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Shame really, would've been a good advert for nvidia's physX
Get your $4000 PCs ready - Force Unleased is coming to PC!
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I think lucasarts have a reasonable point with the whole force unleashed thing tbh. Think of it this way, the force unleashed is one of (if not the) only games thats gameplay is hinged on physics processing. While in games like crysis you can just turn down the physics detail when your system starts to get upset with no other real effect other than eye candy, in the force unleashed if you did it would take away from the gameplay itself.
While i'm sure 90% of users on this forum have the multiple core CPUs that make physics processing an absolute breeze, i bet the standard consumer is much less likely to have hardware capable of it. While the 360 and PS3 are obviously inferior to the sort of PCs most people on here will have, they DO have multiple core processors as standard and thus the physics that the gameplay hinges on can be utilized with the hardware available in mind. When a core gameplay mechanic relies on hardware it is difficult to make it scalable for low end systems.
Meh, it's all a moot point anyway, as stated above the game still isn't coming to the PC, and the demo was a bit average imo anyway.
While i'm sure 90% of users on this forum have the multiple core CPUs that make physics processing an absolute breeze, i bet the standard consumer is much less likely to have hardware capable of it. While the 360 and PS3 are obviously inferior to the sort of PCs most people on here will have, they DO have multiple core processors as standard and thus the physics that the gameplay hinges on can be utilized with the hardware available in mind. When a core gameplay mechanic relies on hardware it is difficult to make it scalable for low end systems.
Meh, it's all a moot point anyway, as stated above the game still isn't coming to the PC, and the demo was a bit average imo anyway.
So the Wii can run it and any pc build/brought in the last 18 months cannot ?.
The wii version isn't at all the same as the PS3/360 versions tho, neither is the DS version believe it or not
. They're releasing a severely cut back version of the game for the Wii which apparently has far less utilization of physics and instead replaces it with wavy arm stuffs. Yet again, it is a piece of hardware with standard components and therefore can be scaled accordingly and the gameplay was adjusted to meet this new build. The problem with the PC is that the hardware isn't standard, and so the physics mechanics can not be adjusted without affecting the gameplay, as mentioned previously, the Wii versions gameplay has been tweaked considerably.
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Pity it seems a bit rubbish from the demo 
A PC could run TFU with no problems whatsoever. Physics isn't *that* intensive, and the graphics in TFU certainly aren't something that compares to Crysis. Basically the $4000 argument is a cop out - they are too concerned about piracy.
Of course a PC can run it.
What they mean is someone with a GeForce 7200 won't be able to see the game as its intended to be seen, which I can understand in a way.
It's still silly not to release it though
