Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition

[C4]

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 puts 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.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force and casts players as Darth Vader’s "Secret Apprentice," unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy seen through the eyes of a mysterious new character armed with unprecedented powers.

• Includes the original Star Wars The Force Unleashed game plus 3 re-imagined Classic Trilogy levels: Tatooine, Jedi Temple and ALL-NEW-Hoth level
• UNLEASH EPIC FORCE POWERS and devastating combos
• DISCOVER THE UNTOLD STORY of Darth Vader's secret apprentice set between Episodes III and IV
• LIFE-LIKE REACTIONS from characters and environments that are different every time you play

Its available on steam from today, $39.99. Anyone have any feedback on this game from the console versions as I am interested in purchasing it for PC.

[Drac]

About damn time they released this for the PC. From what I've heard the gameplay is a bit hit and miss, but the story is good. I might snag it and give it a go anyway, hacking through people with a lightsaber is usually fun no matter how you play it.

Edit: Maybe not, this Gamespot Force Unleashed Review doesn't paint the game in a very good light. I'll wait a week or two and see what responses there are on steam's own forums about this.

[theZee]

Oh mate! I remember being so miffed because it was not released on PC. This will make an excellent addition to my Christmas presents to myself

[Chief]

Wasn't the PC release originally canceled with the devs saying "It simply can't be done on PC"?

[theZee]

Originally Posted by Chief

Wasn't the PC release originally canceled with the devs saying "It simply can't be done on PC"?

Bah, can't be done for PC, unless I'm mistaken the coding would not be very different between the 3 platforms, PS3 and XBox are technically PC's after all. Sounds like a cop-out.

Also, if the review from Gamespot is anything to go by...they probably should have left it alone. I'm having second thoughts about buying it now, especially since I'm getting a PS3 for Christmas.

[Reoh]

Looking forward to hearing what you think of it mate.

Having just finished kotor recently I have a hunger for force wielding lightsaber using characters.

[theZee]

Originally Posted by Reoh

Looking forward to hearing what you think of it mate.

Having just finished kotor recently I have a hunger for force wielding lightsaber using characters.

It's the thing that made me really dissapointed when Force Unleashed was first announced. I love KOTOR and was super-excited about Force Unleashed....alas it was not to be.

Great choice Reoh, I've played through the KOTOR games 2 or 3 times now...somehow I always do it as dark side, even though the dialogue options are atrocious as a baddie - give me some subtle manipulation options damnit!

[Reoh]

I was so lightside my character sheet was blinding. Hahahah. I had 1 darkside point in the whole game, and I don't see why interogating one suspect was any more dark than doing it for the republic?

[Drac]

Originally Posted by theZee

Bah, can't be done for PC, unless I'm mistaken the coding would not be very different between the 3 platforms, PS3 and XBox are technically PC's after all.

Actually, that's quite far from the truth. The PS3 is more like the Xbox and vice versa than they are similar to a PC. Hell, Mac's and PC's are more alike than any of those systems side by side.

The Xbox 360 uses a custom triple core PowerPC processor (kinda like the old Mac's used to have) which is made/designed by IBM.

The PS3 uses the Cell processor which has a central PowerPC based PPE "Power Processing Element" with 6 accessable SPEs "Synergistic Processing Elements". They're like mini cores that can be used for all sorts of different things but they don't run at the same speed nor have the same power as the main PPE. Actually, the Cell chip has 8 SPE's but on the PS3 the 7th SPE is reserved for OS level tasks and security stuff and the 8th is a backup incase one core fails during production. The Cell CPU is also made/designed by IBM.

So, the PS3 and 360 both use PowerPC based processors, their structure is radically different, but those CPUs have the same roots. Devs typically complain that the PS3 is harder to develop for because accessing and using the 6 SPEs is really difficult and unintuitive compared to most current (former?) development practices.

The PS2 and Wii versions weren't done by Lucasarts Game Studios at all, they were done by Krome Studios in Australia using Krome's own game engine, so totally different code there.

The code for the PS3 and 360 that Lucasarts wrote probably had a heap of PowerPC specific stuff that wouldn't directly compile to run on x86 processors. When it comes to programming, I wouldn't say anything is "not possible", more like "about as likely as hell freezing over cause we're too frick'n lazy to recode it all for you pirating aholes"

[Reoh]

Spot the gaming Professor.