Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 3 - 10 Things That Must Be Included

One home-run and a total misfire for part two, what would save the franchise?

by Ewan Paterson

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the first big Star Wars release of the new generation, and whilst it may not have ranked amongst the strongest of LucasArts games it still managed to deliver the experience of being a true master of the Force.

Bridging the gap between Episodes III and IV, TFU tackled a then-unexplored period in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, providing fans with a well-constructed story that depicted the birth of the Rebel Alliance and the fate of the then banished Jedi Order.

The sequel however, was disappointing on many levels. Gameplay was improved in some areas, but the title was burdened with a nonsensical plot that detracted much of the worth from the previous entry. To put it bluntly: Starkiller should have stayed dead. Despite being shelved with the untimely demise of LucasArts in 2013 - and with Visceral's yet-to-be-announced project being shrouded in mystery - there is still plenty of potential for a third entry to be on the table.

The makers of the original Force Unleashed demonstrated a remarkable capacity to tell an engrossing narrative with fun, over the top gameplay to boot, and with the demise of the highly anticipated 1313 there's a big Star Wars-shaped hole that now needs filling.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.