LucasArts has released the first cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars video game. Still no actual game play footage yet, but at least the trailer below would make a better movie than the prequels.
Darth Vader leaves his secret apprentice Starkiller to be executed by…stormtroopers. Having made the Force his b*tch long ago, Starkiller easily escapes. About 75% of the trailer is composed of him just killing people so it’s worth the watch. [CinemaBlend]
Only seventy-five percent? I need to see more people than that being sliced in half, but only if they have obscured Stormtrooper faces so I don’t have to think about their grieving Stormtrooper family living in their ratty Stormtrooper tenement, just trying to make enough Stormtrooper paychecks to pay for little Suzy Stormtrooper’s medicine for her space rickets. Stormtrooper.
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Yes please.
Sure the cut scene looks pretty, but the first “Force Unleashed” game sucked. It was overly repetitive and dull, and the light saber dueling mechanics weren’t nearly worked out as well as previous games in the Star Wars universe (like the Jedi Knight Games for the PC).
Hopefully the sequel will be better, though.
I didn’t think the first one was terrible, but it wasn’t nearly on par with Jedi Academy.
the first one was canonical they made a huge deal about it so is this one not? im confused by your “non canonical” statement
Yeah, I fixed it. Not sure why I thought it was non-canonical.
Vader displaying Bond villain stupidity there. The Stormtrooper union might want to motion that Vader actually disarm the protagonist next time before leaving him in a room with underskilled employees.
I loved the first one, but since when are these games canonical? The very thought offends my geeky delicate sensibilities.
I loved the gameplay of the first one, but the accompanying “Story” made me want to punch babies.
“Hurr I’m a trained cold blooded assassin. Hello lady I just met. I totally love you and stuff!”
“Kill him. No, I mean really kill him. Not like the thousands of troopers who have tried and failed before. Like shoot him in the face or something. Oh that’s right, he can block that shit. Ummm…I’m just going to walk away assuming you killed him. I’m not even going to lock the door because I have so much faith in you guys.”
YEah, it’s kind of dumb.
Besides, didn’t Vader already try to kill him in the first game? That was kind of the whole point of the plot of the first game.
Or is this a whole different “super secret apprentice” who Vader is now once again trying to kill?
Didn’t the crazy bible lady stab and then order her minions to sacrifice Starkiller to the monsters in The Mist?
jcar – there was 2 endings to the 1st game