Remember The Force Unleashed? It's getting Trophies

by Jem Alexander on Jul 27th 2009 9:00PM

Of course Star Wars: The Force Unleashed isn't dead. Who told you that? Not only was a new version announced to be released this fall, but the LucasArts twitter feed has revealed that the original PS3 version will be receiving a Trophy patch around the same time. The only catch: You'll need to start a new game in order to begin earning Trophies; they aren't retroactive with existing saved games.

Sure, you'll still need to pony up the cash for the Ultimate Sith Edition if you intend on playing one of the new missions, but if, like us, you still have an unopened copy of the original sitting around from the Great Game Flood of Q4 2008, you'll no doubt welcome the excuse to finally crack it open. Apparently it's pretty good. For a Star Wars game.

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I might actually get the sith edition when it goes down in price, or if I'm extremely bored.

Just picked up TFU about a week ago for $15. Decent enough at that price. Already beat it and was going to play through again and get the evil ending then sell it. I guess I will hold on to it now and put it aside for a few months to wait for trophies.

Same here. Patching in trophies is always better late than never.

i got it the other day for £15, worse buy ever, such a glitchie game, never has a game made me so mad

Wait til later when your sliding across the floor unable to get up, getting trapped on scenery.. receiving instant hits.. it just get's worse.. The hardest difficulty I got through my dodging through (double jump-boost) til I found something I had to fight.. I even maxed out the character & never felt like a badass.. worst game I own..

I quite liked it =P.
Not a bad reason to play through it all over again.

Those bastards i just played through this with gamefly.......well im not playing it again, i was rather disappointed with it to begin with, especially the later levels

if I play thru both games does that mean I get 2 sets of trophies?? lol

That is actually a really good question. I'm sure they have figured out some way so they count as the same game.

SEGA did that with their Ultimate Genesis/ Ultimate Mega drive games

should I fire up the rest of my July 4th fireworks?

At a glance, I thought this was going to be about Soul Calibur IV getting trophies. I was disappointed until I realized I'd have to delete my save file with all of my unlocked equipment and created characters.

Then I read the article.

im sorry 1 year too late, it was a good game but i already sold it:( not much replayiblity though

should I fire up the rest of my July 4th fireworks?

as far as i can remember, most trophy patches aren't retroactive, and ffs who cares if it's just now coming out? It's worth playing again if you're really that hard up for trophies.

Just about the only retroactive trophy in patches are those fr online stuff

need for speed undercover was retroactive, i installed the patch and instantly got like 5-6 trophys for stuff i had done already (in game not online)

There has NEVER been a PS3 game with retroactive trophies, They tried several times but developers usually just come back saying they couldn't make it work and there's no way to make it work without risking an exploitable situation. Seriously everyone with a PS3 knows this already stop saying it everytime a patch is announced. When it finally DOES work then you can announce it and it'll be news until then just tell us when a game is getting trophies and WE'LL know already that we'll have to replay it.

As for the game itself it is a good game apart from the part where they rip off people with the original version of the game but that's a completely separate thing. I ended up having to reinstall all my content after a YLOD situation so I've lost my game save so I dont mind this since I have to restart it anyway. No skin of my nose.

Age of Booty actually had single-player retroactive trophies, but I think that's the only one with retroactive trophies.

Looks like you never played Need for Speed Undercover because they had retroactive trophies.

Good to see you make such damning comments.... and end up with egg on your face.As has been pointed out, there have been several retro trophies (I can confirm Battlefield Bad Company too, as I received them). Perhaps YOU should STOP shouting AT people.Personally I think since devs have the ability to stop you copying save data off a machine they could make trophies retro if they through about it at the point of game release, but it's usually too late. Part of me wants to pick this game up in a bargin bin, but that will depend how hard they make the trophies. I might check out the Xbox achievements to compare...

*cough* Warhawk *cough*

that's BS!
Need For Speed Undercover had retroactive trophies. So did Warhawk. Probably some others as well.

Why dont release next 2 years or 3,4,5 years later ..when everyone forgotten..
U already play once and now once more... :(...boring.

hmmm glad i past this up, could be an easy platinum if nothing else. my 9 year old brother lied it so maybe he can get the trophies for me lol

I believe pure had retro active trophies

Battlefield: Bad Company had retroactive trophies, too. But anyway, this will just give me another reason to jump back into this game along with the new DLC. I'm glad to see they're patching the old copies after all and not just putting trophies into the Sith Edition.

Trophies eh?

My friend has the game. I think I might play through it now and borrow it from him. Despite the fact that I am not a trophy whore (I don't play games just to get trophies), trophies can make a game more fun by adding further incentive to the missions rather than making it feel like what you're doing is meaningless. So for free I can suffer through the gameplay, be rewarded for my efforts, and experience the story! Hurrah!

Of course I remember it - i've been renting it for the past 3 weeks! :p

cool now it can sit in the "to be patched" section of the trophy portal for like a month after it gets them, like disgaea 3 and the last guy

I like it like that. Gives the site a fresh feeling.

this is great news. i never finished it. looks like i will wait a bit longer and just restart the entire game to earn some trophies!!

Sure, it's the kind of game you only play when you're 'in the mood' for some Jedi/Sith action, which is generally when you're in a Star Wars DVD-athon (I would've said BD-athon but they're not available Blu-Ray Disc, yet).

I hate to dash your hopes but according to this.

High Definition edition

It has been widely rumored that Lucasfilm plans on re-releasing the 6-film saga in Blu-ray Disc format with many new features and changes; however, John Singh, spokesperson for Lucasfilm, has denied there are any plans. He was quoted as saying "Lucasfilm Ltd. has no plans to release any of the Star Wars movies on Blu-ray. Listings on Amazon.com or any other Web site are purely speculative and erroneous.

That's typical Lucasfilm boilerplate. They don't ever say "Blu-Ray is coming in a year or two" because then people will wait for those instead of picking up the DVDs now.

They will continue to say that until the moment they announce the Blu-Rays.

I passed when this first came out. I love Star Wars, but this game didn't seem like it was worth $65. Maybe I'll be persuaded to pick it up used if I see it for $15 or so now.

One more reason for me to pick up The Ultimate Sith Edition

Funny enough, I got this game for christmas and I've never started it, knowing it would get a patch eventually. Hurray!

will sith edition have trophies ? i was thinking of getting this game cus of new features and missions, but now it has trophies its a positive. just wonderin bout ultimate sith edition, cus i wanna get tht insted of original.

Mine has been collecting dust ever since I picked it up for $15 on Gamefly and found the controls to be insufferable. The demo gave me false hope that Starkiller was powerful enough to compensate for poor controls. Then the full version release sees him gimped.

Maybe I'll return to it. Might be tough after playing InFamous, though...

the should add trophies to assassins creed, its the best game ever

Remember The Force Unleashed? It's getting Trophies

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