USA Today is reporting that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
will feature everyone’s favorite (but strangely ineffective) bounty
hunter. Yes that’s right folks, Boba Fett will show up in the game in “a
minor role”.
The
story will pick up with Vader’s secret apprentice (now officially stuck
with the goofy “Starkiller” moniker) escaping from his master, who then
employs Boba Fett to track him down. “We
didn’t want to just throw Boba Fett or other characters in the game
just for the sake of making a fan appearance,” says LucasArts’ Haden
Blackman, who wrote the story for both games. “But it really made sense
for (Vader) to hire Boba Fett.”
Uh… huh.
Remember when Phantom Menace
disappointed everyone and Lucas said hey wait everyone, Boba Fett’s
going to be in the sequel! And the fanboys got all excited until they
saw what they did with him? Let’s hope that this isn’t history repeating
itself all over again…
Anyway,
there are some other improvements to the game. Apparently Starkiller
will be able to dismember foes (finally- they’re friggin’ lightsabers,
after all!), and the force powers will be tweaked to be easier to use
and more powerful than ever. There will be new features like a mind
trick force power that makes enemies fight alongside you and the ability
to dual wield lightsabers.
If Force Unleashed II improves on the original it could really be a great game, because the first one was certainly fun if flawed (review). We’ll find out when it hits on October 26th.
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This just makes me really miss "Shadows of the Empire" for the Nintendo 64 🙁 It'd be nice if they did some sort of collection of the older Star Wars games, but I imagine there are too many developers involved and too much red tape.
shadows of the empire wasn't very good. great for nostalgia, and an epic hoth level. but it sucked. also, isn't starkiller the original name of luke in lucas' early sw drafts?
My favorite Boba Fett moment was when he got killed by a blind Han Solo accidently hitting his jet thing which caused him to fall into the mouth of that thing. It was awesome.
Just fucking remake Tie Fighter already.
Ineffective?? Well I'll give you the dumb death scene, but he *did* capture Han Solo in Empire. And with that, I vanish again into the nerdly ether…
correction, vader and a legion of stormtroopers captured solo at cloud city.
Yeah… Boba Fett didn't capture Han Solo. He just delivered the frozen package to Jabba. Then he died that ignominous death. It is a bit baffling how Boba Fett got to be so popular. He's not really a bad ass at all… I guess it shows the power of having a cool helmet.
Yeah, but Boba Fett was totally the one that tracked Han and the others to Bespin and called in the Imperials before the Falcon even arrived.
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