Hey everybody,

The first order of business involves Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. My brother had a friend over today and when he logged on to Xbox Live, he told me the Force Unleashed had gone up. I was kinda pumped, so I downloaded it, played to completion and promptly deleted. I agree with what the guys said on a previous bombcast, it feels like a tech demo more than a full game. First of all, the game's graphics don't look that great. Then, and the thing that most bugged me, the targetting system is complete shit. I could never direct my force powers where I wanted them to go because there was so much random trash that I kept locking on to. So, if the force powers don't work right, then there's just the hacking, and that wasn't even much fun. Needless to say, I will not be playing that game any more.

Then I got onto playing the Too Human demo. That game has problems too, but it was fun. I didn't think I'd be saying that. First of all, the graphics on that game aren't good either. The character models look worse than in The Force Unleashed. Also, all of the story content and the dialogue I saw was stupid. I found myself skipping through the cutscenes put in front of me. But the good thing was, just playing that game was fun. I don't why Too Human is any different than The Force Unleashed, maybe it's because the combat is so easy. I don't know. I might actually rent that game, just so I can fight some robots and maybe get a few points along the way.

After all that, I downloaded Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty today. I've been playing for about an hour and I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's more platforming heavy than its predecessor, which is perfectly fine with me. I'm looking forward to playing more of that. I'm just a little disappointed it doesn't have trophies. I thought Insomniac would surely jump on that as soon as trophies were announced. And when I'm all done with that, I'll be playing The Last Guy demo. I just barely touched it before going into Ratchet and Clank, so I'll have to play more of that.

The most important part of the day, however, was that Metallica debuted their new single "The Day That Never Comes" on the internet today. The song is just under eight minutes long and it sounds a lot like one of Metallica's older ballads. I'm very happy with the single and the more I listen to it, the more I like it. Thank God.

With all that out of the way, I guess I'll get back to some Ratchet and/or posting on the board.

>>> Met2609

The Day That Never Comes rocks!

I feel the same way about both Force Unleashed and Too Human. 

Something about Too Human beckons me, but I'm not quite sure what it is.  Growing up on dungeon crawlers like Diablo might have something to do with it, but who knows. 

Everyone is bashing the TFU demo. That's just it. It's a DEMO! They don't want to give everything away and they didn't put hardly anything in it. It was extremely short....like 5 minutes so that means there is SO much stuff there you didn't see. GIve it time people.

But the demo is supposed to get you excited for a game by giving you a taste. I don't like what the demo offers, so I'm going to skip the game. Besides, the biggest problem I have with the game is its targeting system, which most likely won't be changed come release time. 

Exactly.  While a demo is, by design, supposed to merely whet our appetites, The Force Unleashed's demonstration did nothing but exhibit its clunky controls, wonky camera-target relationship, and present an underwhelming -- but overhyped -- collection of physics engines.