The Force Unleashed's Star Destroyer Moment Remains The Greatest In Star Wars History
thegamer.comThe Force. A mystical, possibly sentient presence that surrounds everything in the universe. The building blocks of the world and the ways in which we interact with it. What is this magnificent power used for, you might ask? Throwing small objects and a little bit of minor mind control seem to be all the Jedi can do with it in most of the films. Nice one, Qui-Gon.
The games are always where the Force has shined brightest, deliberately baked into gameplay as a spectacular way to keep players’ attention. That’s why the moment Starkiller rips an Imperial Star Destroyer out of orbit in The Force Unleashed remains my favourite use of the Force in the entire Star Wars universe – be that films, games, or the litany of TV series. It’s earned, triumphant, and makes the Force feel like a power unlike any other in the galaxy.
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Starkiller is easily one of the most powerful Force users in Star Wars media. Vader’s brutal training heightened the extreme natural talent the boy was born with. He can shoot lightning out of his fingertips and do the cool Force Repulse move, but pulling an Imperial Star Destroyer out of the sky and crashing it into Raxus Prime is still on an entirely different level.
To put the sheer size of those things into perspective, in Rogue One, we see one of them cast a shadow that dwarfs an entire town. Director Gareth Edwards is a master of scale, he’s shown us that in both Monsters and Godzilla, and for the first time in Star Wars history he showed us just how impossibly huge and terrifying Imperial Star Destroyers truly are.
Wrestling with the analogue sticks and seeing Starkiller clenching his fists, putting his all into
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