Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Downloadable Content Soon To be Unleashed

An announcement on The Official Star Wars Site tells us that there will be a new single player level "The Jedi Temple" and some new playable characters (can you say Kit Fisto!) available for download sometime in the near future.

The new content will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game only.
For more info check out this link StarWars.com Downloadable Content Soon To be Unleashed

Monday, September 29, 2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars on DVD & Blu-ray


The Official Star Wars Site reports that Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be available on DVD & Blu-ray starting November 11th.

Warner Bros. will release "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" on DVD & Blu-ray this November 11th. Single disc and double disc editions will be available on DVD. More......

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Darth Vader started the rebellion!!

Begin Holonet Feed .......

Rumors are spreading across the galaxy of records that indicate the rebellion was actually the idea of the Dark Lord himself, Darth Vader.

Early rumors indicated that Vader started the rebellion in an attempt to disguise his own agenda to overthrow the Emperor.

However there are reports now surfacing that the Rebellion was actually the idea of the Emperor himself. The plan was to cause a meeting of the rebels so they could be captured.

So Vader on behalf of the Emperor set cogs turning that would eventually lead to a secret meeting of Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, Garm Bel Iblis and the start of the Rebellion.

Reports say they were captured by none other then Darth Vader himself, but freed buy a brave young Jedi who gave his life for them and for the rebellion.





Brilliant!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Force Unleashed Xbox 360 Lockup Fix

So you played a few levels of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on your Xbox 360 then got bored or for whatever reason you put another game in your Xbox 360 and now when you go to play TFU again, you get a Black screen and nothing else.

Way to go guys at LucasArts! I guess you just assumed that people would play your game from start to finish without ejecting the disc?

Anyway, the bug is bad, but there is a fix for now.

Start up your Xbox 360 while holding down the A button (clears cookies).
Next go to the System Tag on your Xbox 360 Dashboard.
Select Memory, then select Hard Drive and press "Y" to view the device options.
Trust me, this is ok to do, it's scary, but it works.
On your controller,
press and release "X",
press and release "X" again
press and release the Left Bumper (upper left)
press and release the Right Bumper (upper right)
press and release "X"
press and release "X" again.
A box will come up and prompt you do do "System Maintenance".
Press "A"
This will clear the cache on your Xbox 360 Hard Drive.

You can now play the game. It appears to be fine as long as you leave the CD in the drive.
I haven't tried playing something else that is saved on the disk to see if that messes it up too.

Hopefully LucasArts will release a fix for it soon. But I'm doubtful since they don't even seem to be acknowledging that there is a problem in the first place.

I'm seeing posts now that say to delete the demo before you install the full version of the game and you won't have the problem.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Unleashed!

Sweet! So I sat down last night and got my Force Unleashed!
To start off, I was glad to see they had fixed the little glitches that existed in the demo (sounds out of sync, skip during Vader talking to apprentice, etc).
And playing Darth Vader was AWESOME.
I did find it a little strange that they let you play the first level as the most powerful force wielder in the Galaxy, then they teach you how to use the controls. Good thing I had played the demo and new what did what. Although I truly believe that you could just walk Vader through the map mashing buttons blindly and survived just fine.

Anyway, when I got to the Tie Factory I was pleased to find out it was not exactly like the Demo. For once MTV was right (Article). The last time I agreed with MTV, I ended up on True Life!

Now unlike so many others, I'm not rusing through this game. I'm playing it slow and enjoying it.
I also bought the novelization of the game and I'm looking forward to reading it.

I just can't decide if I should read first and then play, or vice versa.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Got my Force to Unleash!

Stopped by Wally-World this morning and got my unreserved copy of Force Unleashed.
I love the way every Game-Stop and EB-Games was trying to get you to reserve a copy of the game. There were 50 copies at the one Walmart I went to.

Anyway, I haven't got to play it yet and the reviews seem mixed.
We will see........

Monday, September 8, 2008

San Francisco Best Buy to have Force Unleashed Release Party

Animation World Network (AWN) is reporting that "LucasArts, Sony Computer Ent. America and Best Buy will commemorate the release of the upcoming videogame STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED with an exclusive launch party, offering eager gamers a chance to celebrate the saga and get their hands on the first copies of the game."

Some stars and talent from the game will be in attendance.

Get more info: AWN Headline News

The Force Unleashed Is Only So-So, Reviews Say - Gameworld Network news story

A report on Gameworld Network (GWN) says "The reviews for the greatly anticipated title The Force Unleashed are coming in, and coming in around average. Xbox Magazine gave it a 7.5 out of 10, saying it lacked polish. And horror of horrors, Nintendo Power said playing with the Wii motion controls is not that fun."
Read more : The Force Unleashed Is Only So-So, Reviews Say - Gameworld Network news story

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Clone Wars comes to TV + New Clone Wars Game

The Cartoon Network has announced that the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" tv series will debut on your TV on Oct. 3 (Friday, 9 p.m est.) with an hour-long episode.
The following episodes will be a weekly (half hour) series.



Also check out the Cartoon Network site for a new Clone Wars Game "Fierce Twilight"