First Thirty: Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition (PC)

By Joe Haygood | November 8, 2009

Aspyr Entertainment was nice enough to send over a new copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition for review, and since I have been a bit busy, I thought I would weigh in with a First Thirty to let the people know what you are getting, and how the action feels, when compared to the console versions.

First off, the packaging includes a collectible card, and a guide that shows all the cards that are available in the collector’s editions.  There is new artwork on the box that shows the Secret Apprentice in his mechanized Sith outfit.  The game ships on two discs and when the installation is finished, you will be 14GB lighter on your hard drive.

After loading up the game, you start off the game by fighting through the wooded forests of Kashyyyk as Darth Vader.  It appears that Vader is on a mission to find something on this planet.  You work your way through the forests, killing both Stormtroopers and Wookies along the way.  The force powers seem to be far more powerful in this version than the console counterparts.  Vader comes into contact with a Jedi, and proceeds to enter combat.  At this point, we are using Vader, so we have serious force powers and lightsaber skills.  Combat is fairly fluid, but at times, the action seems a bit floaty.  Also, the fight seems to be fixed from one camera, which tends to put you in some awkward angles when fighting an enemy.  More than once, I lost sight of both Vader and the enemy.

After dispatching the Jedi, I found out that he had a son that was very powerful, to the point he was able to pull Vader’s lightsaber away.  Before the Imperial soldiers could kill the boy, Vader killed all of them, and apparently brought the boy to his ship to train him.

This was about the time I finished up my first thirty minutes of play on the main story.  So far, the controls are easy to grasp, and the upgrade system works similar to the console counterparts.  You cannot set any graphic settings, with the exception of the resolution, so you are going to get the graphics that they have set in the game.  So far, I am enjoying the game on the PC, but there is nothing really changed from the console version.  I have yet to get to the extra content, but I will go over that in detail when the review hits the site.