Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a video game that bridges the narrative gap between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope, serving as the centerpiece of a multimedia project that explores the Force's scope and scale through a new protagonist.

The game casts players as Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice, a powerful Force user tasked with hunting down Jedi survivors of the Great Jedi Purge. The story follows Starkiller from his recruitment as a young boy named Galen Marek—after Vader discovers his Force sensitivity on Kashyyyk—through his training as a Sith apprentice and eventual mission to eliminate remaining Jedi across the galaxy.

The narrative features significant twists and emotional depth, including Vader's revelation that Starkiller was merely a tool to lure out the Empire's enemies, leading to a climactic confrontation on the Death Star where players choose between Light Side and Dark Side endings. The Light Side ending sees Starkiller sacrifice himself to allow the Rebel Alliance's founders to escape, while the Dark Side ending results in his transformation into a cyborg servant of the Emperor.