Customer Reviews
Awesome! - By: I'LL DECIDE THAT, 29 Oct 2008 
This comic is excellent, its a bit too short as i finished itin literally 5 to 10 minutes but its great fun, the prints are clear & imaginative,in the short space of reading it it really grips you & it finishes on a good note it links to the force unleashed video game very well except some of the minor perhaps less important parts from the game weren't seenin the comic & at times it can be a bit confusing but it's great fun & i think if you're a star wars fan or not you still enjoy it & if you played the video game or not you can still enjoy it. Probably if you haven't played the game it will be more enjoyable & entrancing. It's also just a great collectible & a great interpretation of a great saga & the chapterin Star wars!
Same story, new faces, impossible powers - By: ShriDurga, 31 Aug 2008 
The Force Unleashed is about a young man with Force powers so immense he can whip Vader & the Emperor simultaneously. Based on a video gamein which you get to play this Force-wielding giant, the conceptual emphasis is on action & playability, rather than character or drama. Consequently the graphic novel reads like a series of set pieces, big fight scenes with a bit of exposition to tie them together. Ostensibly the plot concerns the inception of the Rebellion, but as with the beginnings of most thingsin the Star Wars universe, the origin of the Alliance is more than it seems.
Thematically, TFU cleaves closely to the SW universe formula - young man spends his life doing bad & redeems himselfin the end with a tiny act of good. The orphaned Starkiller is raised as Darth Vader's secret apprentice, an amoral assassin who dispatches with equal skill characters on both sides of the war. Somewhere along the way he switches to being a good guy with a conscience & a love interest, though it's not really clear how either develops. Neither is why the leaders of the Rebellion trust anyone who shows up at their door expressing an interestin sacking the Empire.
The artwork is a mixed bag, with Brain Ching opening & closing the story with some finely illustrated chapters. Unfortunately, as with his stint on Knights of the Old Republic, he seems unable to work fast enough to complete an entire project - or takes assignments with impossible deadlines - & so we get a couple of less skilled artists working on the middle sections.
There is a novel of the same name covering the exact same story. I haven't yet read it, but given author Sean Williams' track record (as coauthor of one of the worst chapters of the New Jedi Order), & given that the graphic novel isn't anything worth bragging about, I'd wager the novel is as limp, or with more extraneous material, even limper. My suggestion would be to unleash your own force on the game. That is, if you have a console. PC users will have to settle for the graphic novel.
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