Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate £9.99

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Posted on : 16-04-2010 | By : SDG_CMC | In : bargains

Starwars Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition on Steam

"luke, I've had your father"

Only £9.99 on steam

About the Game

The story and action of Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ expands with the release of Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition, a special new version of the game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself. The Ultimate Sith Edition includes all of the original missions found in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as content previously only available via download and an all-new exclusive bonus level.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force and casts players as Darth Vader’s “Secret Apprentice,” unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy seen through the eyes of a mysterious new character armed with unprecedented powers.

  • Includes the original Star Wars The Force Unleashed game plus 3 re-imagined Classic Trilogy levels: Tatooine, Jedi Temple and ALL-NEW-Hoth level
  • UNLEASH EPIC FORCE POWERS and devastating combos
  • DISCOVER THE UNTOLD STORY of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice set between Episodes III and IV
  • LIFE-LIKE REACTIONS from characters and environments that are different every time you play

System Requirements

    • OS: Win XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 5200+
    • Memory: 2 GB
    • Graphics: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 2.0 support (Radeon HD 2900 or Geforce 8600)
    • DirectX®: Directx 9.0c compatible
    • Hard Drive: 30GB
    • Sound: Directx 9.0c compatible
    • Controller Support: XBox 360 Controller for Windows
    • Supported ATI Chipsets: ATI Radeon HD 2600, 2900, 3650, 3690, 3850, 3870, 4550, 4650, 4770, 4850, 4870, 5890
    • Supported NVIDIA Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 8600, 8800, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800, 250, 260, 275, 280, 285, 295

    • Minimum:

    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 6000+
    • Graphics: 512 MB 3D Hardware Accelerator Card (GeForce 9800 GT)

    • Recommended:

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Upscaling Day Of The Tentacle with Scummvm

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Posted on : 29-03-2010 | By : SDG_CMC | In : articles

Following a pleasant reminder of what a great point & click Day Of The Tentacle is/was, I thought I’d look at the different options for up-scaling the Lucas Arts classic.   The filters available are:

  • 2X
  • TV2x
  • AdvMAME2x
  • 2xSAI
  • Super2xSAI
  • SuperEagle
  • HQ2x
  • DotMatrix
  • 3X scalers
  • 3X
  • AdvMAME3x
  • HQ3x

I couldn’t actually figure out how to activate all them, by pressing ctrl-alt-(and then a number between 1-9) you can select a different filter while playing.

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After some real soul-searching, and deep contemplation – I decided that for me AdvMame 3x was the best filter as it would actually upscale to a higher resolution than the others (which tended to stay at 640×480), to 960×720.

However, taking a screenshot of the output is tough because I’m still running a desktop resolution of 1920×1080 so my monitor must be doing some upscaling on the 960×720 – so here’s a photographic comparison of both at 22″:

dott native - no upscaling

day of the tentacle native - no upscaling

day of the tentacle upscaled with advmame3x

day of the tentacle upscaled with advmame3x

There you have it, conclusive evidence you can bring Day Of The Tentacle into the new generation of high-def, next-gen, Web2.0 gamers with minimum effort.   And that people are willing to write blog entries about literally anything, if bored enough.

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