Boba Fett’s “Force Unleashed”

Updated — Spoiler alert here. Accord­ing to The Sixth Axis, Boba Fett is not a playable character.

Boba Fett will be in The Force Unleashed II, which is avail­able on all game sys­tems this Octo­ber. The news was spe­cial for the San Diego Comic Con.

USA Today cov­ered the news and spoke with LucasArts’ Haden Black­man about the plot:

“Darth Vader is hir­ing Boba Fett for this top-secret mis­son. Boba Fett real­ized that Starkiller has quite a head start on him hav­ing escaped from (cloning plant planet) Kamino so he goes after what Starkiller is prob­a­bly after which is (love inter­est) Juno (Eclipse),” Black­man says. “It’s eas­ier for him to track down Juno than it is to track down Starkiller and use that to lure Starkiller back into Vader’s clutches.”

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“Boba Fett is one of those char­ac­ters that really res­onates with fans,” he says. “There is obvi­ously a lot of fan favorites and it’s a really, really rich uni­verse with tons and tons of char­ac­ters but Boba Fett is one of those char­ac­ters that fans just keep ask­ing for more of.”

Here is a excerpt of the game’s cutscene with Boba Fett and Darth Vader, pre­sented at this year’s Comic Con:

The game fol­lows Starkiller, a secret appren­tice to Darth Vader. The sto­ry­line takes place between Episode III and Episode IV.

Also see IGN for their coverage.

This is (at least) the 22nd video game that involves Boba Fett.