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The Force Unleashed, Guide, Review and Walkthrough.
Well after a short wait I've got my copy of the The Force Unleashed. I've finished it over two days. The Force Unleashed has been released on all platforms, meaning you can get it on the Wii, PS3, Xbox360, PSP, Nintendo DS and for that matter also on the PC. This review will concentrate mainly on the The Force Unleashed for the Wii (but many of the suggestions will be applicable to other platforms). The Wii though has it over other platforms already because of the interactive controls give you the feeling of one with the game - use the Wii Force Son, use the Force ..... seriously though if you want to force push you just push out with the left nunchuck - so much more fun than just pushing a button. Want to swing your light saber - swing the Wii remote.
This walk through isn't go to tell you every place to find a Jedi Holocron, or give you a full route map - but it will give you enough to understand and complete the game.
In the Wii game there are some important concepts to master they included Saber Lock and Force Lock.
Saber lock is when your light saber collides with your opponent's lightsaber. You need to overpower your enemy before they overpower you. Twist the Wii remote - like you would if you turned on a tap very quickly. Small quick twists are the key here - otherwise you will overshoot the position the remote needs to be in. Then once you are locked in punch out. You will need to do this 4 - 6 times depending on the strength of your opponent - and you will have to do it as quick as possible.
Force lock is when your Force Powers connect with the Force Powers of your foe. Same deal as above but with the nunchuck. If you win you give your enemies a bit of a kicking.
Other moves A button for dash - covers a short piece of ground in a very quick time - good to dash on your enemies with lasers to bring them into light saber range quickly. Z held and then punched to open blocked passages. Z held to pick up an object and then swing the nunchuck to throw/direct it. My Favourites - hold Z to lift up an opponent and tip your nunchuck upside down and chock your opponent to death. - C Button, once for a directed lightening bolt, Twice for two handed lightening strike (only available later in the game). This is a good way to clear out five or more enemies at once and can be done on the run.
There up a whole heap of different moves you can purchase when you get enough force points. You get force points by killing opponents. I just concentrated on upgrading Lightening and Chock to their maximum although there are more options than you can possibility unlock - some requiring a special combination of moves - I won't go through all the move on The Force Unleashed as when your in the Rogue Shadow (your ship) you can bring up information on the combination required for each power - needless to say most are a form of sith explosion, or light saber move.
Following the map is easy - head towards the green section. If your having difficulty finding it - try going up a lift or jumping up or down a level. Don't forget many new levels can only be reached by pushing open a wall, barrier, etc - but a "Z" will always come up if this is an option.
The story - The Force Unleashed - fits in between episodes 3 & 4 with appearances by Princess Leia (they should have used Carri Fisher's Voice), Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and others. You actually start the main story as Darth Vader fighting the Wookies hunting down more Jedi. You find one and kill him. You then take on his son as your apprentice. Every level is similar - you fight a bunch of enemies and normally end the level with a battle against a "boss", either a Jedi, a Force User, a Rancor or a AT-ST.
The Rancor and AT-ST are hard to kill as they don't duel you in the traditional way, I suggest the best way to beat them is get to there rear and stay there - sniping away at their legs and giving them the odd blast of force lightening. They can't turn well so once your behind them its just a matter of wearing down the bar meter until you get to the Finishing moves - these are really easy with the Wii just punch out whatever comes up on the screen - if its a nunchuck punch out the nunchuck, if its a picture of a remote - punch the remote - ignore the arrows - it doesn't matter which direction - just punch forward. Once you become Darth Vader's apprentice you assist in locating and wiping out more Jedi. You go to familiar Star War worlds from all 6 episodes. The Emperor discovers Darth Vader has you as his apprentice and is none to please and commands Darth to kill you - which he appears to do.
Vader says he wants you to start a rebellion to keep the Emperor busy. You comply and started building a rebellion. Along the line you learn that Vader killed your Father and you turn to the good side and want to really start a rebellion. This consists of rescuing various senators and destroying some ship yards.
