Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed
It’s the Star Wars® event of the year! The Force Unleashed, LucasArts’ eagerly awaited multimedia project, will have fans roaring with excitement over the cutting-edge video game, action figures, comic book and more. Now you can get a jump on the action with this thrilling novelization by Sean Williams! Set in the dark times between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, this stand-alone novel delves deeper into Darth Vader’s history, revealing the origins of his secret apprentice and his ultimate plans for him.
The apprentice is a young man with no name, raised from childhood by Vader himself, his prowess forged by punishing and unpredictable exercises. Now his training is nearly complete, and he is ready for the final test: he must hunt down and destroy the last of Vader’s traditional enemies—the Jedi. Accompanied by Imperial pilot Juno Eclipse and the droid PROXY, the apprentice has no trouble obeying his Master’s commands—until he has a fateful epiphany that will change everything he knows about who he is…and what he is meant to accomplish.
Shedding new light on events in the Star Wars universe, this exciting novel will rev you up for the action-packed game!
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine/Del Rey Books ( March 18, 2008 )
Item #: 23-2206
ISBN: 9780345499028
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.0 inches
Product Weight: 13.0 ounces
Good transfer of a game to a book
January 19, 2009
The character development was very bad in this book, unlike Shadows of the Empire, but still, it was an intersting read. What would now be interesting is a prequel novel - Darth Vader's apprentice Galen Marek meeting Anakin Skywalker's Apprentice Ahsoka Tano.
Reviewer: Mark M
If you're a Star Wars fan, read this book!!!!!!!!
November 26, 2008
If you like a good book that twists you in two different directions, this is the book for you. I would've never predicted this ending, so if you want to find out what happens, READ IT!!!!
Reviewer: Patrick R
Garbage
November 05, 2008
This book is terrible. The first third is so bad only a feat of will got me through it. It's extremely poorly written and an obvious rush job. It's as if Lucasarts decided they wanted to do a multimedia event alongside this game a few weeks before release and sent the author a copy of the game with a note teling him to write what he sees. I'm not kidding, save your money.
Reviewer: Stuart C
Well......
September 22, 2008
As a fan of Star Wars since it came out in the theaters, I have enjoyed reading the adventures both within the movie timeline (screenplay adaptations) and without (everything else). The last multimedia tie-in ("Shadows of the Empire") was a full-on novel and filled in some gaps. This novel attempts to show the reader a glimpse of the time shortly before Episode 4. This time the tie-in was more of a here's-your-mission-now-go-defeat-the-boss feel instead of plotline. While entertaining on a rainy Saturday I was left feeling a little hollow and wanting afterwards.
Reviewer: John G
Simply Amazing
September 16, 2008
This novel was incredible who would've thought that Vader would openly betray his apprentice, man I didn't even see that coming. But the novel was excellent and I'm so siked to play the game which I'll have sometime this week.
I hope that there are more novels that'll explore the timeline in between episodes 3 & 4, cause i have a feeling that there's still more stories that need to be told.
Reviewer: Chris E
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