The cool thing here is that though I had found a good number of the hidden Holocrons in the game (I'd wager a guess that I snatched about 80% of them), I wasn't even close to maxing out all of my character's skills. Each level has a number of hidden Jedi Holocrons to find as well, some of which will give you a nice package of experience points, while others cut to the chase and give you a full point to spend on one of your abilities. Each level will reward you with one each of three upgrade points to assign, one for Force powers, one for combos, and one for "overall" stuff, like health or defensive abilities. For every person you dispense of (read: slaughter), you'll earn a handful of experience points, and when you've earned enough, you'll gain a level. Much of what helps this progression is the leveling system in place in the game. Being able to Force Push one guy off a ledge, electrify the guy next to him, slice down a third trooper and then Force Repulse all of their bodies off your standing within a couple seconds is flat-out awesome. Stormtroopers that previously took a few swipes of a lightsaber to down now hit the floor in one swoop, and your Force powers will recharge quickly for repeated use. But by the time you reach the end of the game, he's incredibly powerful. When you first take control of Vader's secret apprentice, he's already pretty powerful with Force Push and Force Grip in his repertoire. ![]() You can Force Grip soldiers and toss them into oncoming TIE fighters, stab someone with a nicely tossed lightsaber that happens to be electrified for extra coolness, or use a good old bit of Force Repulse to shove a group of soldiers away from you and off the side of a suspended bridge (which will also result in the bridge buckling from the blast). When you go to push a stormtrooper away from you, he won't just fall over, he'll fly. This is a version of the Force that really hasn't been seen anywhere before, with over-the-top uses of things like Force Push. ![]() The Force Unleashed is built around giving players the ability to, as the name perfectly implies, unleash the Force. ![]() Kudos to the team for crafting a story that not only extends the fiction, but in a few small ways even expands upon the existing content. It's hard to talk about exactly why without spoiling anything, but I'll just say that the tale does a very good job of tying the two trilogies together and nicely sets up the current state of everything that you see in A New Hope. The game's story takes place between Episodes III and IV (or the new and old trilogy for you number-phobic readers out there), though much closer in the timeline to A New Hope than Revenge of the Sith. It does enough things right, especially with regards to giving players the ability to wield the Force like we've never seen before, to make it a play-worthy effort for Star Wars fans everywhere, but it does so with a number of missteps that won't easily be overlooked.
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