The baseline requirements for The Force Unleashed are absolutely astronomical and making things worse, options to improve performance by turning down the visuals are virtually non-existent. My fault, unquestionably, but as I would soon discover this unfortunate oversight was merely a portent of things to come.Įmbarrassed and apologetic, I rebuilt my rig with a quad-core CPU and a pile of RAM, after which I was able to play the game - but just barely. If I had, I would have known that a dual-core processor is not just a polite suggestion but a carved-in-stone requirement and this, I did not have. Given that it's a port of a year-old game that had been released on every console under the sun including the Wii and PlayStation 2, it never occurred to me to check the system specs. Despite packing a reasonably powerful gaming PC that capably tackled everything I threw at it, I was shocked to discover when The Force Unleashed arrived that I couldn't actually run it. I'd heard some decent things about the console versions of the game and felt it would give me the opportunity to demonstrate my impartiality, and thus my credibility, as a reviewer. Nonetheless, when the opportunity to begin my HonestGamers career with the PC edition of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition presented itself, I leaped at it. I find no end of amusement in the fact that the best Star Wars game to come out since the 1994 classic TIE Fighter had to be set so far away from the Lucasian "canon" that it became virtually irrelevant and was a Star Wars game in name and marketing potential only (that'd be Knights of the Old Republic, kids). I love the original movie but have no use for the bloated monstrosity it's since become. More seriously, in one instance a platform I was required to move with my Force powers also went missing, leaving me unable to progress through the game until, after several futile, frustrating minutes and a quick Google to make sure I wasn't completely off-base about what I was supposed to be doing, I exited and restarted the game."įull disclosure: I am not a Star Wars fan. Doors, computer consoles and other objects will occasionally flicker or disappear outright, although they remain solid enough to impede the player's movement. Graphical glitches abound, ranging from the merely annoying to outright show-stoppers. "It's hard enough dealing with an action game that switches into "surprise bullet time" at the drop of a hat, yet the game's shockingly sluggish performance is far from its only problem. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition (PC) review
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