"When word got out that Sam Witwer and Nathalie Cox would be playing the lead roles in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, what followed was the usual round of questions regarding what it means to star in a video game. Over the years, LucasArts has used a variety of methods to bring actors into video games. The most common has been voice performance -- where it's the actor's voice that is captured and married to the animation of his or her digital character. In the mid-1990s, we dabbled in full motion video -- remember Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire and Jedi Knight? -- where actors, fully dressed in costume and makeup, shot their parts in front of bluescreen or greenscreen to become the characters in digital sets during the cutscenes of the games. This time, The Force Unleashed is taking a very different approach to its lead characters, one that benefits from LucasArts' unique relationship with Industrial Light & Magic."
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