  Force Unleashed demo impressions  Daniel Weissenberger's
picture  Throwing people = fun.   First off, I was ecstatic to
see that the central gameplay mechanic was a complete rip-off of
Psi Ops’ telekinesis. I was a huge fan of Psi Ops when it came
out, and was saddened when middling sales and mediocre reviews
led to it not going on to revolutionize videogaming. Sure, we
would have all gotten sick of throwing giant objects around,
crushing all the puny humans in our path—actually, come to think
of it, we probably wouldn’t have. Why didn’t that game sell more
copies? How on earth was Destroy All Humans the only title
lining up to rip it off?  Well, now there’s a second* game out
there riding on Psi Ops’ coattails, and it delivers the ‘evil
god’ action just as fantastically well as its predecessors.
Force Unleashed's main character can toss any of the game’s
dozens of random metal crates around crushing Stormtroopers and
Rebel scum alike. He even one-ups Psi Ops’ main character in his
most cruel technique—whil