EUCast TFU Special: Live this Weekend + G4 XPlay Force Unleashed Review…

EuCantina have posted that they’ll be putting on a special LIVE , 2-hour long episode, tonight at 7:30 PM Est, on EUCast where they’ll be discussing and reviewing the Force Unleashed. The show will be broadcast on PodRace.net.

We have also updated our cheats sections and walkthrough section. Stay tuned for the XBOX 360 walkthrough!

“We invite everyone to join us! Here are some things to look forward to:

1) Free live chat with other Star Wars fans during the show. Hosts can chat with you too.

2) The ability to get your opinion of TFU heard on our show. You can do this in three ways:

-Email: Send us an email stating any thought or opinion you have of the game. These emails can be sent from now until the end of the show. We will be checking our emails during the show. At the end of the episode, and at various points through-out the show, we will be selecting emails to read live on-air. You can send emails to eucast@eucantina.net

-Call us Live! During the show, you will have the opportunity to call us and talk on-air. Here’s how: Download the free program Skype. Then, before the show, invite us to your Skype Contact list. We will accept. At certain times during the show, we will ask for callers. Just open up a chat with us and type in what you want to say. We will call you. Our Skype name is theeucast.

-Send us a Voice-Mail: You can also send us a voice-mail to 206-203-4476. Be sure to state your name and what console you played TFU on.

3) Our all-star panel. We will have Austin Blankenship, Andrew Lupi, Lawrence Davis, Tom Pniewski, and Nathan Butler. (Yes, the Nathan P. Butler)

4) Reviews of the Xbox-360, DS, PS3, and Wii versions of the game.

The FU Special of EUCast will be released on Sunday, while EUCast # 36 will be released on Monday. Please be aware: EUCast has gone back to a pre-recorded show that will be released each Monday; this will be announced and specified upon in EUCast # 36. For more information on EUCast, the official podcast of EU Cantina.net, hit Features and then click EUCast.”

In other news, G4TV X-Play has posted their review on The Force Unleashed. They’ve posted a written review as well as a video review. Here’s what they had to say:

Pros:

Great story
Top-notch visual design
Some cool powers to play with

Cons:

Never quite comes together
Uninspired combat system
Difficult camera
Dull level design
Uninteresting boss fights
Numerous bugs and glitches
Horrible Star Destroyer sequence

They told me they fixed it!

The above issues alone simply result in an average brawler, but the retail copy we played was chock-full of bugs and glitches. Numerous enemies ended up pushed through walls or floors, some were totally invulnerable to everything but death by falling, others refused to acknowledge the apprentice was even in front of them and simply waited for death. No less than four hard crashes on three different Xbox 360s resulted in having to reset the systems entirely. And, perhaps worst of all, the Bonus Objective on the final level is listed simply as ‘Default Text,’ and the Force Point and Holocron counters don’t function at all, meaning that the upgrade points for those objectives cannot be earned. It’s rather disturbing to see such serious bugs in what should be an A-list game from an A-list franchise.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed should have been much better than it is. The concepts are solid, the story is excellent, and the characters sustain. Aesthetically it is a beautiful piece of work. It’s just not all that much fun to play, especially when bugs have left parts of the game incomplete. Fans should rent it and go through the story to see what happens to the apprentice and the key events in Star Wars history he takes part in, but they shouldn’t expect to have much fun between the cutscenes.

Check out the rest of the review here.

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