The Force Unleashed 2 – not worth your galactic credits
If you’ve been waiting for a rock-solid Star Wars game to seek your teeth into, then you may have to keep on waiting. The Force Unleashed 2 tries to be as rock-solid as its first game, but falls way too short. If you think the force was with Lucas Arts on this one, you’re boldly mistaken. Really.
I love Star Wars. Always have. Even though the series and name has been dragged through the mud in recent years, the original trilogy and all things associated with it, still make me foam at the mouth in incredible awe. And The Force Unleashed 2 is once again, like the first game, a bridge between the prequel clusterfuck and the godly original trilogy.
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Without giving too much of the story away, you once again play as Star Killer, who died at the end of the first game. It’s your mission to determine whether or not you are a clone or the real deal. It sounds interesting on paper and considering Star Killer is a badass and a half, you know you have one fuck of an awesome character to work with, but it all seems lacking.
The story moves at a very fast pace, and in fact, it moves so fast, the game feels uber short. You can beat the game in just under six hours and because of this, the very idea of purchasing this game gets force pushed out the window and should be a rental only, unless you have plans for playing the game over and over and over.
At least with the first game, it was something new and innovative. This game feels like an expansion. There’s just not enough new content to make this hold its own against other games. And to be honest, it almost feels like half a game. Not to mention the actual story being told, from what I could tell, only stretches out to be one day as far as a narrative goes. This is just ugly. We’re talking ugly as in what would happen if Jabba and my 300-pound grade six vice principal decided to mate. The results would be like setting off a nuclear bomb in our minds, leaving us scarred for life and in the after-life, making it utterly impossible to enjoy heaven, and possibly causing hell to freeze over. That’s not cool.
Clearly the only person the force is with these days are poker players such as Jonathon Duhamel from Quebec, who just won over eight-million dollars by winning the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. And the force is not with whoever made this game. At all.
Combat is pretty much the same old. Having two light-sabers is a commodity that grows old very, very fast. Your force powers are pretty much the same as the last game with minor changes. And although it’s cool to dismember storm troopers with your sabers, it’s not enough to put this game into a level above the first game.
This could easily have been download-able content. I guess the only thing good about the game is the music. Like always, Star Wars music is unforgettable and sets the mood. Authentic sounds and themes are clearly identifiable, which is nice, but like always, we’ve grown to expect these things from Star Wars games. What this means is that although it’s done right, I can’t really praise the music that much. The formula is just too basic at this point.
Even the game’s title fails to live up to its name in this game. I never really felt the force was unleashed at all in this game. In the first game, you bring down a whole star destroyer using the force, but in this one, everything you do is just so cut and dry, there’s nothing to get too excited over. In my mind, this series needs an overhaul.
Although I will give the game credit in the graphics department when it comes to weather elements. The actual rain in this game is probably the best I’ve seen in a long time, so as far as bringing a place such as Kamino to life, they did a good job.
So, what are we left with? Pretty much nothing that amazing. Nothing to orgasm over. Nothing to run out to the store and purchase. Nothing to really even rent. Unless you’re the most hardcore of Star Wars fans and collect everything, why would you own this? Why play this? You can probably find the original for cheap now anyway, so why bother?
I had high expectations going in, but sadly, this game fails harder than The New Jersey Devils. This game is just so mediocre, it’ll drain your soul with its retarded, overused backgrounds, repetitive enemies and stages, and lack of fun.
Don’t support bad games. 4/10. I’d rather jump off a building and land in a minefield populated by zombies and Justin Bieber. Ugh.
May the force be with you.
