I always wonder why star wars games for the most part end up being crap, i mean some for sure are good, but for the most part they're either bad, or barely slightly above average. With some notable exceptions of course which i'll mention in a bit.
This game fails in so many different ways, there was so much potential in it, but somehow at each point in the game where you smell the potential, it somehow manages to not only disappear, but you basically forget it was even there. The developers here succeeded in ruining almost every possible piece of this game that could have been fun, and in many cases, i don't understand why. Let's go into the details...
There is some good, let's start with it first and get it out of the way...
GRAPHICS: Game has generally attractive graphics, may not up to par with some big dogs we have on the PS3, but it looks very well, specially lightsaber effects, as well as force effects. There are some levels though, that seem kind of messy, particularly the junk / jungle type of levels, personally i felt the ship type levels were the most visually attractive.
STORY: the story is kind of simple, but it works well, some voice acting could've been better, i particularly found the main character dull and boring, but overall, it gets the job done.
Now with the bad....brace yourselves....
GAMEPLAY: my my, where to begin? how i hate you, let me count the ways...There is just so many things wrong here, it's hard to focus on a single thing. For starters, you're supposed to be this huge powerful Sith, and the force powers you acquire are supposed to reflect that, but throughout the entire game you don't feel like one at all. Even the most simple of enemies, like the stormtroopers, can kick your ass, it just doesn't make sense at all with the power the game tries to establish. Every hack and slash game has it's share of low level and high level enemies, in the case of god of war for example, you have your share that give you trouble, and you have your share that you mop the floor with, but god of war manages to make you feel like the powerful being that you are.
Not here though, here you slash at a storm trooper 3 times, and he gets up, you STAB him with your saber, and he gets up.... i mean what the hell?, and it only gets worse as your force powers increase. Yes you have the amazing power to bring a star destroyer down with your bare hands, but a storm trooper with some silly shield can take every force power you can throw at him? lighting, force push, grip, nothing works on many these guys, it's like the game makes you a god, and then sets everything up so your power is useless, what the hell is the point of doing it then?
Every part of this game that could have been fun, ends up being ruined by extremely HORRIBLE design, everything ends up being just unbearably frustrating, not fun, the star destroyer example above is one example, one of the most horrible gaming experiences i have ever gone through. That particular piece could've been made GREAT, but it's just one of many things that end up getting screwed up, and you just don't wanna have to go through it ever again.
Another thing that SUCKS BIG TIME, is the fighting mechanics, often you'll find yourself dying, and it's not obvious at all how it happened, you're slashing here, slashing there, and all of a sudden, you see 90 percent of your life went away, no explosion, no nothing, you died, this happens VERY VERY often, particularly in jedi fights, where the mechanics are the most HORRIBLE.
This is one of the places where the wasted potential is more obvious, the fights don't make sense, you can't even clearly tell when your opponent is blocking or not, or if you're actually hitting him, if you're being effective at all. Jedi Knight series is very old and even the fights there were much better than the ones here. What happened here? this is where the game needs to thrive. Camera view also doesn't help here.
I could go on forever with the gameplay shortcomings of this game, but let me move on to even another area where this games "SHINES". And it's BUGS, this game has MANY MANY BUGS. They range from frustrating clipping problems, all of the sudden you can't move and nothing is on your way, sometimes you get frozen in mid air while you jump, there are platforms you're supposed to be able to climb onto, but when you try, you keep slipping off OVER AND OVER, makes you think like you really can't get on there, but you CAN, 15 attempts later you do get on, it's just STUPID. Also when you pause and then unpause, there's a small delay many times of 1-2 seconds for some reason, before you can actually move, unfortunately though, enemies CAN move while you're frozen like a bitch, so many times they'll end you in those 2 seconds. Bosses (Vader for example) sometimes freeze, and you need to die in order to start over again. Also, i've died one or two times because when a real time video occurs, of enemies coming into play, sometimes they fire at me before the video is actually over....so when it is you're already less than half health...
Did they bother hiring testers for this?
I could say much more but the above probably covers enough. Thankfully the pain only cost 8 dollars for me, but feel sorry for those who bought at full price. Hopefully the sequel will improve this a lot, much like Assassins Creed 2 was a huge improvement of the first one, we shall find out soon enough.Get more detail about Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
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