Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed II – Cane and Rinse No.581

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Cane and Rinse

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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“PULL IT OUT OF THE SKY!” Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was marketed as an opportunity for players to live out their ultimate (Dark) Jedi power fantasies. Did the game succeed? Well, it certainly did commercially, leading to a sequel just two years later. Leon, Brian, Jon and community contributors polish their holocrons in a bid to convey what was successful and what wasn't about LucasArts' brace of stormtrooper-flinging lightsaber-fests. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_581.mp3 Music featured in this issue:1. The Force Unleashed Theme by Jesse Harlin2. The Force Unleashed II Theme by Mark GriskeyEdit by Jay Taylor You can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast.
0:35.4	It's volume 12 issue 581 and continuing
0:39.0	our run of Star Wars games. Today we're looking at the Force Unleashed and its sequel, which was
0:45.8	cleverly titled The Force The Force Unleashed 2. The Force Unleashed would have been something entirely
0:52.9	different. Anyway, joining me, Leon Cox,
0:55.3	in this issue, we have Brian Edwards. Hello, hello. And John Salmon. Hello. Welcome back,
1:01.4	folks. Yes, they are third person sci-fi fantasy action games. I suppose if you wanted a touchstone,
1:10.6	I think that it's fair to say that God of War on the PS2
1:14.2	was a pretty big influence on these.
1:18.1	Yeah,
1:18.3	that's how I would describe them.
1:20.1	They're like,
1:20.5	Devil May Cry style games.
1:22.4	Yeah, for sure.
1:23.4	Yeah,
1:23.6	I think especially God of War with the red and green
1:26.4	colored bars and the QTE bosses, the big scale set pieces and all that kind of thing.
1:34.6	I think looking at when this came out as well, I think God of War I was 2005 late in the PS2's life.
1:42.6	And this was 2008, so it kind of marries up.
1:46.0	What we're going to do is we're going to talk about both games kind of at the same time,
1:50.3	not literally, but bouncing between the two.
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