DakrZero: The BBFC has revealed that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has been passed for release in the UK, and has been given a '12' rating for "moderate fantasy action violence."

They remark that later in the game players will encounter "Storm-troopers wielding flame-throwers." They say that even though players will not "get to use these flame-throwers themselves, they can be targeted and set on fire by them."
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LucasArts is planning an Xbox LIVE and PSN demo for upcoming Star Wars game The Force Unleashed.

Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, revealed the news in an interview with VideoGamer.com at a recent press event in London. The details and timing of the demo are, however, still under wraps.
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LucasArts is "not shutting the door on PC", despite the lack of a PC version of upcoming Star Wars game The Force Unleashed.

Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com last week, Cameron Suey, producer of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of The Force Unleashed, said that LucasArts wasn't doing a PC version of one of the most anticipated Star Wars games in years because of the vast differences in power of PCs in people's homes.

He said: "The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game.

"That said we're definitely not out of the PC market. It's just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles."
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LucasArts intends to make "less and better" Star Wars games in the future, the company has told VideoGamer.com.

Speaking at a Star Wars: The Force Unleashed event in London last week, Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game, admitted that some Star Wars games "probably weren't up to the quality bar that we would have liked" but that LucasArts was now focused on telling "singular, excellent Star Wars stories with engaging and innovative gameplay and cutting edge technology".
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the "greatest" Star Wars game ever made, according to the game's producer.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at an Activision/LucasArts event in London last week, Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, said that in his opinion The Force Unleashed, which sees you play Darth Vader's previously unknown secret apprentice in an adventure that takes place in between the two movie trilogies, has the greatest story of any Star Wars game.

"You know what, I'll say it, it's for me, and greatest applies to value judgement and opinion, it's definitely the greatest Star Wars game. I'm of course biased!" said Suey.
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DarkZero writes: "Lucasarts have announced that the all powerful Darth Vader will be playable in The Force Unleashed. However, he will just be available in the games first level, and from then on you will instead take the role of Vader's apprentice - which is the guy you have most likely seen in all recent screenshots and videos of the much vaunted title."
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Geoff Keighley promised some information on The Force Unleashed segments that will be airing on Spike and now He has it. Here's when you can tune into Spike over the next week to hear more about the game. He will be hosting a series of short interstitials with Haden Blackman from LucasArts to reveal more game details:

- April 6 at 7:58 p.m. ET/PT ¿ between the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

- April 11 at 10:52 p.m. ET/PT ¿ At the end of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

- April 12 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT ¿ throughout an episode of GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley filmed at LucasArts' headquarters in San Francisco

- April 12 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT ¿ before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

- April 13 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT ¿ before Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

If you miss these segments don't worry -- They will be putting them up on GameTrailers after they air.

Meantime, make sure you don't miss their April 11 episode (that's next Friday). It's our biggest GTTV yet. They will have SEVEN world exclusives in the show in high-definition! They will show you the Duel Mode in the Force Unleashed for the Wii, but they also have something special from their friends at Insomniac Games and Sony Computer Entertainment.

More news on Monday when details on the show hit this very site. Have a good weekend.

Geoff
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Gameplayer are reporting that 'the seventh film' in the Star Wars series, the video game The Force Unleashed has finally received a release date.
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It's finally dated, and SpikeTV has some exclusives airing in a few days. Get the full schedule.
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be coming to the US on September 16 and Europe on September 19, LucasArts has confirmed. The game will launch in Southeast Asia/Australian on the 17th."Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is one of the most ambitious projects LucasArts has ever launched," said Peter Hirschmann of LucasArts."The combination of a great new Star Wars story with revolutionary new technology and game play means more ... » Read More

1pstart.net was able to get GameStop's latest PS3 new game releases. They also were able to upload some scans of the sheets listed by title.
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GameTrailers has posted some info about an upcoming Star Wars announcement next week,

Geoff Keighley posted: "STAR WARS! Last week I went up to LucasArts for an exclusive behind the scenes look at the new game THE FORCE UNLEASHED. We'll be blowing it out on GTTV with a ton of exclusive footage and some very special announcements."
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VG247:

"Activision just got back to us on a rumoured slip for Star Wars: Force Unleashed, saying the date had been moved some time ago.

"It actually moved to September a few months back," a spokesperson told videogaming247."
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After the deluge of great games that were released in 2007, you might think that this year's crop of titles are destined to underwhelm when compared to the likes of Bioshock, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Super Mario Galaxy, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. However, a number of high profile games scheduled for release over the coming months should have gamers everywhere doing the pee-pee dance in anticipation, giving 2007 a run for it's money as the best year of video games ever.
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Looking4GameNews writes: "The latest issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine (April edition) has a cover feature for LucasArts' upcoming game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed".
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Kotaku Reports: Whilst my Kotaku brethren were toiling away at various long winded sessions, I had the honor of being shipped out to Lucas Arts Studios to check out some of Start Wars: The Force Unleashed. Once we arrived I was greeted by a Yoda fountain outside and an incredible waiting area with amazing old movie posters and some life size figures of Darth Vader and Boba Fett. We were then ushered into the theater where the the presentation began.
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Titan Books is publishing both a novel and a graphical novel based on LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.Both publications are due to hit before the game appears this summer. Both obviously follow the same storyline, which explores the period between Episodes III and IV where Darth Vader's the big bad daddy of the galaxy far, far away. "This action-adventure finds the Jedi order crushed under the hand of Emperor Palpatine and a new order ... » Read More

Via Ripten:

"NaturalMotion, the animation developers behind the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV and Star Wars: Force Unleashed titles, will be giving a demonstrate the latest morpheme (advanced animation engine and powerful graphical authoring tool-chain) features at this years GDC."
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Sometimes playing the game is just not enough, so for those of you who like to be hands on, you will be delighted to know that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is coming to life, in the form of Lego.
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CVG writes:

"4 CommentsThe first level of the upcoming PS3/Xbox 360 game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be a Jedi-hunting trip to Wookiee planet Kashyyyk, where you get to assume the role of Darth Vader. It's like a childhood fantasy come true!"
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