Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Game Is Unleashing Something in my Pants
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Okay. I know Star Wars video games are, on average, wretched abominations against everything good and holy. I also know that The Force Unleashed‘s premise, where you play a “secret apprentice” of Darth Vader, is nine kinds of lame. But I can’t help but watch the development diary for the game, which is chock full of gameplay videos, and not be kind of excited about the chance to kill Stormtroopers via electrocution, crates to the face, tossing them into flying TIE fighters, throwing lightsabers at them (my favorite!) and more. Although I can’t help but wonder why the character has a beef with Stormtroopers in the first place.
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