Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Sweetz · Post by **Sweetz** » 29 Nov 2009, 07:44

Widescreen Grade: B
Ultra-Widescreen Grade: B
Multi-monitor Grade: B
4k Grade: Incomplete

Read Full Detailed Report - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

The Force Unleashed is a third-person action game in which the player's character's weapons are the Force and a lightsaber. Developers treated the main character's lightsaber like another Force power, and wanted to ensure "something visceral and cool" happened with each button-push. The game has a combo system for stringing lightsaber attacks and for combining lightsaber attacks with Force powers. Experience points earned by killing enemies and finding artifacts can be used to increase Starkiller's powers and traits.
The gameplay is intended to be easy to learn; the development team included "horrible" gamers to help ensure the game's accessibility. Players can casually run and gun through the game, but the game rewards those who take a stealthy, more tactical approach.
The game includes enemies that are easy to overcome; game difficulty arises from presenting these enemies in large numbers that can wear down the player's character. Additionally, enemies learn from the player's character's attacks; using the same attack on different characters can sometimes lead to the player's character doing less damage.

4:3

16:10

16:9

3x1

Post by **scavvenjahh** » 30 Nov 2009, 14:15

==Supported Resolutions==

2560x1600 works ok, however it is not natively supported so you will have to edit Config.xml. See Surround section below for details.

==Cutscenes==

You're right, the FMVs always play full screen so they're deformed in all ARs but 16:9.

==Surround Gaming Support==

Edit required.
In Notepad, open Config.xml which can be found in
(XP) C:Documents and SettingsLocal SettingsApplication DataAspyrStar Wars The Force Unleashed
(Win7) C:UsersAppDataLocalAspyrStar Wars The Force Unleashed

Edit the VideoWidth and VideoHeight values, for instance :

Code: Select all

   &lt;s id=&quot;VideoWidth&quot;&gt;5040&lt;/s&gt;

      &lt;s id=&quot;VideoHeight&quot;&gt;1050&lt;/s&gt;

Gameplay : Hor+
HUD : scales correctly, centered !
FMVs : stretch
Real-time cutscenes : Vert-

5040x1050

StingingVelvet · Post by **StingingVelvet** » 30 Nov 2009, 16:08

I don't think that woman is in proper Imperial uniform.

yogibbear · Post by **yogibbear** » 30 Nov 2009, 16:51

How do her space boobies stay in their correct position?...

Impractical spacesuit!

Oh wait... women wear impractical clothes all the time...

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 30 Nov 2009, 18:42

Seems very strange that the HUD/minimap would be squashed in 16:10 but not stretched in TH.

Also, are there any 2D screens in the game, other than the main menu?

Grade: B

HUD squashing and FMV squashing are blemishes.

CCE: 100%

Sweetz · Post by **Sweetz** » 30 Nov 2009, 23:45

Also, are there any 2D screens in the game, other than the main menu?

Just a skill upgrade menu which looks and behaves the same as the options menu.

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 01 Dec 2009, 02:39

Would you mind providing screenshots of that? This sort of thing should be filed under "SP anomalies."

Post by **Downtown1** » 08 Dec 2009, 06:47

Wow that is awesome. Centered HUD and correct FOV on TH! Real shame about the cutscenes though, there's quite a few of those.. don't understand why developers don't put in code to letterbox the movies more often, nobody wants to watch stretched or zoomed in crap :(.

Played this game on my 360.. was a lot of fun.. wonder if PC version still has the same "feature" where your targeting is based off where the character is pointing instead of the camera? That was a huge annoyance.

Post by **skipclarke** » 08 Dec 2009, 15:20

Played on the 360 as well. Will have to pick up on PC with the TH/EF support.

Sweetz · Post by **Sweetz** » 08 Dec 2009, 19:57

Played this game on my 360.. was a lot of fun.. wonder if PC version still has the same "feature" where your targeting is based off where the character is pointing instead of the camera? That was a huge annoyance.

