Lucas unleashes Force Unleashed demo to XBLM

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Lucas unleashes Force Unleashed demo to XBLM

Posted Aug 21st 2008 10:15AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace

Today is the day our Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo hopes and dreams finally come true. Because today is the day the 904MB Force Unleashed demo releases to the Xbox Live Marketplace for all to enjoy, that is if you're packing enough HDD space and are connected to Live. If both conditions are true for you then you'll be unleashing the force in the TIE Fighter Construction Facility in no time. Give the demo a download and share with us what your gut gaming reaction is.

Tags: force-unleashed, lucas-arts, star-wars, star-wars-force-unleashed, the-force-unleashed, xblm

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

8-21-2008 @ 10:21AM

Scot Reutzel said...

I can't wait for the full version now. The demo is a 10/10 in my opinion.

8-22-2008 @ 12:54PM

ZEBRA NINER said...

OXM gives the game a 7.5

8-21-2008 @ 10:23AM

ice~ said...

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I played the demo and had to scream with joy...ITS AWESOMEEEE!!!!!! It may be a tad short, like 10 minutes but it OWNS!!!!

8-21-2008 @ 10:25AM

Trunas said...

Can't wait until I get home to download this. Memory space, check....I'm glad i just upgraded my 360 to the elite last week during that dell sell.....System manufacturerd 5/08/08. Can you say new chip, quieter, more memory, hdmi, and that sexy black, yeah! I also sold my launch system for $200.

8-21-2008 @ 11:32AM

Radie said...

Wonderful post. It really captures the key elements of the game.

Have another Ritalin and try to stay focused.

8-21-2008 @ 11:43AM

offday said...

How could you do that to your launch console? I have a launch console and I could never sell her. You're an animal.

8-21-2008 @ 2:09PM

D dogg said...

Honestly Trunas, who gives a f**k. I hope you slam your d**k in a door on the way home and spend the rest of the night NOT being able to play the demo.

There, happier?

8-21-2008 @ 10:26AM

Rell said...

I was excited for the game, and now I'm only more excited. The camera could be the only small thing to upset me, but everything else made up for that.

8-21-2008 @ 12:39PM

Navindu said...

Hey pls reply me
I have an original xbox 360 NTSC
so can NTSC copies work on my Xbox?

8-21-2008 @ 10:27AM

Cal said...

Hopefully the full game is a bit more exciting, the demo was too easy on default difficulty (didn't try the others) and besides playing with grip for a while I didn't have much fun...

8-21-2008 @ 10:42AM

Boff said...

Stuck in work for another 1hr 15mins!

I'm excited as fuck and that's just from reading the comments!!

8-21-2008 @ 10:57AM

ZenGaijin said...

Not a bad demo, it does exactly what a demo should. Let you get a taste but leave you wanting more.

8-21-2008 @ 11:01AM

emirabal said...

Same here, except im stuck at work for another 7 hours, DDAMNITTTTTT

8-21-2008 @ 11:01AM

myabsolution said...

Pretty Fun demo, the camera was kinda awkward at times while I was running the corridors of the star destroyer (amirite>)

Only complaint... wow SHORT DEMO!

You literally get to play a teeeny weeeny section of one level and you don't even get to do fancy Jedi vs Jedi lightsaber action :(

But anyhoo... Ill definately get this, im a SW nerd.

8-21-2008 @ 11:01AM

David(Postal) said...

I just bought the novel of this last night.. I can't wait to try this out!

8-21-2008 @ 12:31PM

mirage said...

Yeah, the camera seemed very wonky sometimes. It would be nice if it would follow whatever is auto targeted or at least have a setting so that those who want that option could choose it. Also, the auto target for grip was pretty bad. In the tutorial, I took out one stormtrooper but had to run over by the barrel to target it again because it kept picking the stormtroopers rather than the barrel. That could get very annoying really quick. Otherwise, it was very fun and had a great Star Wars feel to it. It isn't a must buy, but it is a "will buy if I can afford it after all of the other must buys I have". :)

8-21-2008 @ 11:05AM

min said...

Yeah, I played it. One of the best third person games for me. I think the physics are all they were cut out to be, can't wait for the full version. Only problem I had with it, is that they made it seem like everything in the game was able to be destroyed I figured I could bang up the walls and stuff. When I would try and do so there was no damage exept burning from the saber. All in all this game will be amazing.

8-21-2008 @ 11:09AM

myabsolution said...

I actually broke a window and then the outer space vacuum almost sucked me out, but this metal blast door closed and sealed off the hole.

Try breaking windows :)

8-21-2008 @ 11:20AM

ZEBRA NINER said...

Yeah, the window breaking thing was pretty sweet.

8-21-2008 @ 12:08PM

min said...

I know you could brake windows and stuff, but I meant the walls around it.

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