Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition
- Don’t just defeat your enemies, hurl them through walls, smash them into objects, shock them with lightning, and even transforms them into Force -charged bombs capable of massive destruction.
- Includes the original Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Video Game, 3 new levels including a one that is exclusive to the Ultimate Sith Edition, an Art Book, and Lithograph all packaged in a beautiful tin collector’s box.
- During their hunt on the planet Tatooine for the reclusive Obi-Wan Kenobi, players will also explore the depths of Jabba the Hutt’s palace and encounter notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett.
- The Secret Apprentice is sent to the planet Hoth on a crusade to crush the Rebellion once and for all; while on Hoth, players face Luke Skywalker himself while visiting iconic locations.
- Experience the full power of the dark side of the Force by creating devastating attack combos using the Secret Apprentice’s lightsaber and over-the-top Force powers-Force push, grip, repulse and lightning.
Product Description
The story and action of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed expands with the release of Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition, a special new version of the game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that pus them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself. The Ultimate Sith Edition includes all of the original missions found in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as content previously only available via download and an all-new exclusive bonus level. It combines the original Star Wars: The Force Unleashed videogame and three new levels to create the definitive ultimate-evil storyline of the events that occurred between the two classic Star Wars movie tr… More >>
just the limited edition version that didn’t come out along w the original release. DLC levels are really uninspired and cheap feeling. other than that it’s the same game as last time around with a really nice steel case. i’m a sucker for the steel case so i ‘upgraded’ haha but for 20 dollars the original may be the better value if you don’t care about the mediocre dlc or the fancy steel case
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve been picking up Star Wars titles since the Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith, Rebellion and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter days. This has to be the most poorly implemented title I’ve ever installed on a PC.
This game is so rife with glitches, hitches and bugs as to make it completely un-enjoyable. The controls at times are not just unintuitive, but counter intuitive. The controls are obviously intended for a console format. It feels as though, as the game was being designed, two weeks before release, someone said “Oh! We should make a PC version. Write some quick code and make it happen”.
The mouse sensitivity seems to be set on “random”. One time you’ll pick up an object a certain distance away from you, smoothly line it up and throw it at your enemy. The next time you might pick up the same type of item at the same distance and as you try to line up for the throw, the slightest movement of the mouse jerks the object to the far side of the screen.
Now all this happens, obviously, when the game decides it’s going to run. It’s a 50/50 proposition at best. And when you’ve had all you can stand and want to exit, you’d think that “Exit” and confirm “Yes” would get you back to your desktop. Not so. In the process of quitting the game, the developers thought you might like to see some tips on the way out. Enter, Right Click, Left Click, Esc. No getting past it. Wait it out.
Jedi Academy was a far superior title to this one and it played well with PCs. This game looks and feels as though it should have been a bridge between Dark Forces and Jedi Academy. Pretty graphics do NOT a good game make.
I watched the original Star Wars in the theater in 1977 and was absolutely captivated. Again with The Empire Strikes Back and finally with Return of the Jedi. Then, many moons later, there were PCs and many games were made to try and capture the magic of the movies and put the player in control of the action. Some were good, some were mediocre and some (to put it generously) were sub-par.
As much as I really wanted to like this game, it’s amateurish design and content are at times just plain insulting to those of us who hold the Star Wars franchise in high regard, but do not worship it. Like I said, good graphics won’t make a bad game good and neither will putting the words “Star Wars” on the cover.
Bear in mind that I’m commenting on the PC version. It may well be that the console experience is totally different. I truly hope so because since I don’t enjoy it at all, maybe there are those who will.
Rating: 1 / 5
Without a doubt the buggiest game I’ve played on the PS3. I’ve played through once in normal mode and, during the course of the game, my character got stuck at least a half dozen times all at different places, which is really frustrating when you’re about to beat a boss and then have to start all over again because you can’t even move. And be careful in the laser tunnel, if your character’s guide starts talking to you, it essentially freezes you in place, but the game doesn’t pause and you’ll get killed by the laser before you can move again, which means starting back from the beginning. Those are some of the most annoying glitches, but you’ll find many other bugs or poor design elements, like invisible troopers (not talking about the ones that are supposed to vanish temporarily) or getting hit at the beggining of a stage several times before the game will even let you move, getting shot thru closed doors (sometimes works in your favor). Seriously, they need to do MUCH better testing! And the 3 bonus maps are even buggier!
