Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Could Use a Full Remake

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comes to the Switch in April, which is great news. It's far from a perfect game, but in its time, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was a major milestone in the progression of Star Wars games thanks to its variety of offensive Force powers, intense melee combat, and lightsaber customization. While it isn't canonical, Force Unleashed's story also offers one interesting possibility for how the Rebellion against the Empire began. What's more, Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games' Force Unleashed port inspires some hope that the Force Unleashed franchise will get a second wind in the coming years, long after a third game got canceled.

However, one has to wonder if a port of the original Wii game is the best way to revive the franchise, or if a Switch remake would have been better. Putting the Wii version on the Switch is great for certain reasons; for instance, the Switch can emulate the Wii version's empowering movement controls. However, The Force Unleashed is well over a decade old, and there's a few significant ways that it hasn't aged well; with only one trailer for the game so far, it's hard to say just how much Aspyr will fix. As such, The Force Unleashed may have been better off getting rebuilt from the ground up.

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Certain parts of The Force Unleashed's Wii version weren't serious issues in their time, but have become unfavorable over time. For one thing, The Force Unleashed is an extremely narrow, linear game. Players move through a strict set of levels with few side paths to explore and no opportunity to replay previous levels without restarting the game. That campaign design is bound to feel claustrophobic compared to