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E3 Previews - Force Unleashed and Fracture
LucasArts has been focusing of late on a tight integration between technology and story. Their two big E3 offerings are great examples of this philosophy, with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed probably the better known of the two. There was apparently just some footage shown at the event, which will be rebroadcast tonight during the show Entertainment Tonight. IGN has a slightly longer writeup on the game, looking into the idea of "kicking ass with the Force". The other title LucasArts was showing this week, Fracture , uses over-the-top terrain deformation technology to imply certain things about its future setting. From Joystiq's coverage: "We saw a bangalore grenade launcher, that sends a grenade rippling through the ground like you would see Bugs Bunny dig in Looney Toons. The ground above it would raise a little, and the explosive would eventually pop its head out of the ground to claim its victim. A vortex could be created which acted just as its namesake implies, and also seen was a gun that created a large boulder from surrounding terrain and hurled it like a bowling ball. We also saw an extreme use of terraforming with the the magma spike, which shot a column straight up into the sky. If you're standing on it, you get a new, higher platform. If you destroy it, the remnants serve as a hindrance to incoming traffic."
As long as I can force grip people then drop them over a ledge I'll be happy.
In Jedi Academy, or JK3 you get to dabble in both sides. If you choose dark powers, you have to adjust your strategy to reflect that, and the Jedi Masters warn you about your choice of force powers.
I don't want to ruin it, but if you so choose, at the end of the game you can fall to the dark side.
Just a thought... from the brief description of the weapons in Fracture does anyone else see similarity to Scorched Earth? Just wondering.
Please don't give Valve any ideas! I really would like to get Episode 2 before the end of the decade.