The Force Is Strong With This One
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
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The highly anticipated Star Wars
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Continually on the cutting edge, LucasArts employed newly developed technologies to create a more realistic visual landscape: Digital Molecular Matter (by Pixelux Entertainment) lets developers work with the actual physical properties of matter so that glass shatters, plants bend and wood splinters as it would in the real world. Euphoria (by Natural Motion Ltd.) brings a more “human” quality to the characters, adapting their behavior on the fly and resulting in a different pay-off every time the game is launched.
“Sound design on a Star Wars game is always a big challenge because the bar has been set so high by Ben Burtt and John Williams on the films,” says David Collins, the game's audio lead designer. “Also, The Force Unleashed is the biggest audio project in LucasArts' history to date. The biggest compliment we can get when a Star Wars game is released is when reviewers say, “Yep, the sound comes straight from the films.” The Force Unleashed was a labor of love for the audio team, and we can't wait until consumers get to play it and hear it in September.”
The game is the first internally developed title for next-gen consoles and represents the first in-game collaboration between LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), two companies now under the same roof at the new Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio complex.
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