{"id":7501,"date":"2010-09-09T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"lucasarts-admits-to-previous-ps3-development-shortcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7501-lucasarts-admits-to-previous-ps3-development-shortcoming","title":{"rendered":"LucasArts admits to previous PS3 development shortcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox 360 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sits with a 73.88% average score on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/browse.html?search=force+unleashed&amp;numrev=3&amp;site=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gamerankings.com\">Game Rankings<\/a>, only slightly better than its PS3 counterpart, which currently has a 72.69% rating. The PS3 version was however notorious for its shoddy controls and numerous bugs.<\/p>\n<p>A LucasArts developer has admitted that the development team behind Star Wars: The Force Unleashed wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;up to speed&rdquo; with their PS3 development skills, which was probably fairly obvious to anyone who played the PS3 version.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=263778\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CVG\">CVG<\/a>, LucasArts producer Cameron Suey said: &ldquo;There were times, especially on the original Force Unleashed, where on the PS3, we weren&#8217;t quite up to speed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With The Force Unleashed II in the development pipeline, Suey said &ldquo;Now I think [the 360 and PS3 development processes] are so hand-in-hand that every change we make is tested on both at the same time, side-by-side throughout the whole thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is due for release in South Africa on 26 October 2010, for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t up to speed\u201d says The Force Unleashed II developer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}