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I just finished the Force Unleashed for Xbox 360.  Bottom line, a pretty good story that helps connect Episode 3 to Episode 4.  The game play was about a 6/10.  After all the delays, awesome trailers, and demos of the Euphoria and Digital Molecular Matter engines I was really expecting more from the game play.  I hoped for game play and controls as innovative as the Prince of Persia: Sand of Times on the original Xbox.  I recommend borrowing a copy from someone and playing.  It won’t take very long.  I beat it on intermediate difficulty first time through (I died alot) playing only casually for a few days.  My biggest issue with the game was that some of the “puzzles” you have to solve to move on in the game only have one solution and it is not obvious.  In fact, when you use the force to crash a star destroyer the on-screen control guide will just mess you up.  I finally figured out how to beat it using this post on InsideGamersLoop.com.

I’m going to read the graphic novel next and then the novel by Sean Williams.

Mandy and I got back from our biggest Star Wars toy run this year.  Today Hasbro did a major release for toys related to the new Clone Wars movie coming out next month.  We skipped the midnight release since the closest one was about 20 miles away.  We hit 2 Targets and a Toys R Us and got everything on our list, plus a couple of items we hadn’t planned. Below are some pictures from the trip.  The first Target was lacking in stock but it didn’t look like anyone had been there before us. The guys at the White Bridge Road Target in Nashville were having some fun stocking shelves when we showed up and so we took some pictures. Finally Toys R Us was very well stocked and I think we were the first ones there about 30 minutes after they opened this morning.