Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an action-adventure video game developed and published by LucasArts. The was released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable in 2008, and for the Nintendo Switch in 2022. The game bridges the first two Star Wars trilogies, acting as the origin story for both the united Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Civil War depicted in the Original Trilogy and introduces a new protagonist named "Starkiller", a powerful Force user trained as Darth Vader's secret apprentice, who is tasked with hunting down Jedi survivors of the Great Jedi Purge while trying to keep his existence a secret. |