Three weeks ago, I and the rest of the non E3-attending world got our first chance to play what might be this month’s most hotly anticipated game: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. 360 and PS3 users alike proclaimed the demo a huge success, as it allowed many of us to fulfill decades-long dreams of controlling the Force. Although my own personal childhood dream was to be a Jedi and not a Sith, I was willing to compromise, especially since it meant throwing TIE fighters at hordes of Stromtroopers.

The word out of LucasArts would appear to show that my love of controlling an energy field that surrounds us, binds us and penetrates us is shared by a record number of gamers. According to the release, the 360 demo was downloaded a million times in only eight days. The previous record holder, Too Human, took nine days to reach the same number. Further, LucasArts claims that when you total up the PSN and XBLA downloads, over 2.3 million consoles worldwide added the demo in the past three weeks.

It will be interesting to see if these numbers for a free demo translate into dollars spent on the game. I, for one, know that I will have this game on the September 16th release date. And, just to repeat myself, if you haven’t gotten this demo yet, not only should you do so immediately, apparently you’re also in the minority.

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