Someone Unleashed the Force!
Let this wookiee sailing gracefully through the air?having been Force-blasted by Darth Vader’s secret apprentice Starkiller?serve as a reminder that The Force Unleashed videogame comes out today, on pretty much every platform except the Atari 5200. Now, based on most of the early reviews I’ve read, the game is good but not great, mainly because the gameplay is a bit repetitive. But since that gameplay is mainly about picking up people with the Force, impaling them with your lightsaber, and then tossing their bodies into TIE Fighters and shit, and I’m 100% down with doing that for the game’s entirety.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.