Not many people know but before Cloud City was known as a sun-bleached beige beacon up among the cloud, it was a mining facility far from its clean and pristine appearance we all know in the movies.

The images show some of the damage sustained trying to defend the full force of empire as it descends on the Wookie home planet.Ībove: Kashyyyk - Under Attack Concept Design.Ībove: Cloud City Under Construction Concept Design. We start of by playing Darth Vader as he tracks a young padawan force-using child which he later decides to train as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, Starkiller. Sadly this was later scapped but this concept shows an arena battle idea we explored during production.Ībove: Tie Fighter Construction Facility - Bowels Concept Design.Ībove: Tie Fighter Construction Facility - Wings Manufacturing Concept Design.Ībove: Tie Fighter Construction Facility - Control Room Concept Design.Ībove: The Wookie planet Kashyyyk was the very first level in the game. Destructible environments and physics in games is a cornerstone of modern gaming however on the PS2 and Wii this was unheard of and along with God of War we were in many ways trend setters in this area.Ībove: An abandoned concept design depicting a level idea the team was most excited about where you literally jump out of a space station and using the Force jump between spaceships and descend to the planets surface, like Anakin did in the Star Wars movies. We had set out to explore how using the Force could cause damage to environments. This level was later to be called the Tie Construction Facility (where tie fighters were manufactured). What a gangsta.Ībove: Production artwork created for one of the first levels produced for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I guess nothing is worth rushing to Vader.

So much that we even had a level in the game where you could not only not jump, but also not run. We were to spend a week making a pitch demo for Lucas Arts and to cut a long story short the rest, as they say, is history.Ībove: Many years after working on the project I would finish off a sketch I started while joking with Krome Studios’ Art Director Steve Stamatiadis and fellow concept designers Mark and Rich, that Vader never jumps or lifts his arms… ever. Sometimes lighting hits twice, and that’s just how I felt after I had just been asked to move teams while working at Krome Studios off of the Hellboy team (a personal dream project) to a new top-secret project at the time, which would later be known as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

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