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Force Unleashed for PC: System requirements for the Star Wars game - is a 4000 Dollar PC necessary?

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The announcement that Star Wars: The force Unleashed wouldn't be published for the PC had made many games angry back in 2008. But the developers changed their minds and in November the Ultimate Sith Edition will be released. But what are the system requirements?
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Tehdaza - 64 days 18 hours ago
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24 GB? Holy hell
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Kalowest - 63 days 20 hours ago
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That's one Blu-ray disc, too bad BD drives are not catching on for the Pc.
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OpenGL - 63 days 19 hours ago
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@ Kalowest

While Blu-ray is great on the PS3, there is no real practical use for it on the PC as far as gaming goes. Reading from a Blu-ray is still very slow in comparison to a hard drive. Also, you can get a 1.5TB hard drive for $100 on newegg so space is not that much of an issue. Sure it would take awhile to install a couple of DVD9s, but it could be worse. Really though, 24GB for this game is pretty crazy considering it fit on a single 6.8GB Xbox 360 DVD. I also can't really imagine anyone has been waiting for this game to release on the PC.
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Chimerhazzard - 63 days 17 hours ago
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1.3 - OpenGL
I have :P
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jay2 - 63 days 20 hours ago
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Smash the Rec SPECS (will even more when I get the DR x 11 ATI 5000 series + Windows 7), so no worries,
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dirthurts - 63 days 20 hours ago
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3 - Maybe the 24 gb
Is including DLC from the future?
I dunno.
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StarScream4Ever - 63 days 20 hours ago
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4 - $4000 PC?
The specs doesn't fit with their statement that the game can only run on a $4000 PC. More like they can't scale down the game for the PC. 24 GB is ALOT. But for higher resolution than console it might be worth the price.
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LukaX23 - 63 days 20 hours ago
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Now that's what you call a crap gaming engine.
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jmd749 - 63 days 20 hours ago
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6 - WTF?????????????
24GB??? that is outragous. it better have the best textures i've ever seen and 1080p movies.
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kaveti6616 - 63 days 11 hours ago
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From what I've read on here, graphical quality doesn't affect the size of the game.
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Kal1138 - 63 days 19 hours ago
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A) You guys need to get over the 4000$ PC statement LucasArts made over a year ago about a PC version of the game. They didn't want to release it for the PC for some reason (piracy?) and they gave a stupid reason for not releasing it. So what?

B) Aspyr is porting the game and from what I've read, their ports aren't the best.
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Jamescagney - 63 days 18 hours ago
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It's a crap game, who cares?
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bozebo - 63 days 13 hours ago
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9 - what? 4000?
no way a system like that would cost 4000. Could part one up better than recommended for $723.95
Usually if a game runs badly on a $800 machine itl run badly on a $4000 machine.
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Tony P - 63 days 9 hours ago
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Hey hey. They never said you'd need a $4000 PC to run it.

They said it would be impossible for them to scale it so most machines, from low end to $4000 dream rigs, could get an enjoyable experience.

...Which was all apparently a lie since *tada* here it is. Or it could play like crap and they'll try to say "I told you so." Either way, I'm passing.

Call me when you go back to respecting your PC fans, LucasArts.
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ChrisW - 63 days 9 hours ago
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11 - $4,000?
No, more like a $600 PC. Custom built, that is.

The lowest end of the recommended (not minimum) graphics cards, the Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT, is only $100! A standard Asus motherboard ($150), Intel core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz ($100), 2Gigs of DDR2 RAM ($50), and any other necessary thing DVD drive, powersupply, and so on... (+/-$200).

As for his $4,000 number... The most expensive CPU is about $1,000 and the Nvidia 295 is about $500. Maybe this would bring you around $2500 in total with everything else (custom built).

But if you want to spend $4000 on a PC, yeah for you!

[EDIT] OH, also, he's probably including an LCD 1080p 32" 3D-ready monitor in it.
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