The latest game Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 has a fabulous looking. The graphics and the animations are great. But what we are looking for is more than just good graphics. The game experience is too weak. The story telling of the game is not enough. It makes the game a task of repetition of combats. No matter how beautiful it is, if there is no engaging story behind to give it meanings, it will not be very entertaining for a long time.
The Star Wars The Force Unleashed 1 had great success because of its story. It is well written and fills an important gap in the Star Wars Series story. It feels natural and attractive. But this time, the storyline is a bit too artificial, giving the players an impression that the events developed this way only to allow the company to make another game. This artificialness kills the experience. It becomes not as engaging as before.
The game focuses a lot on the combats. It gives the character crazy abilities which makes the enemies as weak as ants. But after not too long, you will find it particularly boring to fight the enemies because there is nothing else than fighting. I have tried every way possible to kill the troopers. I dismembered them, made them commit suicides, Force push them off a ledge, you name it. But still these do not entertain you for very long.
Variety is something LucasArts attempted to address in combat, and the developers accomplish this to an extent, but it doesn't go deep enough. The first Force Unleashed had a ton of enemies who were varied in appearance, but not in how they fought, and LucasArts sought to address this by having fewer, more differentiated enemy types. Unfortunately, though, this too is underdeveloped, with combat mostly boiling down to realizing "enemy X can be killed only with lightsabers, while enemy Y can only be killed with the Force." They combine these enemies in ways that occasionally present a challenge, but eventually they repeat this formula over and over again that it becomes more tedious than new and exciting.
The game is too short. I took 6 hours to finish the normal mode. Even though the game is so short, it still feels that the same things happened and repeated for too long. I think if it is not fun, it better end sooner. Why suffer boredom for the sake of finishing a game? Unless you are a game reviewer like me, I suggest you to uninstall the game as soon as you feel there is no point to continue.
Overall, the game is good looking. The world it presents is very beautiful but there is nothing else that makes the experience worthwhile.
The Star Wars The Force Unleashed 1 had great success because of its story. It is well written and fills an important gap in the Star Wars Series story. It feels natural and attractive. But this time, the storyline is a bit too artificial, giving the players an impression that the events developed this way only to allow the company to make another game. This artificialness kills the experience. It becomes not as engaging as before.
The game focuses a lot on the combats. It gives the character crazy abilities which makes the enemies as weak as ants. But after not too long, you will find it particularly boring to fight the enemies because there is nothing else than fighting. I have tried every way possible to kill the troopers. I dismembered them, made them commit suicides, Force push them off a ledge, you name it. But still these do not entertain you for very long.
Variety is something LucasArts attempted to address in combat, and the developers accomplish this to an extent, but it doesn't go deep enough. The first Force Unleashed had a ton of enemies who were varied in appearance, but not in how they fought, and LucasArts sought to address this by having fewer, more differentiated enemy types. Unfortunately, though, this too is underdeveloped, with combat mostly boiling down to realizing "enemy X can be killed only with lightsabers, while enemy Y can only be killed with the Force." They combine these enemies in ways that occasionally present a challenge, but eventually they repeat this formula over and over again that it becomes more tedious than new and exciting.
The game is too short. I took 6 hours to finish the normal mode. Even though the game is so short, it still feels that the same things happened and repeated for too long. I think if it is not fun, it better end sooner. Why suffer boredom for the sake of finishing a game? Unless you are a game reviewer like me, I suggest you to uninstall the game as soon as you feel there is no point to continue.
Overall, the game is good looking. The world it presents is very beautiful but there is nothing else that makes the experience worthwhile.
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