In some uber-awesome news, LucasArts announced that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be coming to the Wii in Spring 2008 *does little happy dance*!

Finally a chance to use the Wiimote for the purpose it was created… a Lightsaber! Seriously over the moon about this, assuming they get the controls working well, it’s gonna be awesome!

LucasArts today revealed that Star Wars™: The Force Unleashed™ will come to the Wii™ home videogame system from Nintendo next spring, offering owners the unique chance to live out their Jedi fantasies by wielding the Wii Remote™ as a lightsaber while using the Nunchuk™ controller to torment foes with their Force™ powers.

Full Press Release Here

Below is a great video someone made a while back using The Force Unleashed™ trailer showing how this could all work. I SO want this game!