I love just about anything Star Wars, but I’ve gotta admit that I think I ultimately found the gameplay of The Force Unleashed more annoying than fun. The challenges are mostly tedious than stimulating; and the gameplay is pretty basic and unimaginitive (fight your way through a level and then beat its boss – nothing new here. I know this game was designed a few years ago, but seriously, the PS3 is capable of doing so much more. While the game brings some new things to the table, I expected something a little more ambitious. Though it integrates a variety of force powers really well, controllability quirks, a simple storyline that doesn’t even try to stay within the Star Wars canon, somewhat mundane gameplay, and loads of bugs make the game feel a little cheap, like the designers were partially banking on the Star Wars name to make a sell. If you take away the Star Wars theme, I think this game would get anywhere near the praise it sometimes does.
I didn’t expect to be able to play with so many different character skins. That was kind of neat. But at the very least they should have changed saber styles for different jedi/siths; Darth Maul has a completely different saber than Starkiller and Dookoo, Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan, etc, don’t use an underhanded style. It’s also kinda lame having a non-jedi/sith wield a saber instead of a blaster, especially a droid like C-3PO; but kuddos to the designers for offering some variety.
The Force Unleashed is the first game I needed help in beating in normal/Sith Warrior mode. Not that it’s all that tough, but when encountering several of the bosses (or more particularly non-boss stages where you have to do something like force-pull a star destroyer), after practically not getting anywhere after 10-20 tries, I wanted to at least confirm I was on the right path. The games directions can be sorely lacking. But I guess that’s supposed to be part of the challenge, even if it is more frustrating than stimulating.
I played thru Sith Warrior (normal) difficulty first and then skipped Sith Lord and went right to Sith Master (hardest) difficulty, which I finished except for the very last boss, whom I finally lost patience with (him or the controls) after about 2 hours (made the bull rancor seem easy), so I dropped the level back to apprentice, just to see how the game ended when choosing the light path. Having played thru several times and having completed 91% of the trophies, I think playing the game in one of the two hardest difficulties is probably the funnest, if you switch it back to warrior or apprentice each time you get to the somewhat annoying boss stages, but I always found boss based games to be fairly lazy in design, even in the 80s.
As a fan of the franchise I’m still looking forward to Unleashed 2; I only hope the game designers at least put a little thought into their save points with the sequel and allow you to skip more of the movies on repeat playback, or at least make the story more interesting if they’re going to make you sit thru it. Going up against a near impossible to beat, boss-like creature is one thing, having to start over and fight through from the beginning of an entire map everytime you get beat is infuriating after the 20th time, even more so when the only reason you got beat is because you couldn’t tell exactly which way your character was facing when you attacked or worse yet, you were facing your target, even had him highlighted with blue corners, but for some reason your attack chooses to target an inanimate object beside or just in front of the enemy instead leaving you vulnerable for a few seconds while you recover from your attack. Aaaarrrh!
Edit: After playing this game again on a 100 inch 1080p front projection setup, character control was a little better. The game was just as buggy of course, but I could better tell which way I was facing than when playing in the living room on a 52 inch 1080p LCD, even though I was sitting proportionally just as close to the screen.
Rating: 1 / 5
Lot more gameplay options and storylines to play. Coolest thing is you get to play Vader but for a brief mission. Same as the regular edition but more things to reveal. A must buy if you haven’t brought the game yet and if you already the old one, don’t buy the same game twice just because it’s a special edition. You be wasn’t money on only a few more things that the old one left out. I brought it because I waited til the price dropped and lucky for me they came out with the special edition.
Rating: 5 / 5
The game is sort of a slow loader, but very well done from the force capabilities to the story line and light saber fights are a lot of fun.
Rating: 5 / 5