Section: Mac Software, Games, Reviews

Category: Action
Developer: Lucasarts
Mac Port: Aspyr
Minimum System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.5.8 (Leopard) or Mac OS X v10.6.2 (Snow Leopard), Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 25GB + 1GB Swap File, ATI Radeon HD2600 or NVidia Geforce 8600 video card, 256MB RAM, mouse
Review Computer: 2.2GHz 13” Macbook Pro, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM
Network Feature: No
Processor Compatibility: Intel only
Price: $39.99
Availability: Out now

The problem with the Jedi is that they’re hypocrites. They kill, they’re trained to kill, they carry quite possibly the greatest hand-to-hand weapon ever imagined, but we collectively pretend they’re really pacifists who kill thousands of Stormtroopers in defense. And they say they feel kinda bad about it (when asked).

The Force Unleashed gets around this rather neatly by making you a Sith apprentice. Specifically, you’re Darth Vader’s apprentice, being trained by him to assassinate the Emperor. So “moral conflict” doesn’t enter into the training manual much.

Force Unleashed is at its best when it’s engaged in wall-to-wall mayhem, and there’s a lot of that. Sent to assassinate three Jedi as part of your graduation, you run through an amazingly rendered world, killing everyone (and I mean everyone...