Just finished it. Totally bummed about it. Some parts of the game are just fantastic and radical, but then everything else about it sucks so bad that it's easy to forget that.

Imagine how this would have turned out had they put in one more year of development time. It could have been amazing, best Star Wars game ever. Instead we get this mess.

So sad. :(

Yeah. All in all it really kind of sucked. A lot of potential, though. Still, I don't think it could have ever dethroned the masterpiece of Knights of the Old Republic.

The multiplayer of Jedi Knights 2 was probably the best SW experience I've had.
 
Never actually played Force Unleashed I'll assume it's not worth it?

" The multiplayer of Jedi Knights 2 was probably the best SW experience I've had.  Never actually played Force Unleashed I'll assume it's not worth it? "

" @Ineedaname said:

" The multiplayer of Jedi Knights 2 was probably the best SW experience I've had.  Never actually played Force Unleashed I'll assume it's not worth it? "

It's totally worth it at a discounted price, if only for the story. "

Yes, the story is by far the best in recent Star Wars history. Somehow a motion capture CG version of Samuel Witwer was able to express more emotion than Hayden Christensen managed in all three prequel films.
 
Personally I thought it was a blast but I can see how some people would have been disappointed. I suppose I was easily amused by the insane force abilities and Euphoria engine. Can't wait to see what they do in the sequel.

" @LiquidPrince: I actually really didn't like the story. It kind of downplays the amazingness of Luke Skywalker, and I'm not okay with that. "

That's probably one of my major issues with the evolution of Star Wars. Since I grew up on the Original trilogy to me Jedi fight with lightsabers in a realistic dueling style and the most incredible thing you can do with the force is throw boxes at someone and convince Stormtroopers to let you pass. Now seeing Jedi backflipping about and crushing AT-ST walkers into balls they really contrast terribly with the original material. I know they try to explain it away as Obi-Wan and Yoda are ancient and Vader is half robot so they arn't as nimble as they used to be but it still doesn't fix the problem.

No, I'm not disappointed by how things were in the Original trilogy. I liked it that way. Everything looked used and lived in and even though the Jedi had incredible powers they weren't godlike super beings. The Clone Wars were talked about as a catastrophic event and the Jedi had been wiped out decades before. Then the prequels come out and you learn that the Clone Wars only occurred twenty odd years before and Emperor Palpatine seized power through a committee. It also took Darth Vader from being the quiet force choking badass and made him into an emo teenager who was turned to the Dark Side through playing to his need to be loved. There's a reason that people who grew up on the Originals try to forget that the prequels ever happened.

I remember playing the demo of The Force Unleashed on the 360. Some of the force powers were cool but it wasn't all that amazing and it didn't seem like the mechanics could stretch effectively into a full game.