The reviews are in and it would appear that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is a bit of a flop. Neither Kotaku nor IGN, both of which normally have huge hard-ons for Star Wars games, had much of anything good to say about the game – and Joystiq simply took a giant dump on the game.
It’s unfortunate, really. I was looking forward to this one quite a bit.
I’d suggest having a hands-on with the game, no use using reviews to find your own taste. Websites are primarily for news only, reviews are always subjective and nothing beats a hands-on with a game.
Try renting it.
I bought this game yesterday, super pumped to play. Ended up beating it about four and half hours later.
I understand you just said you need to get a hands on to really determine yourself, so take this with a grain of salt, but I ended really hating this game.
The enemies were repetitive and frustrating, the level designs seemed to mimic themselves and were dull and the bossfights are few and far between. The big Gorog fight is plagued by invisible walls and quirky collision detection. You spend all your time in spaceships or cities, nothing interesting like a forest or a junk planet like the first.
The quicktime events just looked lame this time and the story fails to answer any of the questions that it raises throughout the course of the story, which actually ends in less than 6 hours even if you take a 15 minute break every hour.
My advice would be to rent this game, you get nothing out of playing through a second time.
Thanks for the feedback Axiom
I wonder if the publisher (I’m guessing Lucasarts) will force websites to remove their reviews?
Is anyone surprised by this? I thought the first game was total crap. So much so that I never actually finished it.
Granted, I was told my Pinky that I should have played it on a console, but that shouldn’t matter. If it is released for PC, it should play on PC.
@Blank I don’t see how they could. Unless they threaten to not give them early access to releases. And even then, any publisher worth their salt would say, “Fine, we’ll just wait to review your games.”
Invites to special events dry up, the goodie packs of exclusive merch stop coming, and advance copies show up late, after other reviews have already been written.
@Blank they cant do that. All they can do is douchie stuff like favor magazines/websites that give you favorable ratings.
Adam Sessler just ranted about it last week.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/708128/Sesslers-Soapbox-Let-Us-Review-Your-Games.html