinished. I'd love to play this game if they give the team the time to get it working right.

WarlordPayne

I am thoroughly impressed.

yashichi8bit

When they are done,, where ix my X-Wing Vrs Tie Fighter : Your only hope!

xpnet

A Star Wars game that's awesome?! And it doesn't feature lego men!

chenry

Yes, I am down with this. Also a summer game yes!

Jsp343

Looks cool. The Force has been greatly overlooked for the power it is until now.

And it's got "Crashdown" from BSG as The Apprentice.
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HAL9triple0

@tk.: Dangit. I was going to say something to that effect.

Kirbytheslayer: Supports a political party. Just not sure which one

Is it just me, or do these three techs seem like really good sci-fi drug names?

jmb8504

@mydogisdexter:

Well he has to look like Crashdown from BSG right?
Impressive video so far and I believe we'll see it in the summer.I think they are farther along than the video implies.

enewtabie

@p3hrmne:

So I guess you missed all of the Jedi Knight games, huh?

incompleteunit

I'm worried the game will focus too much on force powers. I'd like to use the lightsaber, too.

Nex Antonius

This is amazing. I can't wait to play it.

Hylian

@Manjikengo:
GameStop's "Release Dates" keep moving because they make them up as they go along to generate pre-orders.

SithNinja

Looks nice, I wouldn't be suprised if the gameplay turned out to be a massive letdown though.

Golem29

Nice to see Lucas Arts has some talented game developers and technical direction.

I've been rather 'meh' about Star Wars stuff for years, but this actually got me excited.

Xira

Got to see some of this tech displayed at our 2006 GameStop manager conference, but not in-game like this. The molecular whatchacallit was supersweet at the time, but in game like this, just WOW! The only thing I don't get is if you are this apprentice to Vader hunting down stray Jedi from between episodes 3 and 4, why isn't the main character just Vader himself? Isn't that was he was supposed to have done between 3 and 4? Maybe he's hunting bigger jedi or something.
Either way, still looks sweet.

fearing

Impressive tech, but I hope there's actually a game in here too.

atomicstrawberry

But wait... there's gotta be some sort of Jar-Jar that's going to screw the whole thing up.

Just put the expectations down everyone; PUT THEM DOWN!

OK... I'm still a little excited.

Cojo21

The tech looks great and I'm really more excited about that than the game. I've never really enjoyed Star Wars for some reason but man, the video was awesome. Hopefully they'll add other elements to the game and it won't be a one sided death match against AI.

slikz21

Man, Half Life 2 is looking awesome....oh wait.

I had a geek moment when the Rancor walked out of the bushes. Other than that, this is looking like "1001 ways to kill a stormtrooper". I hope I'm wrong though and it kicks ass.

J-Fro

Its nice to see the same innovation that set the movies apart from other films finally applied to it's games.

x999x

you guys remember the first trailer where you bring down a frikkin star destroyer? that better make it into the game.

djcoffee

I'm just curious as to why Darth Vaders apprentice is destroying Storm Troopers and other Empire-ly objects!

Knolin

Wow that simply looks amazing. Indeed, this will be a must buy. Imagine what next gen will bring when they have even MORE power to dispose of!

ARboom

All of the environments seem to be rather craped, i hope it doesnt have small environments with long loading times in between to counter the tech... I mean the physics look freaking amazing, i just hope they can build a good game around it...

chickenplucka

take a look at this: www.coolvideos.com/details?2331523

martinpisto

Man, I really hope this game won't suck. Please don't suck, game!

L_K_M

OMG... I just drooled over, I think I even peed myself! This game looks awesome! It's about time they concentrate more on the dark jedi side of Star Wars for a game! I'm tired of those Star Wars game where you use blasters and control battle ships.

Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars but largely because of the Jedi themes/aspects of the franchise. I was never really a big fan of spaceships and blasters... I'm more on jedi powers and light sabers.

