Well this weekend marked Xbox Live’s release of Lucasarts new Star Wars : The Force Unleashed demo for those of you who subscribe. First let me tell you that I downloaded this free demo Sunday, waiting 2 days of thinking that it may spoil my anticipation of the full game arriving september 15th. The 900 something byte DL didn’t take too long, I casually got in a few of the Fable 2 Table Games while i waited (also a great demo).I wanna say that the game mechanics are pretty damn phenomenal. The graphics are greatly on par with a Star Wars game for 360. I was a little hesitant at first, since these titles have been in the past “known” to not do so well after the Star Wars brand wears off. Let me tell you what DMM and Euphoria have done to this game is truly amazing. The force powers actually over ride the fact that you are wielding a lightsaber (which was always the big draw for me – yes I’m a geek).
The environment’s reaction, windows blowing out of the star port, sucking objects out in a swoosh with a blast door shutting behind was quite entertaining. Force lifting and smashing that little R2 unit into the door that was previously closed made me chuckle. For it being a demo I probably played through the thing about 6 times before stopping. You really feel powerful in this game, tossing troopers to and fro watching as they grasp on to objects within their reach (even if it’s another trooper) made me feel that this AI was really reacting to what was going on. Some enemies even fled as I approached menacingly towards them with my sith weapon.
The cut scene at the end of the demo left my mouth watering for more. Not the victim of a terrible movie spoiler, but really excited about the full release of this game.
It will probably replace my Jedi Academy game for old Xbox that proudly holds a spot in my permanent “I’ll never trade this in” section of my game library. So go check it out, it’s free, and will give you a great close to your day after your hectic monday, you can’t force choke “your real boss” you know.
It’s gonna be a swell experience.
MTFBWY
Crutchboy – Out
