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Starkiller, born Galen Marek and also known as The Apprentice, is the Dark Jedi anti-hero protagonist of the ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed'' project. The character's likeness and voice are provided by Samuel Witwer. Raised by Darth Vader, he is made the secret apprentice under the name "Starkiller" due to being potent with using the Force for destructive purposes and described as less of an assassin and more of a "Force wrecking ball". The character's name is taken from Luke Skywalker's original name "Annikin Starkiller".〔 IGN called Starkiller's story "nice and complete". Game Informer, UGO Networks and GameDaily also gave good reviews. However, GamesRadar has criticized Starkiller's design. In GameSpot's vote for the greatest video game character of all time, Starkiller (as "The Apprentice") was eliminated in round 1 against Niko Bellic. ==Concept and creation== George Lucas motivated the team working on ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed'' to make a brand-new character. Before deciding on Starkiller's character, other ideas for the main character included a Han Solo-like smuggler, a superheroic Rebel Wookiee, "the last Skywalker" and a gadget-wielding mercenary.〔 The developers used feedback from focus test respondents and executives at LucasArts in order to make Starkiller.〔 The developers consciously decided not to give him a name in the game, but as the novel's author Sean Williams said he needed a name "Galen Marek" was given in the novel.〔 Starkiller was designed as Luke Skywalker's photo-negative,〔〔 and is named after "Annikin Starkiller" (Luke Skywalker's original name in the early ''Star Wars'' early scripts).〔〔 The developers tried to avoid making Starkiller too rigidly defined while keeping the character developed. The developers also wanted to avoid making Starkiller seem irredeemably evil, and used elements of his backstory and his relationships with other characters to balance it, while trying not to explain too much of his backstory. In order to avoid the character being over emotional, they tried to let short pieces of dialogue and looks carry scenes so that the player could interpret how Starkiller felt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=22 November 2010 )〕 They attempted to make Starkiller feel like he would belong in the classic ''Star Wars'' trilogy by making his actions faster and more intense.〔 During an interview to Haden Blackman by ''The Guardian'', he claimed that most of the testing players wanted the character to be ultimately redeemed by the end of the game. Starkiller was voiced by and given the likeness of Samuel Witwer. According to Blackman, the staff were very hard on Witwer when casting him, but claimed he was far above the other candidates and that "he was already inhabiting the mind of this character". Starkiller's expressions are based on Witwer's, which Blackman described as "a new approach for LucasArts", noting that it "affected the way we handled casting for ''The Force Unleashed''" and comparing it to how people see Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' movies.〔 Blackman noted that Witwer brought new ideas and a sense of humanity to Starkiller.〔 Sam Witwer has said that Starkiller would be a character he wouldn't mind revisiting.〔 During the concepting stages of ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II'', the developers considered replacing the character with either a new Force wielder or a previous named ''Star Wars'' character. However, they decided to keep Starkiller as the player character as they were fond of and were attached to him and felt that there was more story that he could supply and they could build a franchise around him.〔 〕 Blackman commented that after deciding how to have Starkiller return, he felt "it all made sense and fell into place".〔 Developers tried to make ''The Force Unleashed'' more personal to Starkiller,〔 with the game focusing on Starkiller's search for the truth of his identity.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Starkiller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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