As I posted earlier, I am a fan of the game The Force Unleashed and am excited about the new game.  This brilliant story for the first game takes place in some of the gaps of the original Star Wars movies.  One year after Count Dooku and his Separatist army were defeated, Darth Vader is hunting the last of the Jedi.  On the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyyk, Vader discovers a child so strong in the Force that he chooses to hide him away and train him as his secret apprentice.  Vader plans to use this secret apprentice to overthrow the Emperor, but he is discovered and the Emperor orders Vader to Kill his apprentice.

So Vader stabs the apprentice in the back, uses a force grip to throw him around the room, and then tosses him through a window into the vacuum of space.  Umm, I think he’s pretty dead.  Qui Gon Jin was stabbed through the gut by Darth Maul and died from that singular saber wound.  So the idea of surviving the stabbing, AND the hurling about the room, AND the vacuum of space is pretty incredible.  But in the game you see a Droid come flying in and take away the body of the apprentice.

Six months later the apprentice awakes aboard Vader’s personal science vessel.  I didn’t really get this from the game, but this ship is supposed to be Vader’s secret lab for all kinds of experiments and tinkering.  The apprentice (code named Starkiller) awakes and he’s, well, he’s pretty upset.  He yells at Vader, “YOU KILLED ME!”  To which Vader replied, “NO!  The Emperor wanted you dead.  I salvaged your body and brought you here to be rebuilt.”  (italics added for emphasis).  Starkiller is ordered to help build the rebel alliance so that he and Vader will have an army to take down the Emperor.  As he is escaping from Vader’s ship, some of the troopers try and stop him and shout that “Experiment 1138 has escaped.”

Now we fast forward to the end of the story for this first game and “SPOILER ALERT”, Starkiller is betrayed and killed… again.  In the advertisements for the second game we see that Starkiller is alive, but how is this possible?  Wait, how did he survive the first time around?  Well, through the website for the new game we learn that the main character in the Force Unleashed II is a clone designated subject 1157.

So here’s the theory, Starkiller died and was cloned IN THE FIRST GAME!  In an the video interview below, LucasArts Exec. Producer Haden Blackman tells G4 that Vader tells Starkiller that he’s a clone, but very early on in the game the cast doubts on that statement.  I can’t wait to find out the rest of the story! The second game takes place 6 months after the ending of the first game, so I think that the “SIX MONTHS” also plays and important part of this story.

I don’t get involved in the online gaming scene, but the Star Wars massively multiplayer online game looks fantastic!  I wrote about it here when the game trailer premiered at the Electronics Entertainment Expo last year.  I guess these things take a long time to make, because here’s the new trailer from this year’s E3 convention.

After a terribly long break from blogging, I am back and posting!  Hopefully I can keep this up this time around.  I am a big fan of the game “The Force Unleashed” and am thrilled that there’s going to be a sequel.  I think that the thing that I enjoy the most about it is the way that it tells a new story that keeps bumping right up against the classic Star Wars story that I love.  Check out the video that was released over the weekend.

Sorry about the attention getting headlines, but I really would like to see this movie, and now I can… kinda.  I am big fan of the video game The Force Unleashed.  I liked it so much that I wanted to record every video and some of the gameplay and string it all together to make a movie (which is something that I actually did for the Star Wars Bounty Hunter game).

As I’ve been looking into these fan edits of movies, I came across a fan that had put together the scenes from the video game and made a DVD with chapters and intros and everything, but it’s in a PAL format.  I’ll have to figure something out so I can see how it looks.

The other thing that I really love about these fan edits it the DVD box art.  I’ve attached the image from the Force Unleashed movie and a different take on the original Star Wars movie.  You can explore this yourself over at FanEdit.org.

Lego Universe is a massive multiplayer online game where you can use bricks to collaboratively build your world. The adventures go through all the Lego themes like Space and City themes, as well as Pirates and Ninjas.  Here’s a trailer for the game.

Here is a video by Lego Universe developer NetDevil. After creating the game tools, the game is now in the world design stage, where advanced Lego users are helping NetDevil to create the actual worlds.

Here it is!  I’ve just finished the mini-poster for my own personal project titled, “s.a.m.M13″.  I’ll have 100 of these 5.5 x 8.5 prints to hand out next week at the San Diego Comic-Con.  If all goes well, I may even have some prototype toys as well!  The series production will begin after next weeks convention with the initial focus being on the production of a game.  I know it sounds like a big deal but the truth is that it’s going to be a TON of work doing this all on my own.  I’ll be posting more about the production here as I develops samM13’s site.  Wish me luck!

*because it’s a spy themed series, I couldn’t help but use the movie poster for Thunderball as reference.  :D 

I found this over at the video game site Kotaku, but you can keep up with all the info at the official site here.

Here’s some beeee-UTI-ful animation for the new Beatles Rock Band game.  For those who may not be familiar with Rock Band, it’s a video game where players get to simulate the performance of popular rock music songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments.  With the release of the Beatles Album into Rock Band, they are also releasing Beatles styled guitar instruments.  Sigh, I wonder how much this is going to be…

MMORP is Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing game.  It’s one of those vampire games that is SO Huge and SO involved that it drains your live away and you don’t have time to do anything else but play this game.  I like to think of these games as a type of Real World TRON.  You get sucked into a different reality.