Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Wii and DS

Published 16 April, 2008 Duration 2:21

The various figures involved in the development of the Wii and DS versions of Lucas Art's dark side adventure talk up the advantages of haptic interaction.

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  • Razz #1 4 years ago

    Wow. Just wow! :)

  • BlueDot #2 4 years ago

    That Wii version looks like it is going to be good. Looking forward to sabre fight with my son. We can get rid of the plastic swords :-)

  • bigbadbeasty #3 4 years ago

    The Wii version will be great. I cannot wait!!

  • quantumsheep #4 4 years ago

    /crosses fingers this is as good in reality as it is in my mind...

  • Saladin #5 4 years ago

    Still no-one to explain how the Wii hardware is going to handle running all three of those physics engines at once, though.

  • Raya #6 4 years ago

    simple - ps3 will hurl 100's of bits around and Wii 10's of bits. A the end of the day it will be just as much fun as you'll be playing it and not looking at how many bits are bouncing around

  • dadrester #7 4 years ago

    wii won't be running euphoria or DMM i'll wager... just havok

  • lemonfist #8 4 years ago

    It'll be fucking sh... I mean 7/10.

  • TWIGishere #9 4 years ago

    Oh dammit.... And theres my reason to go and buy another Wii. I knew I shouldve held onto it!

  • WinterSnowblind #10 4 years ago

    @Saladin

    It was explained. The PS2/Wii/PSP and DS versions do not have the physics.

  • Spanky #11 4 years ago

    So which one out of the 4 skus won't be utter utter shit. I have absolutely no faith in this lot to come up with anything of merit, constant dev diarys with the same shite footage every bloody time, no indication as to the variety to be found or anything more than Jedi Outcast.

    Oh wow you can smash a window, just... wow...

    Oh look if i hit this button on the touchscreen he will do a prescripted move... jesus.

  • Cyclone #12 4 years ago

    The Wii version looks good. The fact that they're only showing the DS version from a distance (with the whole DS in frame) and not up close isn't a good sign. Naturally no-one expects the DS version to look anywhere close to the next gen versions, but when they only show you the zoomed out version of the action chances are that it's poor even for the hardware that it's on.

  • Ryze #13 4 years ago

    ...in terms of gfx then.

    Anyway...

    /waits for reviews...

  • peterfll #14 4 years ago

    Oh, I'm with Spanky on this one. It looks like a first gen PS2 game at best. So unless they've got the control mechanism spot-on immersive it's looks like rather a large mmmeeh from where I'm standing.

    \cleans the fan switches and goes home

  • Mashum #15 4 years ago

    Will the movement and orientation of the wiimote translate directly to that of the on screen lightsabre? (is that even possible given the limits of the 'motes sensors?)

    Or will there be a specific 'moves' that you have to carry out - that really might as well be mapped to buttons on a regular controller because at least when you press a button there is little room for misinterpretation.

  • Davemanz #16 4 years ago

    This is the same video we saw before but edited to only show the Wii and DS. I really want this game to be good, but the Wiimote can't respond to movement to make it really like wielding a lightsaber. I'm really skeptical that this'll turn out well on the Wii. I predict Twilight Princess-like "swordplay".