Everything good in this game already existed before, everything bad is NEW!!!
Once upon a time there was Jedi Academy...
I'm not telling these two games were the best ever, but they had a very good lightsaber fighting system with REALLY COOL flourish saber combos (the only thing I didn't liked was the impossibility of blocking, the auto-blocking system was annoying), COOL missions were you have to do a lot of things and not only bash and slash, all the force powers that are included in Force Unleashed and even many others WERE ALREADY THERE, etc.
Without this games, Force Unleashed wouldn't exist today, but the question is: Is Force Unleashed better than these two? And the answer is NO, Force Unleashed is crap in comparison. By the way, in this games when you cut your enemies, they actually were cut, which was great effect, not like in the present one.
For a game that comes so many years after the mentioned ones, I would expect so much more, yeah, the graphics are better, and certain effects also, but it is also after more than three generations of technology.
The only thing I really liked better from FU, than JO or JA, is the story, JO and JA had quite a bad, even stupid story, with everything mix.
My point is, take JO and JA general ideas, get the last generation graphics and effects but make it unpolished, make just a plain and dull bash and slash, and you get FU, its somehow going backward in game concept, not forward.
I didn't feel like a Jedi, I felt just like playing a game
Here are the main issues by which I wouldn't recommend this game:
1 Worst targeting system ever
2 Very bad camera, even the fix camera sucked
3 I'm getting boring of every game putting God's of War sequences, come on guys, it was a good idea once, not every time
4 Plain leveling bash and slash, I would have expected more adventure
5 There is no lightsaber fighting, honestly, just X,X,X,X,X the Force Powers might b good, but lightsaber fighting is the worst
6 Can get dull to play this game, this may sounds weird but is like having an overpowered Jedi, and from time to time, certain overpowered enemies to make balance. You hardly feel being a Jedi
7 Something that really annoyed me, many enemies in the game had powers equivalent to a Jedi, without being a Jedi, so What's the point of being a Jedi then? I meant like throwing objects and so...
8 And so on
I liked the story, and the control is somehow good. Some timing felt weird
And yeah, I finished the game just to be fair about complaining of how bad it is
Nevertheless, I guess certain people who like plain Bash and Slash may like this game, just for rental I suggest, you can finish it in two days and I see no reason why anyone would want to win it more than once.