Star Wars The Unleashed Faces Development Trouble
June 27th 2008 01:00
LucasArts have taken the extrordinary step of risking one of its most highly anticipated titles yet by laying off staff from the development team of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
An ex member of the crack Jedi programming troupe has revealved that member of the team were released from their contracts before the title had wrapped up. He went on to say that the current team size was insufficient to handle the remaining work.
LucasArts has been qouted as towing the familiar company line around the importance of internal development, but you would have to question their commitment in the wake of this news.
The only hope looks to be through outsourced help. If this is the case, the last parts of the game will be completed by completely new people, with no history in the title. The Star Wars franchise has already suffered a credibility blow with the inclusion of characters in the upcoming Soul Calibre title. Although the majority of Unleashed has been completed this could spell bad news for a successful, bug free release.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is slated for release on September 16th.
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Want to know a credibility blow ? Star wars master of the Teras Kasi , one of the worst fighting game ever along Shaq fu ...
Want another ? half of the star wars video games with titles like all the star wars phantom menace titles (with the exception of star wars racer 1) ... all those mediocre snes and gameboy star wars platform/action games ... star wars yoda stories ... the other racers especially Super Bombad Racing ... Star wars Rebellion etc etc ...
Soul calibur 4 is a sequel of a proven fighting game franchise , and probably the star wars franchise's only chance to ever be featured in a good fighting game .
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