Boba Fett in Force Unleashed II

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 23 July, 2010

Nooooooooooo!!!

Intergalactic planetary… Bounty hunter Boba Fett is in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Boom.

The news emerged last night from Comic-Con, San Diego.

Yesterday publisher Activision held a preview event for the game in London, and the lovely Keza MacDonald was there for Eurogamer. Here's what she told us in an email last night:

"Boba Fett is totally in the game, but you don't get to play him or anything. Darth Vader hires him to hunt down Juno, the love interest from the first game, in order to lure Starkiller's clone into his grasp.

"Fett's in the game as a response to fans' requests for more iconic Star Wars characters to liven up Force Unleashed's created universe."

Eurogamer went hands-on with The Force Unleashed II, due out due out for DS, PS3, PC, Wii and Xbox 360 in late October, at E3.

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Comments (34) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • SAMagic #1 2 years ago

    Of course he is. He's no good to me dead.

  • Psiloc #2 2 years ago

    Never understood the Boba Fett love. He's completely ineffective throughout the two films he's in then he gets eaten by a giant vagina.

  • Golgo #3 2 years ago

    @Psiloc: excellent point. And the stormtrooper clones they made out of his dad are all a bit bent at fighting, as was his dad - who got his head chopped off. Cool spaceship though!

  • Markitron #4 2 years ago

    Deadlage. Its hard to explain why fans loved Fett, Lucas had no Idea when he killed him off so brought him into the prequels as an apology of sorts.

  • M_of_the_sys #5 2 years ago

    @Psiloc & Markitron

    The Star Wars universe is bigger than just the films. Boba Fett has his own background story. I don't know much about it but I do know that he escaped the giant vagina, and got eaten by it again... and escaped it again.
    Edited by 1 at 23/07/10 @ 09:21

  • Embra #6 2 years ago

    "Ooops, our game is broken. Quick! Add Boba Fett, coz he makes everything better!"

    "Yay! Job done! Caviar and champagne for all!"

  • FireMonkey #7 2 years ago

    @Psiloc - "Never understood the Boba Fett love"

    He has a jetpack! Enough said.

  • Markitron #8 2 years ago

    @ M_of_the_sys

    Obviously I was just referring to his theatrical showings. As a huge SW fan I have read most of the expanded universe stuff but I actually preferred him when he was just mysterious and cool looking

  • seabassuk #9 2 years ago

    "Never understood the Boba Fett love. He's completely ineffective throughout the two films he's in then he gets eaten by a giant vagina."

    Yes because capturing Han Solo and completing your mission is totally ineffective ¬_¬

    He looked badass and is one of the few (then) non-major characters to not be intimidated by Darth Vader.

    He was meant to have died by the sarlacc pit but his popularity meant that was retconned and in Tales of the bounty Hunter series (good read by the way) we see him escape via his lucky jetpack :D

  • Keza #10 2 years ago

    @EarlBasset: Usually I talk like I ought to be wearing a top hat, but the American game developers' casual turn of phrase proved infectious.

  • nad2dare #11 2 years ago

    Makes not sense why he's in the game, because if you've played the ultimate sith edition or dlc tattonie pack, he's an a end of level boss that you defeated & he blows up.

  • evilrobot #12 2 years ago

    "Makes not sense" you said it.

  • M_of_the_sys #13 2 years ago

    @nad2dare

    I believe the DLC is a 'what if' scenario rather than what actually happened.

  • M4RKYB #14 2 years ago

    I never understood how it takes the sarlacc 1000 years to digest someone and yet it burped within 5 seconds of swallowing the Fett man. God I was a cynical child.

  • Shinetop #15 2 years ago

    I never understood how it takes the sarlacc 1000 years to digest someone and yet it burped within 5 seconds of swallowing the Fett man. God I was a cynical child.

    That burp was for someone it ate 1000 years ago.

    Speaking of the Sarlacc, I actually liked how one was in the first game and they horribly abused it. It actually made me feel sorry for a giant ravenous vagina monster.
    Edited by 1 at 23/07/10 @ 10:16

  • sonicyoda #16 2 years ago

    Is the first one any good? I was a massive Star Wars fan back in the day but kinda avoided the first Unleashed game for some reason. I'm on a bit of an action adventure, hack-n-slash trip at the moment (I'm juggling God of War Collection, Conan and Viking: Battle for Asgard) and wondered whether the first Unleashed would be up my street.

