Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition

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Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition From LucasArts List Price: $29.99 Price: $15.95 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Ships from and sold by buynowlv 25 new or used available from $15.25 Average customer review:

Product Description

Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition combines the original Star Wars The Force Unleashed videogame with three entirely new single-player levels and a host of new costumes and character models. The three new levels introduce an exciting new “what if” scenario into the Star Wars Universe and send players on dangerous missions to iconic locales such as the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Jabba’s palace on Tatooine and into the thick of battle on the ice world of Hoth. New character models allow gamers to play as a legendary Star Wars character such as Luke Skywalker or Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1800 in Video Games
• Brand: LucasArts
• Model: 12241
• Released on: 2009-11-03
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Use the Force like never before with devastating attacks and combos on enemies
• Discover the untold story of Darth Vader?s secret apprentice and the major events in the Star Wars universe after the rise of the Empire
• Digital Molecular Matter technology lets you feel the true power of the Force; Objects in the environment break, bend, shatter, splinter and shift as they would in real life
• Enemies are influenced by euphoria, a behavioral technology that allows characters to react in different and unique ways every time you play the game, whether they are jumping to safety or on the receiving end of your Force power and lightsaber attacks

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Customer Reviews

It's OK First off this review is for the PC platform. This game has great graphics and a great story line. Your force powers are allot more powerful. Also it appears to run flawlessly, no patches etc. Great cut-scenes. But make no mistake it's a console game worked over so it runs on a PC. I got it hoping it would be like Jedi academy but it's not. Don't get me wrong for the most part it's a real fun game, but you might want to invest in console game controller for you computer so you can get past the star destroyer part. Or maybe a trackball. You'll see what I mean, it's a little tough with a mouse. I kinda of hate to give this game three stars but I have to. The main reason is the fact that when you come to a boss, the camera zooms out and stays there just like your watching it in a stadium. Also just when your about to kill the boss the screen will flash the letters that you have to press at just the right time in order to finish killing him. Kinda like entering a code. So instead of getting to watch yourself kill him, you have to stare at the bottom of the screen, and hope you press the right letters. If you don't it restarts the last part of the fight. I know every game has something about it somebody doesn't like. But this game has to many little things that add up to allot, and can make it kinda frustrating to play at times. Again, overall it's a fun game, especially the second time through because you get to keep your force powers you earned. If you liked Jedi academy or any of the other Star Wars Jedi games you might want to wait a little while till the price drops before buy this one. Not the best but pretty good I purchased this with higher expectations than the game could provide so I'll be fair. Review: -From installation, you can already change your costume to many cool past characters and even some cool recent costumes from the game you are already playing. Changing costumes changes your whole appearence. You can play as Luke Skywalker (more than one version) or famous other Jedi/Sith including Darth Maul and Darth Sion. Some costumes changes are for your character specifically so you keep your face and only change clothes. You will unlock more as you progress through the game. -Controls are a little annoying especially targeting early in the game while surrounded. When you don't have repulse or lightning shield it's really annoying but some fast jumping or force dashing can counter these enemies so it's not a big annoyance. I never had any problems with actual controling the character ie. BUGS. -Force powers and skills are upgradable. The only problem with their process is, once you click on one power or attribute, you permanantly upgrade it. There is no backing out. It has a reset button but it costs you points. -Lightsaber crystals can be changed once you unlock them throughout the game. I really need to find that BLACK CRYSTAL. Oh..The upgrade screen will let you know what each attribute or power is with handy descriptions but on the lightsaber screen, they give you ZERO reason to change your lighsaber color because they give you no explaination what each crystal will do. There are enhancing crystals that it DOES tell you what it does though but the regular primary crystals are, "Red crystal, Compressed red crystal, Unstable red crystal". I think it just changed the look of the blade. Important..If you are a single player gamer that doesn't shy away from using a cheat code from time to time, cheats disable gamesaves and will block some force powers from being unlocked. You may need that power for the next level and if you quit and restart, you go all the way back to square 1. The game will still autosave at points for you to restart if you simply die but you still do not have that force lightning you need to open a door to progress. All I can say is, if you use even the smallest cheat code, be ready to go through the whole game without quiting but if a much needed power is blocked, you cannot progress. If you can keep going, pause the game and start again tomorrow without closing it. -Enemies. Although I hate respawning of the same enemy over and over in ANY game, this one mixes it up with 2-3 different versions. Maybe a few warriors will attack and a tribal shaman will be in the fight and then a tribal chief will be there. This causes you to mix up your attack styles. Rancors are not as bad as you think. Find a high up place to force lightening it from above or hit and run from the ground. It's still cool to take them on. Especially in the finishing moves. Surprisingly, boss battles weren't all that challenging but required some quick thinking and changing of powers and fighting styles. Usually they are other familiar Jedi, bounty hunters, etc. -There are plenty of easter eggs in the game. Look them up online. JarJar in carbonite is my fav. Finally, the cost. Although it was a bit high priced for the overall quality of game, if you have the cash, it's a good game. If you don't have the cash, wait a little while and see if it will drop. Suffers from poor framerates It has been quite some time
since I have reviewed a game, but this game has 'forced' me to come out
of my hiatus ;)

