The Force Unleashed 2 Review
The Forced Unleashed 2 Review
With the first game holding so much promise and possibly unlimited potential towards a unknown part of history to the Star Wars history and the new characters that came with it, it’s horrible failure was a true shock, can the new sequel shed life back into the force.
With the last game ending off with two different endings it was announced that the option where Darth Vader doesn’t die was the true cannon storyline (surprise, surprise) with this we start this game with Starkiller being awakened to his old/new master where he is told that he will be the perfect true StarKiller clone and where the original failed he will in fact be his true apprentice. Of course that doesn’t go the way that it was intended, apparently you rather die than attack a robot cloaked to look like your girlfriend from the first fame, so with this lose you are sent to be disposed of. Well that doesn’t fly with you so off you go to destroying all in your way in order to seek not only freedom but the truth. That’s about as far as the story goes to staying interesting after that it goes around in circles and truthfully by the games end you’d have forgotten everything about it.
Well, where can I start with this game? I previously stated that the first game was greatly disappointing, but I can easily say that this game is even worse. With the first game it seemed like you could do anything and everything by using the force to its fullest potential and it made you think of what else could they do with it, well I this game you get no new powers and abilities, it’s the exact same force powers from the last title but now they fell even more restricted, more held back, and they way you remember how to do these abilities is to actually through a quick memory flashback remember how to use them. Combat is just as bad. There are only a few enemies throughout the whole game and either they have a simple attack pattern and weakness or they have a needlessly long action sequence that after seeing it once you never want to again.
Well something good I can say about the game is that it looks good. The visuals are nice and there’s rarely any problems with the game itself except for the odd time where it will freeze and you’ll be forced to reset everything. This has happened to me twice so watch out for it. While I did say overall the games look hits the right notes at the end it doesn’t really matter too much when there are only 5 level and when two of them are the same place and one of them is just practically 2 cut scenes and a linear walkway you could barely say there is in fact only 3.5 places you go to. Because of this the game itself is only about 5 hours and frankly saying because there is a different ending depending on if you choose the good or evil ending doesn’t qualify this game to be any longer.
With the first game I had incredibly high hopes and they smashed before the first level was finished, with the sequel I went into it with hopes that it could be better but even with no expectations this game has not only failed me once again but those who were actually waiting for this to come out.
I give this game a 2.5/10
