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| VOTING COMING DECEMBER 2008 |
The Short Story:
You are Vader's secret apprentice, raised from a child to possibly be the most powerful sith
ever. No spoilers here, but the story is this game's strongest point.
The Score:
I am giving this a BusyGamer rating of a 3. Making it an average bang for your buck. This
games downfall (as sighted later) has dragged this down from being a top dog of your
collection. Remember we are talking about time investment here, not so much how this
game is overall.
Body of review:
Very sadly, this game has too many shortcomings that ultimately bring it toppling down from
all that its great genre has inspired. Die hard fans will buy this game, I bought it. I will keep it,
and possibly replay it in the future. Lucasarts seems to have yet again screwed the pooch on
developing a Star Wars game that can bring a long time of enjoyment to all gamers around.
It hurts me to spit back out some thing with great storytelling and an environment that I could
literally immerse myself in till doomsday.
The good. There is a lot of good stuff in this game, don't get me wrong. The world is alive in
Force Unleashed. The scenery is spectacular, the backgrounds, response to your force
abilities puts this game at the very top rung of the ladder as far as how the game looks and
feels. The costumes are extremely detailed, as are the lightsabers which immediately
appealed to me. The first 2 hours of gameplay I was jumping out of my seat, oooing and
ahhing at how cool things looked and how I liked punting jawas 50 yards back.
I really think that the developers spent too much time on the reaction of the levels and the
details of the worlds then the actual gameplay itself. Not a big suprise for these titles. And it
really bums me out, I thought they may get this one right.
There are bugs within the first 5 levels that were hard to overlook. I would unlock costumes
and find them relocked on the next levels making the achievement unfulfilling. I was awarded
new lightsaber crystals after beating a boss and when checking the menus they were non
existant. These two things frustrated me and made me cringe as I felt like I really gained
nothing. How did these things get past beta testing? This has been a long awaited title too. I
didnt see much power increases as I levelled because the enemies seem to also scale
equally. Im not the memorize a '6 button combo move' kinda person, as these were barely
more effective than just hitting X (normal slash) repeatedly, so I would accumulate levelling
points that would go unnoticed and unused in the combo upgrade section of my character.
You are Vader's secret apprentice, raised from a child to possibly be the most powerful sith
ever. No spoilers here, but the story is this game's strongest point.
The Score:
I am giving this a BusyGamer rating of a 3. Making it an average bang for your buck. This
games downfall (as sighted later) has dragged this down from being a top dog of your
collection. Remember we are talking about time investment here, not so much how this
game is overall.
Body of review:
Very sadly, this game has too many shortcomings that ultimately bring it toppling down from
all that its great genre has inspired. Die hard fans will buy this game, I bought it. I will keep it,
and possibly replay it in the future. Lucasarts seems to have yet again screwed the pooch on
developing a Star Wars game that can bring a long time of enjoyment to all gamers around.
It hurts me to spit back out some thing with great storytelling and an environment that I could
literally immerse myself in till doomsday.
The good. There is a lot of good stuff in this game, don't get me wrong. The world is alive in
Force Unleashed. The scenery is spectacular, the backgrounds, response to your force
abilities puts this game at the very top rung of the ladder as far as how the game looks and
feels. The costumes are extremely detailed, as are the lightsabers which immediately
appealed to me. The first 2 hours of gameplay I was jumping out of my seat, oooing and
ahhing at how cool things looked and how I liked punting jawas 50 yards back.
I really think that the developers spent too much time on the reaction of the levels and the
details of the worlds then the actual gameplay itself. Not a big suprise for these titles. And it
really bums me out, I thought they may get this one right.
There are bugs within the first 5 levels that were hard to overlook. I would unlock costumes
and find them relocked on the next levels making the achievement unfulfilling. I was awarded
new lightsaber crystals after beating a boss and when checking the menus they were non
existant. These two things frustrated me and made me cringe as I felt like I really gained
nothing. How did these things get past beta testing? This has been a long awaited title too. I
didnt see much power increases as I levelled because the enemies seem to also scale
equally. Im not the memorize a '6 button combo move' kinda person, as these were barely
more effective than just hitting X (normal slash) repeatedly, so I would accumulate levelling
points that would go unnoticed and unused in the combo upgrade section of my character.
By Crutchboy
First Glance:
Ok, it's a Star Wars title, with like 2 years in the
making, has the potential to be a really big hit
- dazzling effects and a great demo to try out,
sounds like a winner to die hard fans.
First Glance:
Ok, it's a Star Wars title, with like 2 years in the
making, has the potential to be a really big hit
- dazzling effects and a great demo to try out,
sounds like a winner to die hard fans.
Star Wars : Force Unleashed
Enough bang for your buck?
Enough bang for your buck?