Well theres alot of good but not enough of it and that makes the bad really bad. The game was kind of meh to me. Good for a quick play through but when you start really testing the game and trying to do more things you notice the flaws. Targeting is horrible; well maybe just bad, as you wont notice if you just run through and kill everything on the fly. Once you try more advanced tricks with force grip and using the enviroment it becomes a serious flaw. The story while being cannon is worth knowing, but not really that good. Though I didn't hate the ending it was obvious considering this is cannon you already know how it ends if you think about it for a minute, no huge twists really. The choices or not choices it's A choice which was kind of lame. Seems like it was just written in to sell the game more. Most of the charectors seem unintersting or hollow. The levels reminded me of a suped up episode 3 game, well maybe not that bad. But its still not a good thing. Its like "okay thats cool wait thats it? lame!" Having more enemies and a better sabercombo system would be nice. Most of the time the combos dont do much, once you get your timeing right you'll be comboing dead bodies more than defeating them. It would of gone a long way to throw more enimes at you and let you sabercombo multible enemies instead of one at a time. BTW I hate the constant button sequence actions, once in awhile for a big boss would be fine but after awhile it gets old. Some puzzles or well puzzling as your force grip doesnt target very well. You'll know what to do but walk around to find the sweet spot that well let you grap what your meant to or want to. Griping Tie fighters out of the sky drove me nuts. The graphics are good but a few spots near the end during the cut scences needed a little work. No big deal but with no multiplayer, short play time, tact on RPG elements that doesnt really do much, not getting FMV perfect just seemed lazy. If this was a $19.00 game or Xbox live arcade wow great game. Unfortuantly $60.00 brings a higher standard that Force unleashed doesnt meet at all. Rent for a weekend or maybe a week if you have other things to do; Or if you find it for 19 bucks somewere then have at it. If you like throwing your money away or are just a HUGE star wars or action fan MAYBE buy MAYBE. I like star wars so I probaly gave it a higher rating then it deserved. With all that said I did want to like the game and kind of did. Which says they were on the right track, too bad they didnt finish. This is a pattern now a days but this one was a glaring example of it. It was well polished but the fundementals and length just was not there.
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