As a Star Wars fan, I’ve realized that quality video games are really a hit and miss proposition.  On the plus side we’ve got the sublime KOTOR and the frantic Rogue Squadron, on the other games like Bounty Hunter and Masters of Teras-Kai.  Being part of an established franchise isn’t easy.  The expectations of a Star Wars game generally go beyond that of good gameplay.  Story and character play an integral role.  A good game will nail these, but a great game?  A great game will create a new scenario with fresh faces while tying into enough of the existing mythos to change the way we look at the Star Wars universe.  Force Unleashed is a great game.

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No word of this online yet, so I’m wondering if there’s just a bad box of Jedi floating around in my neck of the woods.  I’ve made no secret of my work in a retail/rental games outlet (keen listeners to the bitcast should know the franchise I pimp for).  Over the past few days we’ve had three returns of Force Unleashed PS3.  Three.  To put that into perspective, it’s almost October and these are the first game returns that we’ve had due to brand new defective product all year.  That sounds like a lot more than coincidence to me.

All three returns had the same complaints — the game would freeze, be buggy when it worked, or wouldn’t load all together.  Not knowning their set ups, I can’t help but wonder if maybe the game isn’t running right on older firmware or if there was a patch at launch to fix these issues.  If these customers keep their consoles offline, maybe that’s what’s going on.

On a side note I’m playing the 360 version as we speak.  My only problem?  I need a towel the size of Texas to clean up after my nerdgasm.

Anyone else out there having issues?