First off I didn't see the system requirements,
so here are the more pertinent specs:

Minimal system requirements
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CPU: Dual-core CPU with 2.4 GHz (Intel core 2 Duo or Athlon X2)
*
Graphics card: Shader model 3 with 256 MiByte VRAM (Radeon HD 2900 or
Geforce 8800)
* HDD: 24 GByte + 1 GByte swap file

Recommended
system requirements
* CPU: Intel core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2
5200+
* Graphics card: Radeon HD 4870 or Geforce 9800 GT


I
was disappointed when they announced that they wouldn't be releasing
this game for the PC, but had the hope that it would eventually be
ported. Patience paid off (somewhat) and here we are, a year later and
we finally have a PC version. I hate to say it but I wish they would
have held off a bit longer so they could deliver a more polished
product.

My current system falls within the recommended system
requirements and I still suffer poor framerates during gameplay. The
game often slows to a crawl and there are moments where the action
becomes incomprehensible due to dropped frames. The recommended specs
are not nearly high enough. I believe the limiting factor is the
processor, where the demands come largely from the physics engine. I
wouldn't attempt to play this game on anything short of a 2.8 GHz quad
core processor. The recommended specifications imply that a dual core
would suffice.

There are no options in the graphics department,
other that choosing the resolution before launching the game. No ability
to lower detail, draw distance, shadows, effects in an effort to boost
performance on lower end machines. All or nothing.

Any in-game
menu (changing audio levels, assigning earned skill points, etc.)
require loading time, which frankly is a bit baffling in this day and
age. I guess I've grown accustomed to menus that are readily available.

I
don't have much to say as far as gameplay is concerned. I figure the
game has been out for over a year now, so most people will have an idea
of what the gameplay is like. I wanted to focus mostly on the technical
aspects, given that this is a PC release and the technical aspects must
be discussed given the poor performance.

If you already own the
console version and are considering a PC purchase you may want to know
what the differences are. Firstly, they haven't addressed any issues
that exist in the console version. The star destroyer level is still as
annoying as ever, the targeting is just as random as it was. So what's
new?
1) Keyboard and mouse controls, though I only recommend playing
with a 360 controller. Other gamepad controller support is spotty at
best.
2) Jedi Temple and Tatooine levels are included, though these
were available for the console. A new Hoth level.

Not really
worth a purchase if you've already played the title on a console, if
anything the experience is likely to be lagged down and worse as a
result.

Four stars for fun, because it's a blast when running
smoothly. Two stars overall due to technical issues. You'd be far better
off if you were to install three other games for the same amount of
real estate that this game takes up (a whopping 24-25 Gig). If you are
really determined to play this you may wish to wait for either an
official patch that addresses performance, better graphics card driver
releases that boost performance for this particular title, or until
after current high end PC components become commonplace.