Once you've got the council assembled Vader betrays you again and says the whole thing was an elaborate plan to get rid of the Emperor's enemies and you are disposable as well. You escape, and go on to rescue the council - in the process you fight Vader and then the Emperor. Vader is tough, and the Emperor is insanely tough with a huge repertoire of force powers and he drops explosions of one kind or another and is quicker than you can possibly react - the only way to defeat him is ignore the force powers and just go completely spastic with the light saber - a figure of 8 motion from the wrist on the Wii remote gets some nice saber moves going, if you get to his back go for it as its the best way to weaken him - i.e. a stab in the back. You defeat but decide not to kill him - bad mistake!
You save the council and then ..... die - bit of a let down really and not the traditional way to end the game - but you have to make room for Luke Skywalker and his showdown with Daddy and it wouldn't be good to have you spoil it all by killing Vader and the Emperor right now.
Oh well your corny death inspires the symbol of the rebellion.
The game also comes with a dual option which means you can have fun fighting your mates. One move you must master press the A button and hold the Wii remote horizontal - 9pm-3am to block lightening. Once your enemy stops hit him/her with a blast of force push to punish them for attempting to electrocute you. Once you get past just sapping each other, and learning the blocks, your going to have to learn some kick ass light saber moves to win long term.
If you liked Star Wars - Jedi Outcast, or Stars Wars Jedi Academy - then you are going to like this game. Go buy or download your copy of Star Wars now.
Still buying your games from a store? - download them online and save yourself money.
For all fans of the Stars War genre - the latest release due out today for the Nintendo Wii - The Force Unleashed is eagerly anticipated. I will shortly be picking up my copy and will give you a full review of the Force Unleashed for the Nintendo Wii.
Another Star Wars game - Light Saber Battles is also shortly due out and I'll give that a rave as well.
Recent Wii games that I've played include Lego - Stars Wars the complete saga (Stars Wars once again - I think we are following a theme here).
Lego Stars Wars is a great game for the family to play with the right amount of 'slaughter' of enemies combined with puzzles. If you get too stuck on a level there are a number of walkthrough's available online. Buy the complete saga - as it covers the whole series and generally follows the story lines of the movies with a few extra comedic additions. I found using lasers not as much fun as using the light saber so although you can play most of your favorite star wars characters I mainly stuck with the Jedi. If you carefully block laser shots you can return the shot back to the sender - in fact to defeat Darth Maul you need to block laser shots from his accompanying troops.
You will need both the Wii remote and nunchuck and the game is more fun if you play with two players. Some puzzles require two players working together in a team effort and rather than having to constantly switch between players - play with a friend. You run around defeating opponents, battling end of level super opponents and collecting numerous lego money, gold and hearts.
Apart from the 6 levels following the six movies there are a whole heap of bonus levels, and sub-games. Not every level involves just slicing and dicing through your enemies. There are a number of flying levels - including taking down the AT-ST vehicles with two cables.
Lego Star Wars proved such a hit that there have followed a number of other Lego games - including Lego Indiana Jones, and Lego Batman - look for them in future reviews.
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Downloading to your Wii. How to set up your Wii to download.
Many people fail to use their Wii capabilities to the max. because they fail to use the huge hard drive and run the internet option.
In order to set up your Wii so you can download all the goodies, like movies, music, games and more for your Wii you need to have a wireless internet connection set up in your home.
Most PC users, particularly those with a laptop will already have a wireless connection set up in their home. For those that don't you will need to buy a wireless router. You can get a good one for under $100. Don't go for a top of the line one that transmits to the whole suburb - just get one that will do your house. Most do an average size house with no problem at all - so don't get carried away. Setting up a wireless router is pretty easy - just follow the instructions that come with the box - you will normally have two cables - one from router to phone line/ broad band/cable line, and one from router to your main desktop computer. Importnant note - Write down and Copy down the WAP code when you set up the router (or you will have to hunt for it through your windows control panel => wireless => etc)
With a wireless connection in the house connecting to the internet with your Wii is simple.
