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[taellosse]

So, I went ahead and pre-ordered The Force Unleashed.  I almost never pre-order video games, but I decided I really wanted this one, after what I'd seen and read about it.  This evening, I decided to look at the official site, just for a lark, since I hadn't yet.

I was interested to note that the actors who are doing the voicework for several of the

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[taellosse]

That's what I'm hoping for as a base, at the least. I am hoping that LucasArts goes a step beyond that, and has a story with some true differentiation, though. KotOR was great at the time, by offering the illusion of choice, but the plot was still virtually identical regardless of one's choices. I'm still waiting to see a game with choices that make a real difference in the course of the game.

I don't really expect that out of this game, though. As is usual for Lucas, he's really focusing on special effects over everything else--the big things touted about this game are the new technologies on display. Which is all well and good, but as large swaths of the prequel movies demonstrated, amazing special effects with bad dialogue and skimpy plot does not a good movie make--the same is true of a video game, in my opinion. At least for one that's got a plot at all.

I'm hopeful that isn't all this is--an elaborate tech demo--since Lucas seemed to start to figure that out as the prequels went along--RotS was almost as good as RotJ, which was the second-best of the original movies, and might have been better if Christiansen (and Portman) were a more experienced actor.