This was a major let-down. The whole game is excessively short, and while I can't fault the actual game play, almost everything else about it feels shoddy and forced: It's often not clear where you can go, the graphics are somewhat wonky, breakage has been simplified compared to SW:TFU1, there are rather few enemy types.
What's your opinion?
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This was a major let-down. The whole game is excessively short, and while I can't fault the actual game play, almost everything else about it feels shoddy and forced: It's often not clear where you can go, the graphics are somewhat wonky, breakage has been simplified compared to SW:TFU1, there are rather few enemy types.
What's your opinion?
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WAY too short and zero varietyDual Sabers <> Double Awesome.
I played and loved the first game. Innovative gameplay, great stroy, and imersion i've never seen before in a Star Wars game. I still play it from time to time.
I own (for the moment) the sequel. That was a mistake on my part. I thought all the review naysayers were the same guys who badmouthed the first game. But nope, gone are the interesting boss fights, gone is the interesting story that meant something in the universe. Gone is the interesting level design, and fun ways to kill storm troopers. Instead you have a game that is painfully short, has a story that is pants on head retarded, has like 4 kinds of enemies that are basically a game of rock paper scissors (use force lightning on these guys or you lose, use lightsabers on these guys or you lose, use repulse on these guys or you lose).
And the worse part, is you have to fight the rock scissor paper guys first or you run into trouble, and by the time you are done you have accidentally killed all the storm troopers, so no dangling them off cliffs or hurling them into things that explode.
The combo system was almost completely dropped so the whole thing is basically a button mash fest.
And then the length. THere isnt really a descent boss fight in the whole thing. Even when you fight vader its the most boring repetative crap i've ever played that gets dragged out for 20 times as long as it should have.
So basically all the things people liked about the first game werent there in the second, and all the things people didnt like about the first game were amplified up to around 11.
Yes. I played the first game. I played it to pieces, because I loved it. I like to think that I have some experience with games by now, allowing me to judge if a game is actually any good. The first installment had a great storyline, great variety, more impressive physics than the second, a deeper gameplay, and great bosses. Sadly, very little of this ended up in installment two.
It's a shameless money grab, dumping a game on the market about a year before the game is ready for it.
Oh well, I can tell you I am not buying the third episode without reading tons of reviews first. What goes around comes around, right?
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Force Unleashed needs to go the Dynasty Warriors Route, I think. Multiple characters to play, each one getting eight stages, some of which overlap, and multiple stories to tell. Personally I'd have loved to make my own character, even play Shaak-Ti, though she's dead now :(
It also needs more than just force lightning, which is pretty weak actually, as well as tightening up the force throw ability a little more, I missed a lot more often than anything else pitching boxes simply because it went anywhere but towards an enemy.
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Have to say I haven't played much of the game but the plot so far seems to amount to.......
Also anyone else think the prequels and these games make Luke Skywalker a bit of a laughing stock?
Also anyone else think the prequels and these games make Luke Skywalker a bit of a laughing stock?
Yeah, then again Luke learned all of his fighting skills from old men and used said skills to defeat his quadriplegic father. I love the Star Wars setting, but I've never thought of Luke as the ultimate bad ass by a long shot.
Shaak Ti or Aayla Secura would be pure win. SW is a bloody male chauvinist setting, and some more X-chromosomes would certainly improve it. But, yeah, they're dead.
Luke's role in SW is not as a badass elite warrior. He is what happens when you question the jedi rule of "too old to train as a jedi if older than four". He had a family, and united the jedi order (logic, serenity) with the sith principles of passion and freedom.
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Shaak Ti or Aayla Secura would be pure win. SW is a bloody male chauvinist setting, and some more X-chromosomes would certainly improve it. But, yeah, they're dead.
Luke's role in SW is not as a badass elite warrior. He is what happens when you question the jedi rule of "too old to train as a jedi if older than four". He had a family, and united the jedi order (logic, serenity) with the sith principles of passion and freedom.
Have to give him credit where it's due. Luke's Jedi are certainly more sane in theory and in practice(or at least should be).
An Aurra Sing is fine too, but not quite a Jedi there...
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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Matt's ideal 'After Episode III' game:
You're a Padawan, who's master is dead. You spend the game travelling to different worlds hunting out old/retired/hiding Jedi and learning additional skills from them doing seperate adventures. Big climax of the battle is to take on/take down an emperor's hand/Vader clone. When the fight is over epilogue/end scene is you riding into the sunset. Think Dragon Age style, but for Jedi.
Starting 'force skills' Lightsaber deflect, move object. As you advance you get the 'influence mind' trick and others from your 'mentors'. By the time you hit the BBEG, you're throwing TIE fighters around and stuff.
"Then I threw the senate at him. The whole Sentate!"
Matt's ideal 'After Episode III' game:
** spoiler omitted **"Then I threw the senate at him. The whole Sentate!"
Dark Side Ending:
gameplay wise I didn't find it to be that bad, and in fact quite enjoy popping on it for an hour to kill some stormies. My only gripe gameplay wise is the repetition of enemies.
The story itself sounds like it was a great story on paper... but they forgot to put half of it in the game. We've got a great beginning, and a solid ending, but there's nothing in between to make me care about it. I don't mind that questions don't get answered, there's obviously supposed to be a sequel (or was, given rumors) but I don't feel like there was a character arc, at all.