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Vanity Fair Previews Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

By Alex Petraglia on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM EST  

Vanity Fair is running a feature in this month’s issue covering LucasArts upcoming Star Wars title, The Force Unleashed. If you’re not a regular subscriber, the piece can be read online, as well.

The author, Frank DiGiacomo, writes:

The player’s suspension of disbelief is also tested in the way the door itself gives way when the villain flies through it. Instead of splintering in a way that resembles actual breaking wood, the door will typically come apart like separated pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

But these barriers to a much more realistic gaming experience, and, perhaps, a greater public interest in the medium, are about to fall, as I learn during an eye-opening two-day visit to Lucas’s Presidio campus. To observe the men and women of LucasArts in action—aside from noting their propensity to wear their security badges on bright yellow lanyards—is to realize that the process of making a video game is really the fulfillment of French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes’s dream of putting “the world into equation,” in the words of LucasArts lead software engineer Cedrick Collomb.

It’s satisfying to see a mainstream publication covering videogames in such a positive way and the article takes a forward-looking approach to describing both the game and the industry at large.

Plus, anyone who can write a videogame preview and include at least one mention of Descartes is a-okay in my book.

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