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Some leaked "pre-viz" footage of a new Star Wars game has popped up on YouTube.

It's "pre-viz", so it's completely useless. Not one bit of any final game that comes out of this is going to look anything like this. But it's still very pretty, for two reasons:

1) It looks like it's using that new animation tech Lucasarts was showing off at E3. Throwing bodies around in mid-air looks sickeningly realistic.

2) We all seem to have an amazing capacity to forgive Lucasarts for every crap Star Wars game they release by getting excited about the next one. I see no need to bring a stop to this tradition.

Microsoft said in March that a Darth Vader game would be turning up sooner or later on the 360 and PS3. There's no sign of Vader in this vid, but it's safe to assume this is the tech we'll be seeing in that game, whenever it materialises.

You can watch the video over at Kotaku.