By Jeff on May 12th, 2008 at 5:38 PM | 51 Comments
UPDATE: For everyone finding this post via Google, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has been recently confirmed to be coming PC sometime this year.
Finally we have a confirmed reason for why The Force Unleashed will not be released for PC. The producer of Force Unleashed, Cameron Suey, in an interview with Videogamer.com, stated that it would be too hard to develop a game which could satisfy both killer gaming rigs and outdated ones.
“The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn’t be the same game,” Suey said.
One might ask why not give the PC version a more scaled down version of the game so that it would reach a wider install base, well Suey says that would not be taking advantage of what the $4,000 rigs can do, so “it’s going to be not as good or only for a select few people.”
However don’t get too down as Suey did have some good things to say about the PC in LucasArt’s future. “That said we’re definitely not out of the PC market. It’s just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles.”
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed includes an original score which was composed by Mark Griskey, who has previously composed the music for Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. The folks at Music 4 Games have an exclusive look at the recording and composing of the music for the game and you can check it out here.
By Jeff on April 12th, 2008 at 12:51 PM | 2 Comments
Last night The Force Unleashed was featured on Gametrailers TV where Geoff Keighley got an insider look at the game at the LucasArts studio in San Francisco. Check out the four-part video below or you can watch the video in HD on Gametrailers here.
If any of you gamers are also webmasters, there might be a site you’re interested in. Webmaster Talk is an up-and-coming webmaster forum that has recently merged with Earners Forum to bring a host of new features to the site. To kick it off they are holding a huge contest with over $25,000 in prizes and 5 winners. Prizes include an iPod Touch, a Macbook Air, digital camera, Nintendo DS Lite, cash, and more. If you’re interested then you must register to win.
By Jeff on April 6th, 2008 at 3:28 PM | 5 Comments
Make sure to tune in to SpikeTV tonight between the Star Wars movies (I’m guessing 8 PM EDT) for a big Star Wars gaming announcement. Tonight is the world television premier of Revenge of the Sith on SpikeTV and Attack of the Clones will rerun beforehand so make sure to tune in at 8 for a huge announcement. There is also supposed to be a big announcement on April 11 so make sure to keep your eyes open for that one too.
The gallery has been updated and been split into 2 sections: concept art and screenshots. The screenshot section is all new with screenshots from the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, and PS2 versions of the game. View the new pages here: Concept Art and Screenshots. Enjoy!
