Star Wars: The Forced Unleashed

So today I played the downloadable demo of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and all I have to say is WOW. Lucas Arts has worked very hard on bring us one of the most impressive games of the end of 08/ start of 09 and in my own opinion a contender for Game of the Year.

Even though the demo is very short (maybe about 25-30% of one of the first few maps) it allows you to gain a basic idea of how the controls work. From combo moves with your lightsaber, force grip, force push, and force lighting the player has anyone and basically anything to destroy at their fingertips. Lucas Arts developed two or three new graphic engines to go along with the Havoc engine for this game in order to allow the player to do so much.

For this mission you are told to find one of the remaining Jedi and kill them being their lightsbaer back to Darth Vader and leaving no witness behind (that means killing the imperils to). As you make your way through you gain a working knowledge of how to use your powers and combine them with others. Little helpful hits pop up here and there to explain certain things. I really don't want to ruin the ending, but all I have to say is that once the animation finished all I wanted was to continue my mission and kill this Jedi.

Graphic wise this game looks amazing and can only wonder what all the other maps look like besides a star destroyer. Lucas Arts really has delivered with this game and maybe now I can but away my 64 and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.