The Force Unleashed (Star Wars)

The success of "The Force Unleashed" video game not only comes from ground breaking game play and physics but the story. The story behind TFU is brilliant. I just finished the book and the I must say that it is one of the best Star Wars stories ever written. These new characters and the story they tell seemlessly merge the prequel era and orginal trilogy. I like this story way more than the prequels and it deserves to be placed on the silver screen. Lucasfilm has a winner with this one. I hope they take advantage of this great story they produced. I'd see it several times.

This Book Is the Ultimate Star Wars Novel Tying together A Lot of missing Continuity Facts. Now the Story can be told as I update my review. The Book must be read. If you have the Game and get through it, most of the story will be told and with Unbelievable Graphics. The Graphic Novel tells the Basic Story, but is an east read to get the basic Idea. Although the Graphic Novel is told as a flashback story, like it already happened. Not the best way to tell a tale a grand as this. The Del Rey Book Written by Sean Williams Is the Ultimate Fact Machine. It tells the entire Story in Spectacular Detail. It starts out as Vader is on a mission he discovers a Jedi, Starkiller's father. After Dispatching of him, he saves the boy, Starkiller( Which for all trivia buffs, was Skywalkers Original Last name Until the Script Revision) Anyway Vader takes the boy. Fast Forward. "Vader's Secret Apprentice" Is a trained. "Not quite" Sith. He goes on mission after mission, succeeding in them all. His companions are a former Jedi Drunk an Imperial Female Officer. Only one of a very few(The Emperor has his reasons) and a Killer- companion droid Proxy who is supposed to train Starkiller with Lethal force. He can change shape and receive Transmitions from Vader. Anyway The plot is he is supposed to start the Rebel alliance and then destroy it. Vader is playing him along with the Emperor. He destroys target after target. Then when the Rebellion is almost Born. Vader Shows his true colors and the Leaders of the Rebellion are revealed. Only Leia is safe as her image was transmitted through a defeated Proxy. He was Defeated in battle by Starkiller including where Proxy Duplicates Darth Maul. This Battle Disables Proxy's Programing to kill Starkiller. Then Starkiller is defeated the Rebellion is captured. He tracks Down Vader at the, Under Constuction Death Star. He Sends His Love to Juno, The Former Imperial Officer, she helped set his mind right. He battles his way to face Darth Vader and after a major battle Defeats Vader when facing the Emperor The energy allows the rebel leaders to escape, Starkiller absorbs all the force Energy Killing him. Vader and the Emperor Survive (Of corse, Plot has to continue) The realize the rebellion the wanted to start to desrtoy the Emperors enemies unwittingly Will become a problem for them. However it is one they "Believe" they can handle. Then cut. Bail Organa, Leia, Mon Mothma, and the others Realize the Rebellion will start and they use his symbol as the symbol for the Rebellion. Overall a Great Read and an Unbelievable Story. On a Side note if you want A Great Game With Out of this world Game play Get the Game it is Fantastic. 5 Stars for Everything

Really cool story that fills the gap between episodes 3 and 4. Good writing, great story telling, excellent twists and concepts. It also does a great job detailing the struggle between good and evil. You can really see why Lucas signed off on this project.

All I need now is a movie! Imagine seeing StarKiller in action on the big screen!

This is a well written, interesting book! It is a tie-in to the game, the Force Unleashed, and is an excellent addition to the Star Wars saga. This book is about Darth Vader's apprentice, and the Force Unleashed novel even includes the birth of the Rebel Alliance! There are only certain types of books that keep my attention, and Star Wars books always keep me entertained. The Force Unleashed is definately the type of book that keeps my attention! There are lots of twists and turns, and I was very suprised with some of the events in the book. I highly reccommend this book to Star Wars fans!

I'm gonna wreck the storyline, not just the fact that it's just a play by play of the game for people who are too inept (or like me and their machines are too inept) to beat the video game.

The story is pathetic attempt to give an interesting beginning to the rebellion. It basically attributes all success of the starting of the rebellion to a pathetic sith/jedi wannabe with ridiculous force powers. It also introduces into the story yet another jedi character who now must die sometime before the appearance of luke skywalker. It presents a series of stupid kinks into the midst of a well developed storyline (known as the expanded universe) that somehow fail to mentioned anywhere else by primary characters who live far into the future.

Also, this book fails to fit into the 16 year time frame between the end of revenge of the sith (ie, the birth of luke and leia) and the beginning of A New Hope. The main character is mysteriously aged from about age 4 to his late teens early twenties without interrupting the timeline laid out so well before.

The ease with which the main character again defeats so many integral (and impossible characters) and the implacable star wars logic that killing the bad guys is a bad idea, leads little credibility to the story line, and I hope die hard star wars fans join me in black listing this as being an actual part of the star wars expanded universe.