Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an action-adventure game set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and casts players as "Starkiller" the secret apprentice of Darth Vader. Starkiller's journey across the galaxy to destroy threats to the Empire takes him to a number of locales from the movies and expanded universe. Starkiller hunts down surviving Jedi, and along the way uncovers the origins of the Rebel Alliance as it is seen in the first Star Wars film, A New Hope.