Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Star Wars The Force Unleashed It took LucasArts longer than it expected to put the finishing touches on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, but when it was finally released last year it went on to put up huge numbers for the company - record setting numbers in fact, and considering the success of previous Star Wars titles, that's no small feat. Given that it might be a while before we see a direct sequel, assuming one is even in development (and you have to assume that it is), we're now seeing the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition.
Essentially, this is the collector's edition that we didn't see last year, coupled with all of the available downloadable content and a brand-new exclusive level. For the retail price you'll get the original game, the Jedi Academy, Tatooine and Hoth levels, all of the downloadable skins, a collector's card and a nice tin case to hold it all in.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
In terms of the tangible stuff, the collector's tin is really just the metal case that a lot of other special editions ship in, which, while cool and nice, isn't anything new. The collector's card is just a thick piece of paper with some artwork on it and is hardly worth collecting. In fact, there's a paper pamphlet that shows what all of the cards look like, and that's probably enough for most everyone out there.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Now, if you're a PC gamer then you'll likely know that The Force Unleashed skipped over the PC last time around, with LucasArts going so far as to say that it would probably never come to the platform. Well, the Ultimate Sith Edition does away with this jibber-jabber and brings the secret apprentice and gang to Windows machines. By and large, it's a solid port, but it really isn't any different from the previous console releases in any way. That's not a bad thing, but if you were hoping for enhanced physics or something of the sort, that's not to be found here.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
The base Force Unleashed experience is the main star of the show, and nothing has changed. The code looks to be completely untouched, for better or for worse. If you haven't played the game or want to know our thoughts on the original experience, be sure you check out our original Star Wars: The Force Unleashed review. In short, it's still a fun, if somewhat flawed, experience that gives you a great set of Force powers to play with.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
In terms of the additional content, what you're getting here is an extension of the base game, something that simply adds more content to the experience but doesn't actually change (or even fix) anything. What's sort of nice is that each of the three additional levels are standalone options, so you don't need to play through the game in order to get to them. The downside to this is that none of your powers or anything carry over, nor does anything that you earn carry back into the main game. However, that largely doesn't matter as you start almost fully powered-up for each of these levels anyway.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
I won't spend too much time talking about the Jedi Academy level as it's been available as DLC for some time, but it's a pretty decent bonus level that has you wandering through the academy in order to get to a personal test of sorts. It doesn't seem to fit into any specific part of the secret apprentice's story and instead acts as a random side mission that he goes on for himself, which is nice as you don't need to know what's happened in the base game to appreciate it. There's a small bit of simple puzzle solving towards the end that helps break up the pace a little bit, and while it won't tax your noggin, it's a nice change from all of the killing.
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Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 / CPU: Dual-core CPU with 2.4 GHz (Intel core 2 Duo or Athlon X2) / RAM: 2 GiByte Graphics card: Shader model 3 with 256 MiByte VRAM (Radeon HD 2900 or Geforce 8800) / HDD: 24 GByte + 1 GByte swap file
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