Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

"Betrayed by Vader for the last time, a new journey begins with something worth fighting for... someone worth dying for... and I will not stop... I will not rest... Vader can't stop me now! [...] Vader can't stop me now... Nothing can."

- Starkiller escapes the Kamino facility

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is the follow up to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and was announced at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards on December 12, 2009. The story still takes place between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, six months after the first Force Unleashed video game.

Story
After Galen Marek's death aboard the first Death Star, Darth Vader attempts to bring him back by taking his body to Kamino to have him cloned. His motive is to have the perfect Sith Warrior. Marek is once again trained under Vader, being told that he is one of the many attempts to clone his original self, and that all the others had gone insane, leading the clone to doubt his mental stability. But when he experiences a vision that shows Vader betraying his original self, he finally chooses to escape Kamino by stealing Vader's TIE Fighter and begins to experience memories of a life he does not remember living. Vader soon hires Boba Fett to track down Juno Eclipse, predicting Marek will follow. Fett requests a Stormtrooper squad, Vader, however, provides him with a group of snarling and slouching warriors. Galen tracks down General Rahm Kota, who has been captured by the Empire and is being held on Cato Neimoidia for execution in the palace of Baron Tarko. He fights his way through the opulent domain, and then proceeds to rescue Kota after a seven-day gladiatorial ordeal. Tarko then releases the Gorog, the giant creature featured in the teaser trailer. Marek also travels to Dagobah, after it was mentioned by Kota, and it stuck in Galen's mind. As the game progresses, Kota begins to wonder about the origin of Galen, stating that Jedi and Sith cannot be cloned. After this, Galen begins to question the same thing as well. In Starkiller's visions it shows him along with General Kota aboard a starship. We see them leaving hyperspace over the cloning planet Kamino. At this point Kota is preparing for battle. The game will include a light side and dark side ending like the original game, in which one side is canon and the other invented for the purpose of the game.

Promotion
The first trailer depicts a hooded man walking along a hall, apparently oblivious to the fact that he is using the Force to destroy everything around him while the voices of Yoda and Darth Vader are speaking about the light and dark sides' paths. As the voices conflict, the man appears to become more confused and frustrated, as the destruction he leaves in his wake becomes more chaotic. The man stops when the voice of Juno Eclipse is heard. He stops destroying the hallway, and as he lowers his hood, he appears to be Galen Marek. He enters an arena on Cato Neimoidia while a dead rancor is thrown in the air and lands near him. A Gorog then appears from the gate and Galen charges his Force lightning before firing it at the massive beast. He subsequently pulls out two blue lightsabers and jumps onto the beast. The background fades and the lightsabers become the Roman numeral "II" behind the Force Unleashed logo. 

The game was also advertised by its own website featuring the trailer and the press release from LucasArts. On May 26, the website was modified to feature a first-person perspective of someone in a Cloning tank, known as Subject 1157. The tank featured a holographic display where users could click on and play minigames which periodically unleash visions. In two medical entrys, there are passwords to unlock: KAMINO and JUNO. On July 28, the website was updated once again to include an interactive menu.

The second trailer was premiered on June 11, 2010. It shows Starkiller chained to the floor surrounded by stormtroopers. Darth Vader tells him he has served his purpose and he has no more need for the apprentice. Ordering his execution, Vader walks out. As the stormtroopers move in for the kill, Starkiller grasps his chains and the lights go out. He jumps around and takes out the troopers one by one. Walking into the hallway, Starkiller meets more troopers and an armored flamethrower droid, which he destroys by splitting the gas tank on it's rear and firing Force lightning into the escaping gas, causing an explosion. He then meets more troopers and a giant four-legged walker, all of which he mercilessly destroys, vaporizing a large number with a violent Force repulse. Surveying the damage, Starkiller is surprised by a Titan spider droid. The droid attacks the warrior with a laser blast, but Starkiller absorbs the laser and uses lightning to damage the droid's leg. As the droid topples, Starkiller slashes the droid's front legs off and jumps on top of it, vicously stabbing and slashing the droid apart. Jumping off, Starkiller lifts the damaged droid into the air, crushing it before leaping up and slicing it in half. As Starkiller leaves, he declares he has something to fight for, and no one, not even Vader, can stop him. Meanwhile, levels below, Vader walks into a room filled with cloning tanks, and one of the clones wakes up.

On October 6, 2010, a new gameplay trailer was released, showing more detailed cutscenes/cinematics of Kamino, Cato Nemoidia, and The Salvation. Apparently, as seen in the trailer, Starkiller will face unstable clones of himself with silver lightsabers. Also, many new and unidentified enemies appeared in the trailer. In October 12 the demo for the game was released for both Xbox 360 and PS3, the demo is focused on the planet of Kamino at the first level where Starkiller escapes from the cloning facilities and steals Vader's TIE Fighter to get off the planet.

Characters

 * Sam Witwer as Galen Marek/Starkiller —The only character to physically appear in the first trailer. This Starkiller is said to be the only stable clone of the original, with Galen's memories returning to him during scientific experiments on Kamino. Whether he is really a clone or a mind-wiped Galen Marek is unknown.
 * Matthew Sloan as Darth Vader — Returning as master to Starkiller, Vader has created a more obedient copy of his former apprentice, surprised at Starkiller's turn at the end of the last game.
 * Tom Kane as Yoda — Galen Marek will meet Yoda when he travels to Dagobah. He suggests to the troubled young man, who is unaware of the Grand Master's identity or Force sensitivity, to search for whatever is missing from him inside the Dark Side Cave.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Boba Fett— Fett is hired by Vader to track down the escaped Starkiller by kidnapping Juno as bait. He is also provided with Terror Troopers and tools from the Empire to help accomplish the job.
 * Nathalie Cox as Juno Eclipse
 * Cully Fredrickson as Rahm Kota
 * David W. Collins as PROXY

Gameplay
A new fighting style has been revealed which shows a more realistic style of fighting. As well, the targeting reticule has been shown, which is more precise and is now more defined. Also, lightsaber dismemberment has been confirmed.

The Force powers from the last game will return with a couple new ones. One of these is the mind trick, which makes enemies fight along side the player or run off a ledge killing themselves, depending on the situation.

Anyone who purchases the collectors' steel box special edition of the game will have the opportunity to play as the "original Starkiller" as designed by Ralph McQuarrie in early drafts of Star Wars.



Those that make a pre-order for the game from participating Gamestop stores and website will be given a code to unlock the exclusive "Maulkiller" skin. This skin is said to be a creation of the DNA of Darth Maul and Galen Marek. Also included in the pre-order is a silver Lightsaber crystal which decreases force consumption. Maulkiller is only available for PS3 and Xbox 360. Also a rating for the game has been released. The games rating is T for teen for violence. Also a demo is to be released on the 12th of October of 2010. Players will also be able to unlock a "Guybrush Threepwood" skin from the Monkey Island series.

At Gamescon 2010, it was announced that there will be a light side/dark side choice in the game like the first Force Unleashed. As of October 19th the game's demo is available to all Xbox Live members.