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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land If your Xbox 360 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is missing an action-pack adventure inside a ruined Jedi Temple, Microsoft can hook you up with one this week at half price.
LucasArts may be ready to drop some new downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as five new Xbox 360 achievements have expanded not only the possible gamerscore, but the game’s character roster as well. Warning, spoilers ahead.
Last year, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was released to reviews that ranged from glowing (Variety) to anything but (Wired). It was those negative reviews that made the game’s developer glum.
LucasArts Star Wars spin-off The Force Unleashed was a Star Destroyer sized hit for the publisher, selling 5.7 million copies since its September launch, making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game in history.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was honoured for best videogame writing at the annual 2009 Writers Guild Awards over the weekend.
While downloadable content for Star Wars: the Force Unleashed has mainly consisted of new costumes so far, LucasArts has announced the release of a new single-player level for the game – and more new costumes.
The new level takes place on the Planet Coruscant inside of a Jedi Temple, where the Secret Apprentice travels in search of information about his father. Searching through the rubble he is forced to face his own inner demons, which I’m guessing are much more unpleasant than his outer demons.
New character skins included in the pack range from a Lightsaber training droid to the bad mother himself, Mace L. Windu. Hit the link for some screens of the new level and costumes, and hit the jump for a complete list of who you can be now.
And here we were thinking people had lost interest in Star Wars games. And here you are, proving that even the most mistreated fans will flock back to George Lucas’ wrinkled, cash-soaked bosom (or at least have a quick test suckle). Lucasarts announced yesterday that over a million people have downloaded the Force Unleashed demo for the 360, a figure that apparently set a new speed record for the console (fastest to 1 million downloads, which it hit in eight days). Over 1.3 million people downloaded the demo on the PS3. That gives us a grand total of 2.3 million downloads. For a week and a half, that’s a lot. Course, it’ll all be for naught if you all thought the game was a bit shit and don’t buy it, but hey, we’re talking the past here, not the future.
The Secret Apprentice, Maris Brood and Rahm Kota will be hanging out at the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed party later this month when the game hits shelves.
The group of voice actors for the upcoming game will be joining some of the title’s development team at the Best Buy in San Francisco (1717 Harrison Street) on Monday, Sept. 15 to celebrate the game’s release.
The event will run from 7 p.m. to midnight and will also give gamers a change to play the game and have their photos taken with “some of their favourite Star Wars characters”. That better be a confirmation of Wookie.
Early reviews are in for Force Unleashed (the game), and at this (early!) stage things aren’t looking as good as Lucasarts would have hoped. If that scoring trend continues, the game will sell a few copies (if only for the branding), yeah, but it won’t set the world on fire like the company were probably banking on. Ah well. Least the book’s doing well! Force Unleashed the novel topped the New York Times best-sellers list for hardcover fiction over the weekend. So, are Star Wars novels taken more seriously by their creators than Star Wars games? Or are SW book lovers just suckers? Who knows! Could be all of the above.
Star Wars Book Tops NY Times Bestsellers List [GameDaily]
There’s nothing like a demo of a Star Wars game to take the edge off a chilly August. I imagine a heater or a hot water bottle might have the same effect, but why would you bother when there’s absolutely nothing Jedi-related about them? Yeah, I thought so.
If you can keep yourself warm for just a couple more days, you can enjoy the fiery gameplay of The Force Unleashed on Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. According to the Activision release, the demo will feature the TIE Fighter construction facility and a tutorial on how to Force Grip like a pro.
Text resembling a cut-and-pasted press release can be found after the jump.
