Office of the Don #21: Forced to Wait
Greetings, Galaxy Rangers!
Not a very big installment this week, as I am swamped with various bits of creative endeavors that need to be attended to. But… I don’t want to leave you all with emptiness and solitude. It’s so… empty and solitude-like. And there’s no pie there.
For those of you who are going to Dragon*Con this weekend – have fun! Come back in one piece, and get me Nathon Fillion’s autograph.
Okay, you don’t really have to.
So, where was I? Oh yes – this week’s column. Well, I haven’t had the chance to do much this week worth writing about, but I did manage to play one sweeeeet little demo on my PS3:
I’m talking about the demo for the upcoming Star Wars game The Force Unleashed.
Now, before you start groaning and rolling your eyes in that George Lucas raped my childhood kinda way, hear me out. Say what you will about special editions, prequels, and CG animated movies sans the 20th Century Fox logo. This demo alone made me forget about all that. I was too busy throwing stormtroopers around with the Force.
I’m not going to go into a full review, at least not until I get to play the full game. Instead, I’m going to offer up a short list of things that made me giggle with excitement while I played the demo.
Yeah, so I giggled. So what?
List of Things I Loved About The Force Unleashed Demo:
- Smooth and amazing graphics.
- Great orchestral score, some from the films, some brand new.
- Taking out stupid Imp droids! Gonk droid is enjoying his sandwich made of pure not-functioning.
- Breaking the windows of the Star Destroyer and letting the vacuum of space suck my enemies out for me. Bye, guys! Hope you don’t mind the opposite of breathing.
- I took out a dude by throwing a TIE Fighter at him with the Force! Booyah!
- The Force is crazy!
- No good guy heroics this time. I’m all SITH, baby!
- Infusing my lightsaber with Force lightning ensures my enemies suffer a death reaction to lightning and being sliced in half.
- All grabbing your trooper buddy does is give you company when I Force lift you and drop you into the no-bottoms below.
- I split that AT-ST up the middle like there was candy inside!
Based on all the fun I had with the demo, I can’t wait until release day to get the full game. It’s been awhile since I’ve been this excited about Star Wars, and I wanna jump in head first before that feeling wears off. Who knows when it will come back again? So, hurry up and get here, mid-September! I wanna start trashing bozos now!
*sigh*
Fine, I’ll step forward so that I may see…
The Don was once a Jedi Knight, the same as your father. Wait, who are you again?
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