!!!Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Review!!!

Star Wars. It started mass debates, it created awesome ideas and wether you think it’s good or not, you can’t deny that it has made a massive impact on the world. The whole “I am your father” quote has made its way into every home on the planet (except for those people who live in caves, I don’t think it has reached the cave people yet). Just as there are many films, there are also many games that hold Star Wars in the title. I personally didn’t find many of them that good (not that I actually played many of them), I can remember enjoying Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars: Battlefront II but other than that nothing else interested me. But now, finally, I am here today to give you guys a review on one of the more modern Star Wars games: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Like father, like adopted son.

One thing that people are used to from the Star Wars films is the long ass text at the start of each film giving you a brief update of the plot. Well believe it or not but the intro to the game does that very thing. So if you’re not very familiar with the Star Wars story line, have no fear. Everything you need to know will be explained at the start of the game.

Yeah, we all know you have seen that before!

So the main storyline of the game is a very powerful baby that Darth Vader finds, he than trains you to become even more powerful and to prepare you to help him (Darth Vader) take over everyone, including the Emperor. For most of the game I completely forgot about that story. The only time anyone talked about taking over the Emperor and joining Darth Vader and what not happens in 5 second cutscene after you finish killing each Jedi. The storyline wasn’t told very well at all. It was just “Kill this guy”, spend 30 minutes finish the mission and killing someone, “Now we are closer to overthrowing the emperor”. That was the whole game right there.

The strong baby you play as.

Graphically this game wasn’t that impressive. Now to be fair it did come out in 2008 but even for a 2008 game it wasn’t that great. The cut scene's looked pretty nice, but then again they are cut scene's. Now I am not going to mark down this game because of its bad graphics for 2 reasons. 1, people who don’t play games due to bad graphics are rather stupid, it shouldn’t matter at all and 2, the levels you play are massive and the art design is fantastic. The art design it so perfect, it really makes you feel like you’re in the Star Wars universe! The costumes, the level design, the character models and everything else all makes you feel like you’re a part of the world. If the graphics were at the standard of say, Mass Effect 3 then visually this game would be amazing eye candy. 

I found 26 pics related to eye candy, this is the only one that didn't have a girl in it...

Gameplay wise this game is similar to the visuals. The gameplay is lots of fun and makes you feel like your from the Star Wars universe. The attacks you can do with your lightsaber, the force and other abilities make you feel like an unstoppable power house. Especially in the first mission where you play as Darth Vader and have pretty much every power unlocked, you feel like god. It is just so much fun choking people to death than throwing them at their friends. But unfortunately there are things that can stop you from having all this fun. The biggest one being the 3^rd person camera. You will find yourself constantly getting screwed over because the camera is just in such an awkward position. When you’re doing jump puzzles (and there is at least 2 of those in every mission) it is really hard to work out your distance from where you're standing to the next platform because the camera is just so hard to control. Another problem is using the force. When you use the force to control something it is pretty awesome, but that awesomeness goes away when you’re trying to aim a laser to kill all your enemies for you but it is just so hard to control that you can’t do anything. I’m trying to be as accurate as I can with things but it’s just so random with what happens, sometimes things will movie really fast, other times it will move really slowly. Sometimes it will move left, sometimes (even when I'm pushing the thumb stick in the exact same position) it will move right. It’s just so hard to use and can get very annoying. Along with unresponsive/laggy controls and constantly getting stuck on random objects, the gameplay will be a struggling love hate relationship.

Another person suffering from the love hate relationship...

So all together with the bad storytelling, crappy graphics and pretty shocking gameplay it’s hard to give this game a good score. Even with the gameplay making you feel like a god (which is always fun) and the art style being absolutely amazing, it’s still pretty difficult. I am going to give this game a 6.5/10. Now before you say “Michael, you just spent this paragraph saying it’s hard to give the game a good score. So why the Jebus would you give this game a 6/10?!?!?!” well, the problem is this game is Star Wars. I have always wanted a Star Wars game that just made me feel like a total bad ass Jedi. Whether you hate this game or love it, one thing that it definitely does is make you feel like a bad ass Jedi. That is why I have to give this game a 6/10. Not for the good graphics, not for good gameplay. But because it managed to make me feel like an all powerful Jedi killing adopted son of Darth Vader in the Star Wars universe. If you think I’m an idiot, well I don’t care to be honest. I had my fun, and even though it’s a 6/10 if you can rent the game I suggest you do! That first mission is one of the best things I have ever done.

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