This reminds me of Jedi Outcast but looks a hundred times more awesome because they put the emphasis/technology on the Jedi powers. I'm looking forward to this. ;p

rhugghed

why always holding hands though? why not grab onto the other a ledge/railing, the other guy's helmet, or other guy's knee or elbow or something? they look like they're dancing in air or something. why not just make them grab onto whatever thing they can first get their hands on?

konchy

I love how people are complaining about this intruding on the original story line. People...it's just a fucking video game, and star wars is only a movie. get a life, alright? And the people feeling uncomfortable with the stormtroopers holding hands? Are you THAT homophobic to get all hot under the collar of some computer AI NPC characters holding on to each other for dear life? Christ...

With that said, I'm really looking forward to this. It looks like a lot of fun, and I love the fact that they're taking some broad ideas to making something unique. I however am hoping it'll be longer then a six hour game, but I'd be fine with 10 hours or so, I usually start getting irritated when the game is taking forever to complete. Just don't make it short like Republic Commando and I'll be fine.

Datalock

If only these guys had directed episodes 1-3.

Asper

Three things. One- That lightsaber stance is awesome. I love how he swings the blade out from behind him to deflect oncoming lasers.

Two- All that physical grabbing the enemies do is over the top in this vid. Hopefully it'll be more rare than that in the final product. It's very cool looking but looks goofy when the enemies grab onto other enemies' hands and such. It'd be great in cases where a guy is shoved over a cliff and grabs onto the ledge, but seeing it in a lot of fights is going to look unrealistic.

Three- What happened to that awesome wood breaking in the first tech demo? I want to see more of that, it was insane when they started throwing R2's through the wooden wall and it was warping and splintering as it weakened.

I'm dying to see the rest of this game.

unmarkedone

Everybody complaining about stormtroopers holding hands is failing to consider its potential:
Anybody for a game of Barrel of Stormtroopers?

muttonchop

Yeah, I'm surely going to be picking this game up on day 1 no questions asked.

In fact, I better go pre-order it at GameStop tomorrow.

Myst3r1o

This game will Run 10 FPS even after 6 patches of tweaking & optimizing :P

Ok I admit i was off, probably on 11 FPS after all those tweaks :P

Q80

Looks nice BUT if they are trying to make it that real then why...

- 0:37 uses the force, blows up a TIE and there is no debris?
- 3:31 people bounce against walls like they were rubber?
- sends a ST against a Tie fighter and the TIE explodes???
WTF?
-apart from grabbing objets the ST look like rag dolls moving limbs like they were swimming scoolgirls instead of soldiers
- 2:37 break a windows, vacuum sucks everything from the room but he doesn't even flinch?
-3:32 once you use the force on a box it no longer is affected by gravity?

Don´t get me wrong i love most of the things but.. please review the video and you will see most of the problems i mention.

They are halfway there but nothing to say wow yet except the DMM

HernanKowalsky

I am the biggest Star Wars fan and i love this

rakesh33

ops FPS

Capt_Birdseye

@Q80: how can you justifi on what the game will currently run at 11 FPS the game isn't even out and yet people state that thire know what FSP is before the certain perticly games come out.

Capt_Birdseye

This would be totally sweet. Unfortunately, it's a Star Wars game. You know, by Lucas Arts. This is a recipe for utter mediocrity. A tempest of shit. A churning, frothing hurricane of suck.

rick.

I wonder if you can cause an explosive decompression on spaceships or space stations by destroying the wrong wall or window.

javisk

This game is sure hyping itself up pretty good, so let's hope it delivers. I think the DMM is the best part. The breaking glass looks good, the permanently deforming metal looks fantastic, but they still haven't gotten the splintering wood down yet. If you look closely at the video, the trees don't look quite right when they are being force-pushed. The way they splinter and sway is not how you would expect something as heavy, solid, and thick as a tree trunk to move - especially as it's being cut by a lightsaber... unless in this particular iteration of the star wars universe the physics make lightsabers more like lightbludgeons.

bigbadbrucel

@Datalock:

well said! ^_^

icarusprime

I'll take two! :-)

And "massive, irrational intrusion into Star Wars canon" seems unfair when the story has yet to be told.

Arklop