Steps to connect your Wii to the internet.
From the main channel menu click on the round circle "Wii" button on the bottom left of the screen. This will open up Wii options.
Click on the Wii settings option on the right.
Click on the right arrow to bring up the second page.
This will bring up four options (parental controls, sensor bar, internet, Wii connect24). Click the third one "internet"
The Wii will start scanning for wirless connections. Choose your connection (normally the standard router name, or the name you may have called it "smith family wireless router" and the Wii will then want the WAP code (remember the one I told you to write down earlier).
Type that in using the Virtual keyboard and your ready to go.
Your Wii has a number of channels already build in - Weather, News, and Wii shop.
You will then to go to the Wii shop and buy the URL browser channel option (you need 500 Wii points - $15 about). You can get Wii points by either buying online with your credit cards, or attending your local store and buying a card with points on - a bit like a mobile phone pre-paid credit card). You have now set up your Wii as another internet browser (internet for your TV). Now time to make the most of it by downloading games, music and movies to your Wii. Just type in the URL address of download sites you have joined - this is much cheaper option in the long term than buying off the Wii shop channel.
There are a number of download sites available for your Wii and I will review them for you in later posts.
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Bully is another classic from rockstar games. Known for such games as the grand thief auto series, Bully follows many of the same missions but is set within a school yard. As such there is no firearms, no killing and some new interesting side lines.
Of unique interest is the best way to get your health increased to twice its normal leve .... You kiss - snog is probably a better description.
You can also increase your health in bully by drinking sodas.
Along with the boarding school theme you can get a number of weapons of a juvenile nature - including stink bombs, sling shots, spud guns, bottle rocket gun, itching powder, fire crackers, bags of marbles, eggs, paint cans and of course your own fists. This is where the Nintendo Wii takes bully to a new level over and above what other consoles can offer. You want to box on with someone - you box on, trust me you can get quite a workout. Especially when you fight in the preppies boxing ring for 16 rounds!!!.
You can learn a number of moves to increase your fighting abilities, including leg sweeps, head butts and the classic knee to the groin (having suffered this particular move in real life I am intimately acquainted with the damage and pain this can cause), so much better to leave this type of behavior in the virtual world.
Their are 87 missions that I've completed, most follow a central story line between you the main character - James (Jimmy) Hopkins and Gary Smith - a deeply disturbed young man and Pete your wimpy side kick!
Other characters in Bully include the Preps (yuppies), Jocks (large sporting types), the bullies (white shirt and jeans), the greasers (50's rejects), Nerds (if you don't know what a nerd is, its likely you are one), along with little kids, the bigger girls (the large chested ones ;), as well as the prefects (the ones who bust you and slam you to the ground and drag you off to the principals office), and the teachers. In town are police, adults, students and assorted losers.
As with most rock star games, bully has a number of maps that slowly open up to you as the game progresses. The main town, the upper class suburbs, the slums, and more industrial slums. Running all around this huge town would take ages, thankfully there are a number of other transport options including your always handy skateboard (and the back to the future ride hitch), bicycles, scooters, and the go kart. Once you have the go kart - this will be the only way you well choose to get around town as it is lighting fast. Get this by winning all the go kart races - it waits for you outside the front of the shop near you personal garage.
Bully has a number of 'collectibles', including destroying gnomes, collecting cards, rubber bands (which gets you a new rubber band ball weapon when you have them all). There is one difficult rubber band on top of a roof in town with no ladder to get there - you can't jump the gap from the neighboring roof top - you need to jump while on your skate board - a tricky maneuver, but I got it on the third go. Also 6 radios are collectible and you can trade them to a vagrant to teach you fighting moves.
The only annoying thing with the Wii version of the game is the camera control in some missions, which can be very tricky - you need to push the Wii remote hard at the screen and then aim it carefully - the designers could have used more sensible options to direct your camera - the camera is needed to complete some missions and take year book photos - or just happy snaps of your game.
