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Screen Test: Star Wars – The Force Unleashed

Posted by John Constantine



I’m not sure if you’ve realized this, but the entire crew here at 61 Frames Per Second are gigantic nerds. We’re geeks. Dweebs. Dorkwads, if you will. Yes, we’re the coolest nerds around, but that doesn’t change the facts. I might be worse than the rest of the team though. At risk of remaining a bachelor for the rest of my twenties, I’ll let you in on a little secret, dear reader. There are Star Wars dolls in my living room. That’s right. DOLLS. That might imply some kind of bias towards media related to Star Wars, but I’ll tell you right now, I can be objective about Star Wars. Indeed, I’m downright distrustful of anything bearing the name. Six years of god awful movies will do that to a person. That’s why I’m hesitant to say that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is looking downright fantastic. But just look at these screens. Somehow, LucasArts’ designers have taken the garish neon worlds of George Lucas’ prequels and made them beautiful, capturing a legitimate otherworldliness that’s appealing instead of repulsive. Who knows? Maybe Star Wars will be cool again.

Nah.









You can thank NeoGAFfer kallisto76 for the screens. Check out that thread here for more.

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Comments

LaneLander said:

Darth Vadar wearing Purple?  Somewhere deep down in the put of my soul that is just wrong.  People have been trying on many levels to make Star Wars hot again.  Alas I am not a single player kind of guy.  Give me real people paying in servers with 50 - 60 players.  You should look into the First Strike Mod for BF2142.  While it is still using an older engine it looks good and you can still kill.

June 11, 2008 10:08 AM

Sarge said:

Yeah, he's not purple, it's the reflection of wherever he's standing. If you notice with your obviously brilliant perception, the guy he's choking is the same shade of purple.

Now if you don't mind...shut up.

June 11, 2008 3:51 PM

Peter Smith said:

Play friendly, children.

June 11, 2008 6:26 PM

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