  • StooMonster #17 2 years ago

    sonicyoda: yes, they could've called it God of Star Wars.

  • sonicyoda #18 2 years ago

    @StooMonster

    That's all I needed to know ;)

  • Psiloc #19 2 years ago

    @seabassuk

    He doesn't capture Han Solo. He doesn't even put him on his ship himself!

  • Psiloc #20 2 years ago

    @sonicyoda

    I'd only recommend the first FU now because it's likely to be so cheap. It wasn't a very well executed (read: tested) game.

  • lennon #21 2 years ago

    Just started playing the first one again after not really getting into it first time round and really enjoying it. Well worth a look for what would no doubt be around a tenner.

  • Gastrian #22 2 years ago

    I think Bobba Fett's popularity sky-rocketted the exact moment Darth Vader singled him out in the bounty hunter line-up and had to tell him to be LESS ruthless. I mean this is Darth Vader, the guy who would force choke for getting him a diet coke instead of regular telling someone else to tone it down a notch.

    But seriously, will the SW "fans" stop complaining if there aren't enough of the movie characters in it, there are some of us who enjoy playing in the Star Wars universe and don't need constant fanservice to get enjoyment. Perhaps thats the reason why I enjoy KOTOR so much, there's no movie characters in it.

  • Rack #23 2 years ago

    FU was perfectly playable but you absolutely must try Bayonetta first. Both are available pretty cheaply and Bayonetta was staggeringly brilliant. If you do play FU just be aware there's a quicktime sequence with a Star Destroyer that's a total pain in the ass.

  • Matfink #24 2 years ago

    Hell even JarJar would be a good inclusion. In conjunction with force choke.

  • wayne040576 #25 2 years ago

    I've read a few interviews with Lucas about the whole Fett escaping from the pit thing. As far as he was concerned the character is dead and didn't escape. It was just a few nerd authors who couldn't let go and wrote some books about his escape and adventures afterwards.

  • andyjohn3 #26 2 years ago

    I think that once you start reading the books you realise that BF was actually a bit of a cocksucker.

  • StooMonster #27 2 years ago

    Agree with Rack, Bayonetta is beautifully executed in every possible dimension.

    ST:FU was a bit ragged in places, but was still good hack-n-slash fun.

  • TeaFiend #28 2 years ago

    Wasn't Mr Fett busy hunting Kyle Katarn who was getting the Death Star plans around this time?

  • NimbusTLD #29 2 years ago

    I think that once you start reading the books you realise that BF was actually a bit of a cocksucker.

    And that's why people empathise with him ;)

  • telboy007 #30 2 years ago

    "Wasn't Mr Fett busy hunting Kyle Katarn who was getting the Death Star plans around this time?"

    Kyle Katarn! I loved those jedi knight games...

  • Murton #31 2 years ago

    Boba Fett is even a bit ineffective in the Expanded Universe stuff. He goes after Han twice in the Han Solo Trilogy and is defeated by Lando Calrisian on both occasions.

    As for Jedi May Cry 2, I'm hoping it'll be as good as the first one, though I'm expecting the storyline to utter bollocks and another complete mockery of the one Star Wars era that had a reasonably intact canon (The Galactic Civil War)

  • metalangel #32 2 years ago

    on Boba Fett: never understood the love at first either, though thinking about it, being a space bounty hunter is about as cool as it gets. Cool armour and a jetpack are a nice bonus.

    On FU: Couldn't get on with it, which is a shame as original trilogy > clone wars. Alas just did not get on with the demo, tried it several times just to be sure it wasn't my unfamiliarity with the controls. Though as some have said above perhaps time for a second look now it's cheap?

  • dnd #33 2 years ago

    i quite enjoyed FU (great acronym), wasn't brilliant but i had fun nonetheless been meaning to play it on my pc having picked it up in one of the steam sales, originally played it on ps3. bayonetta is awesome, imo anyone who doesn't have it needs to go out and buy it right now :).

  • spidermanalf #34 2 years ago

    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=CJvxEjGpIqU