Bully is set in a boarding school so of course you have CLASSES - with a variety of teachers you probably met some time during your school career - if somewhat over dramatized. The classes include art, english, chemistry, maths, shop, music, gym, photography, biology and geography.
English is the hardest and here is a cheat list for the Wii bully game.
English 1
Available words:- low, mew, elm, mow, woe, owe, owl, mewl, mole, meow, moll, well,
mellow
English 2
sit, its, fit, fig, ifs, , hit, gift, sift, fish, figs, fist, hits, sigh, fits, this, gist, shift, gifts, fight, sight, fights
English 3
lei, mil, lie, elm, slim, leis, miss, mess, semi, isle, less, lime, mile, elms, lies, mise, seism, slims, miles, limes, smile, slime, isles, smiles, slimes
English 4
arc, oar, any, cay, car, coy, can, yarn, cran, orca, roan, racy, cyan, narc, nary, cony, corn, rayon, corny, acorn, carny, crony, crayon, nay, yon, cry, ran, con, rya, nor, ray
English 5
egg, rag, rad, age, red, gag, erg, gar, dag, are, era, ear, gad, egad, dear, gage, rage, drag, read, dare, grad, gear, dreg, aged, gager, agger, raged, grade, ragged, dagger
Maths is no knock over either - calculate fast or miss out.
Gym is great to learn new fighting moves.
Music, art and photography are about as pointless as they are in 'real' school. Photography at least gets you a camera.
Shop gets you a varying progression of better and better BMX bicycles.
Chemistry enables you to cook up itching powder, stink bombs and fire crackers in your dorm room.
The main buildings in the school are the boys and girls dorms, the main school building - classrooms, cafeteria and principals office; the gym, the shop, the library, Harington house, the stadium and sports field and the observatory. Its easy to get around on skateboard - though jumping both sets of stairs to the main building requires pin point timing - but is possible. 
Some interesting school asides - playing dodgeball, pulling the fire alarms, kicking the soccer ball again the wall and just making a nuisance of yourselves. You can hide from authority figures in bins, lockers and porta-loos until your heat level cools down - it you can't find one - just run, skate or drive away. Don't try to take on the prefects - I've managed to knock one out, so I tried the spud gun - I got two but the other two prefects nailed me.
Bully is a great game - all the rock star brilliance without the blood.
Other areas of interest - the carnival - lots of fun games, rides and ability to earn tickets. The seaside and wharf - to get that last gnome on the barge don't forget to use your super slingshot. The mental asylum, the clothing shops, tattoo 'van', barber shops, theater and comic shops, BMX track.
You can even pick up odd jobs and earn money making food deliveries, paper round and mowing lawns. You will need the cash to buy all the clothes to get 100% completion.
My only complaint about the game is the main story finishes long before you complete 100% and the world it so huge it takes ages to 'collect' everything. Occasionally the Wii controls - particularly in chemistry and shop are hard to "copy" exactly - you will see what I mean.
The best part of bully - boxing on, causing mayhem and kissing the girls. Funnest part - watching your girlfriends pull each others hairs, least funny part - being kneed in the groin by an upset girlfriend - both can occur when your caught out playing the field.
I recommend Bully as a must have game for your Wii collection.
The Rancor and AT-ST are hard to kill as they don't duel you in the traditional way, I suggest the best way to beat them is get to there rear and stay there - sniping away at their legs and giving them the odd blast of force lightening. They can't turn well so once your behind them its just a matter of wearing down the bar meter until you get to the Finishing moves - these are really easy with the Wii just punch out whatever comes up on the screen - if its a nunchuck punch out the nunchuck, if its a picture of a remote - punch the remote - ignore the arrows - it doesn't matter which direction - just punch forward. Once you become Darth Vader's apprentice you assist in locating and wiping out more Jedi. You go to familiar Star War worlds from all 6 episodes. The Emperor discovers Darth Vader has you as his apprentice and is none to please and commands Darth to kill you - which he appears to do.
