Focus group feedback said that while hunting down Jedi at Vader's order would be fun, they wanted the character to be redeemed in keeping with a major Star Wars motif.Дuring pre-production, about 30 people were on the project team. Lucas Licensing reviewed many game details to ensure they fit into Star Wars canon. Lucas spent hours discussing with the developers the relationship between Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, and he provided feedback on what Vader would want out of and how he would motivate an apprentice. LucasArts spent six months developing the story. In April 2005, after 'several months' of planning, the LucasArts team received Lucas' encouragement to create a game centered on Darth Vader's secret apprentice in the largely unexplored period between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 'trying to draw the two trilogies together'. Once the concept of creating a 'third-person action game with over-the-top Force powers' was solidified, the development team grew from ten to twenty people. Eventually, a one-minute previsualization video highlighting the idea of 'kicking someone's butt with the Force helped convince the designers that The Force Unleashed would be 'a great game' Star Wars creator George Lucas, upon seeing the one-minute video, told the designers to 'go make that game'. These illustrations inspired the creation of dozens of simple, three-dimensional animations. Production was greatly aided by the generation of a large amount of concept art, which was intended to visually bridge the two Star Wars trilogies, convey the impression of a 'lived-in' universe, show how the galaxy changes under Imperial rule, and to seem familiar yet an off-hand comment about the Force in the game being powerful enough 'to pull a Star Destroyer out of the sky' inspired an image by senior concept artist Amy Beth Christenson that became an important part of the developers' idea pitches and evolved into a major moment in the game. Consumer feedback helped the developers narrow in on seven concepts, and elements from those seven went into The Force Unleashed 's overall concept. Over 100 initial concepts were whittled down to 20 to 25 that included making the game the third entry in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, or to have the character play as a Wookiee 'superhero,' Darth Maul, a bounty hunter, a smuggler, a 'gadget-wielding mercenary', or 'the last Skywalker'.

This was the first visualization of the 'Force unleashed' concept. 1.4 Cinematic focus and cast performance.

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