It's still like that. There weren't any improvements made to the game for the PC version of the Ultimate Sith Edition in general. It's a very bare bones port. The framerate is capped at 30fps, there are no adjustable graphics settings apart from resolution and a single "high detail" setting, there's no mouse support for menus, and the load times are terrible.

The decent TH support is rather surprising, but I'm guessing that's just a happy coincidence based on the game's existing FOV implementation. I strongly doubt they went out of their way to support TH based on how underwhelming the rest of the port was.

Still, it's not a bad game, and it's the only decent Star Wars game we've had in a long time (well apart from the Lego Star Wars games, which are brilliant, but sort of in a category of their own). It's just a shame that even forgetting the PC port for the moment, they didn't take the opportunity to address some of the general complaints with the game in the Ultimate Sith Edition.

Post by **Downtown1** » 27 Dec 2009, 22:23

Bloody shame, I could've picked it up on the Steam sale and replay it on some Hard difficulty on my PC, but not if its still got the shoddy camera system from earlier.

Bruce Banner · Post by **Bruce Banner** » 28 Dec 2009, 16:51

:) One thing that's always annoyed me about the lead character in this game is , why the hell does he hold his lightsaber in such a peculiar way ? You don't see Darth Vader , Luke Skywalker , Yoda , Obi Wan etc etc holding it behind their backs like this guys does . Does he have a wrist problem or something :P

StingingVelvet · Post by **StingingVelvet** » 28 Dec 2009, 19:36

:) One thing that's always annoyed me about the lead character in this game is , why the hell does he hold his lightsaber in such a peculiar way ? You don't see Darth Vader , Luke Skywalker , Yoda , Obi Wan etc etc holding it behind their backs like this guys does . Does he have a wrist problem or something :P

It's just to make him unique... the Star Wars movies are filled with style over realism so I don't see why it's an issue.

I got the PC version for Christmas. Is there some way to force AA? Doing it through nHancer results in horrible graphics corruption like Double Agent had years ago.

EDIT: Vanguard profile works in nHancer.

kanima · Post by **kanima** » 29 Dec 2009, 03:43

Can one of you guys email me the config.xml.. I have the steam version but ther eis no config.xml and therefore can't play it in 5040x1050. thanks.

StingingVelvet · Post by **StingingVelvet** » 29 Dec 2009, 13:03

Can one of you guys email me the config.xml.. I have the steam version but ther eis no config.xml and therefore can't play it in 5040x1050. thanks.

If someone emailed it you would still need to put it where the game has it stored. Follow Scav's directions perfectly and you should find it, Steam has never movied a documents config folder before that I know of.

kanima · Post by **kanima** » 29 Dec 2009, 13:46

I beg to differ I finally found the file , but it is under c:usersusernameappdatalocalaspyrstarwars the force unleashed

Post by **scavvenjahh** » 29 Dec 2009, 16:31

You're right, 'Documents and settings' in Vista became 'Users' in 7. Or sth like that. Hard to keep track of all the subtle differences from one OS to another.

LordJuanlo · Post by **LordJuanlo** » 22 Mar 2011, 11:49

Sorry for resurrecting and old thread, but I had this game lost and forgotten on my Steam account so I decided to give it a try. As you have said, it works quite well in triple screen (except the FMVs that are horrible), however there is one thing that I really hate: the 30 FPS cap.

But one user of rage3d forums has developed a program that will unlock it and make it run at 60 fps. You need to have the game updated to 1.2 version, and it won't work with Steam because the EXE is different, so you need a "special" EXE that you will need to find elsewhere.

Once you have this special EXE, just install this little program on game folder and use it to launch the game. If you try it at 60 fps you won't go back.

Link to FPS uncapper

21_9 PC Gamer · Post by **21_9 PC Gamer** » 16 Feb 2015, 00:17

21:9 is native @ 2560x1080 but pre-rendered bink videos produce a black screen with audio only. Someone needs to re-encode the bink videos for 21:9. I tried but could not get the game to produce the video perhaps it needs windowed borderless?

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