Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was published by LucasArts in 2008. Its story sits between the third and fourth episodes of the saga, and it puts you in the role of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, a character who had not appeared in the films.

The selling point was the handling of the Force. Combat is built on throwing objects and enemies around, pulling them in and using one against another, and two then-new technologies supported it: a character behaviour system that made enemies react to impacts with body movement instead of a canned animation, and a material system that let wood splinter and metal bend according to the stresses applied.

All of that made the game hardware-hungry, and the differences between platform versions were substantial. The 2008 release covered the consoles of that generation; the computer version followed a year later in an expanded edition, so the MS-DOS / PC heading in this record corresponds to that later release rather than the original one.

From the Star Wars brand it borrows chiefly the look and the music, while mechanically it is an action game with a fixed camera riding behind the character.

Expect the release year, the developer, the series and screenshots on this page, with no option to launch the game in a browser.