Star Wars: the Force Unleashed Demo Sets Xbox Download Record 175
The demo version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was released a few weeks ago for download through Xbox Live and the Playstation Network. Now, LucasArts has announced that the game shattered records for the number of downloads on Xbox Live, taking only eight days to reach 1 million. The full version is due out next Tuesday, and LucasArts will be holding a launch party in San Fransisco on Monday night to celebrate. The game is part of a multimedia project which includes a best-selling book, a comic, action figures, and other tie-ins. According to Eurogamer's interview with producer Cameron Suey, previous Star Wars games suffered from a "lack of ambition." Suey also shows off some of the gameplay in a video. A video walkthrough of the PS2 and PSP versions is available at Kotaku. The game will not be available for PC. Early reviews for the game are good, but not great, and developers recently mentioned that George Lucas himself provided input on the project.
PC version planned... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:You are part of the problem (Score:4, Informative)
Wow. Google is failing me at the moment, but rest assured it happened. It was what moved the KOTOR 2 release up. LucasArts completely closed shop, and laid off their employees. There was an internal development team doing pre-production on KOTOR 3, among other products that were laid off. The facility closed, and LucasArts reopened internally within ILM.
http://www.lockergnome.com/game/2004/11/02/lucasarts-layoffs/ [lockergnome.com]
Amazingly enough, Google isn't finding much on it now.
SF "Launch party" is at Best Buy (Score:3, Informative)
Where's the launch party? One of the big nightclubs, like Ruby Skye or the DNA Lounge? No. Lucasfilm's facility in the Presidio? No. The Metreon, where Sony still has the Playstation store? No.
It's at the Best Buy on Harrison at 101. That's not a launch party. It's not even a good retail outlet.
Re:I have started my boycott of lucas properties (Score:1, Informative)
"a $699 pc [tigerdirect.com] can play crysis warhead on high @30fps, so it ought to be able to smoke the pants off an xbox360 or ps3 running in low resolution."
No really it can't. I have a $3,000 PC and it can't run crysis on high at 30fps without stuttering a fair bit now and again.
PCs have too much legacy architecture for support of various devices and such in them that consoles don't need to have. Consoles are more streamlined in that they just have what's needed for gaming now and not a lot else whilst PCs have a lot of bottlenecks that exist to ensure a business app or some hardware from the 80s will keep working.
It doesn't matter that say the 360 has only a 3.2ghz tripple core processor (although that's still much better than 99% of consumer PCs out there right now), the point is it's more efficient for a select purpose.
You'll get a lot better graphics at much better performance off a dedicated games console for quite a long while after PCs outspec them.
This is why I gave up on PC gaming to an extent, you can pour $3,000 into the latest and greatest system, or you can pay 15% of that price and end up playing games that look and play better on a console without any of the complications of PC gaming or worry about DRM on discs screwing up your PC or making sure you have the latest or best drivers or overclocking and shortening the life of your system to try and squeeze just enough FPS to play a game in a way that it looks nice.