Top 10 Things We Want from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
by Tom Burns

Top Ten Things We Want from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

1. Hand-to-Hand Outer Space Combat

OK, fine, it's pretty damn cool to be able to stand on a Coruscant street corner and bring down an Imperial shuttle-craft, but do you know what would be even cooler? Ejecting from your TIE fighter mid-battle and dogfighting with just your space-suit and lightsaber. Yes, it's crazy, but how cool was it when General Grievous busted out of The Invisible Hand in Revenge of the Sith and walked down the ship, virtually ignoring the vacuum of space? If we're really controlling an amoral Jedi superhero, we should (while wearing a space-suit, of course, we're not crazy) be able to Force-pull ourselves from ship to ship, slash through life-support systems with our lightsabers, and then float onto the surface of enemy space-stations, crawl our way up to a small thermal exhaust port, drop a grenade down, and then grab a ride on a passing ship while the station implodes behind us. If the relatively-inexperienced Luke can take down an AT-AT with only a lightsaber, we want the same experience, only set against the Death Star battle in Jedi.

2. Total Gungan genocide

We're not proud of this. We're not. But, if you totally and completely unlocked the world of Star Wars and gave us access to unlimited power with no penalties for bad behavior, much like some people spend all their time in World of Warcraft killing boars to boost their power, we might just spend an evil weekend genetic-cleansing on Naboo. Don't judge us.

3. A "Real" Duel of the Fates

We might get some flack for this one, but none of the big lightsaber battles in the prequel trilogy really gave us everything we wanted. They were pretty good and had some fantastic moments, but there was a level of out-of-control Jedi master insanity that was missing, particularly in Sith's final Anakin vs. Obi-Wan duel. If we were a power-mad Jedi fighting for our life, while we were fighting with our lightsabers, we'd also be throwing out Force lighting, mind-punching our opponent in the eye, trying to use mind-control, smacking our opponent with anything we could pick up... the whole Jedi bag of tricks, all at once. (And don't give us that "it's too hard when you're concentrating on the sword fight" crap.) We got some of that in Sith, but there was too much jumping over lava and "defeating the supposedly most powerful Jedi ever by standing four feet higher than him on a slight incline" for our tastes. The plot of Force Unleashed allegedly involves Vader hunting down the last of the Jedi, and you know that he's going to throw down with his secret apprentice at least once, so there's a lot of potential to have this one actually appear in the game.

4. Jedi Training That Goes Beyond a Long Weekend on Dagobah

Be honest. Luke Skywalker's Jedi training was pretty weak. Obi-Wan gave him some tips on the ride to Alderaan, Yoda gave him a weekend crash-course, he killed his father, and suddenly, he's a Jedi. Meanwhile, back in the prequel days, it took YEARS. You started as a youngling, there was the whole padawan internship thing, there was probably a student-teaching requirement... it was much, much rougher. While the training levels on video games are notoriously disposable, secretly, we'd love it if there was an option in Force Unleashed to allow your dark apprentice to train as a Jedi in real-time. OK, it would need to be speeded up a bit (we don't have decades), but how cool would it be if you could develop your Jedi Tamagotchi-style? Taking care to feed it, train it, cloth it, make it build a lightsaber, tell it stories of the Old Republic... that sort of thing. Granted, that would just have to be one of many modes in the game - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas proved that making the food/exercise component mandatory was a pain if you just wanted to whack a rival gang - but it could be a lot of fun and much more fulfilling that running around a swamp with a Muppet in your backpack.

5. Jabba Slave Girl Hot Coffee

Speaking of GTA: San Andreas, if the Force really is unleashed... "These are not the droids you're looking for... you want to come back to my spaceship for box wine and a foot rub"... nope, nope, forget we mentioned it. We're ashamed we brought it up, and it's probably not worth the lawsuits. Probably.

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