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.
Good graphics and special effects used to be enough to make a game popular, but not anymore. Serious gamers now look for good story telling games which allow them to experience an surreal adventure rather than pointless key pressings. I would say that the Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 is quite weak in doing so. The story is not well constructed enough and a bit too boring, even to fans of Star Wars. I like the last episode better personally.
The Force Unleashed's combat is fun at the start, but begins to feel very uninspired as the hours go by. I mean, look, the inclusion of dismemberment is awesome, and the first few times you blast some Stormtroopers off a ledge with Force push, or send a trooper to his doom by convincing him to kill himself with Jedi Mind Trick are exactly what I'm looking for in this sort of game. It's just that there isn't enough outside of the combat to break up the pacing. Starkiller is always just mashing into wave after wave of soldiers, and it gets surprisingly mundane kicking so much ass all the time.
The enemy types are too few. With the simple combat and story, if the game had more different types of enemy to fight than it might buy back some points. But there are simply not enough. One thing worth noting is that some enemy can only killed with the lightsaber and some must be killed with the Force. The game designers tried to make the combat more interesting by mixing these enemies together. But instead of interesting, it makes it annoying.
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.
Good graphics and special effects used to be enough to make a game popular, but not anymore. Serious gamers now look for good story telling games which allow them to experience an surreal adventure rather than pointless key pressings. I would say that the Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 is quite weak in doing so. The story is not well constructed enough and a bit too boring, even to fans of Star Wars. I like the last episode better personally.
The Force Unleashed's combat is fun at the start, but begins to feel very uninspired as the hours go by. I mean, look, the inclusion of dismemberment is awesome, and the first few times you blast some Stormtroopers off a ledge with Force push, or send a trooper to his doom by convincing him to kill himself with Jedi Mind Trick are exactly what I'm looking for in this sort of game. It's just that there isn't enough outside of the combat to break up the pacing. Starkiller is always just mashing into wave after wave of soldiers, and it gets surprisingly mundane kicking so much ass all the time.
The enemy types are too few. With the simple combat and story, if the game had more different types of enemy to fight than it might buy back some points. But there are simply not enough. One thing worth noting is that some enemy can only killed with the lightsaber and some must be killed with the Force. The game designers tried to make the combat more interesting by mixing these enemies together. But instead of interesting, it makes it annoying.
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.
