Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Tech Demos

Published 15 February, 2007 Duration 3:08

The next-gen Star Wars game is on its way, and it's starting to look mighty impressive. Here we have a couple of tech demos that illustrate a few of the game's features.

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 5 years ago

    Wow! Breakable wood! And breakable in a reproducible way too!
    Is it also going to have real time weapon change?

  • sport #2 5 years ago

    agreed - its one thing throwing r0b0ts at wood but its a completely different ballgame when l4s3rs b34ms are involved

  • Azazel #3 5 years ago

    I am sceptical. I don't know what about specifically. But I'm VERY VERY SCEPTICAL.

  • brn #4 5 years ago

    ace!

  • FunkyRenegade #5 5 years ago

    I think most machines would struggle to show that sort of detail and keep sharp textures and high poly models. It does look impressive though. I like the firing R2 units at it haha :p

  • kangarootoo #6 5 years ago

    Was there a lot plywood in Star Wars? Surely carbonite is the MDF of the future (or the far away past, apparently).

  • Chtulie #7 5 years ago

    Now if this were tech for a carpentry based game for the Wii, it'd be the bee's knees.

  • YourMessageHere #8 5 years ago

    totally wasted on Star Wars. Die Lucas die!

  • asphaltcowboy #9 5 years ago

    There are two videos there for anyone that didn't notice btw...

    And forget lasers, you lot are obviously missing the most important potential use! Force powers! Pushing bad guys into stuff and throwing stuff at bad guys! Why are you getting so hung up on lasers fgs?

  • Moonprince #10 5 years ago

    Nice, thanks for the tip on the 2nd clip. Didn't realise first time of watching :)

  • jimlad #11 5 years ago

    interesting, however i see one problem here. Since when did they have wood in starwars. Physics programers just wasted their time with that one.

  • Lukus #12 5 years ago

    Yeah, I was just thinking that myself. I suppose the Ewoks use lots of wood. Though I'm fairly sure this game won't feature Ewoks. Which is a shame, as it would be great to kick the shit out of one.

  • Troutio #13 5 years ago

    That AI is seriously funky. Don't let the Lucas-hate blind you to this. I am officially impressed.

  • MasterControlProgram #14 5 years ago

    Meh, they clearly had to turn vsync OFF to achieve respectable framerates... the screen was tearing as a paper foil (i'm impressed! :p)

  • space_ace #15 5 years ago

    looks a bit wooden! :)

  • Strifer #16 5 years ago

    Maybe they won't fuck up this one.

  • waffle #17 5 years ago

    Either those storm troopers were exceptionally heavy or the beams were made of balsa wood. I'd like to see a demonstration comparison between different materials in the game, such as the plywood we've already seen, chipboard and a hard wood, like cherry, or oak. If all "wood" in the game has the same resistances and tolerances then there's little point putting this system in. You may as well save cpu cycles and use the traditional break-away modeling. (this applies to any materials, not just "wood" but metals, glass and plastics)

  • bumgut #18 5 years ago

    How exactly are those storm troopers holding on to the flat side of those beams?

    Not very convincing.

  • gingerlink #19 5 years ago

    im sure you could get sotrmtroopers to grab onto blocks of wood with a lot less effort than giving them a whole nervous system....

  • Moonprince #20 5 years ago

    If all the nervous system did was have them grab wood then perhaps you'd be right. But we're clearly told it does more, so you're wrong :)

  • Brogan #21 5 years ago

    nervous system in the stromtroopers? oh great! now my veggie gf won't let me mow the fuckers down.
    Edited by Brogan at 16/02/07 @ 12:21

  • Darkedge #22 5 years ago

    ignore the framerate - I've seen this video elsewhere and it was rock solid and smooth as silk.
    Sorry EG but your flash video player is a bit crap which doesn't help.

    and NONE of this shit will be on the PS2/PSP or DS (and prob not the wii) - all of this takes big processor power and Lucasarts have said this is only for next gen consoles.

  • glaeken #23 5 years ago

    The obsession with wood construction and demonstrating destroyable wood is bizarre considering this is a Star War game.

  • L42yB #24 5 years ago

    Sweet! :D

  • Freek #25 5 years ago

    I love how every developer is basically doing the same thing, yet in interviews claims they are the sole team doing "the real next gen".

  • waffle #26 5 years ago

    rdexter: it shows plywood breaking in a similar way repeatedly. Only plywood.

  • Christafo #27 5 years ago

    Christ, i'd have thought intelligent reviews went hand-in-hand with an intelligent reader base, but apparently not. Just because they're using wood as an example doesn't mean the entire game is going to be set in B&Q.

    Wood is a common material from the real world, and so is used as a comparison between reality and the game's physics - people already know how they expect the material to react, and so it's the tech-demo's job to get as close to that expectation as possible.

  • waffle #28 5 years ago

    however, for all their rabbiting on about how the plywood will break differently depending on where it is hit, it still has the same bloody breakpoints each time they knock it down! Okay, so it has a higher resolution break-mesh but it's still ends up with the same effect. May as well save on cpu cycles.

  • the_dudefather #29 5 years ago

    looks cool, i suppose the reason for using wood is that virtually every other common material wouldn't damage in a spectacular way, it would have been cool to see some metal denting though

    wonder how the player will interact with these environments? or will they be a camera that holds a jump that hops around like in most other games while the NPCs have all the fun

  • aldo_14 #30 5 years ago

    Christ, i'd have thought intelligent reviews went hand-in-hand with an intelligent reader base, but apparently not. Just because they're using wood as an example doesn't mean the entire game is going to be set in B&Q.

    shame, I'd love to force-electrocute B&Q staff.