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Reviews: Star Wars: Force Unleashed Review

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for good gameplay.

Giant Bomb delivers the final word on video games in podcast form.

Sep. 17 2008

Cast: Jeff

Posted by: Jeff

93 Comments

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Edited By Ruisu

Ending = GOLD lol great review I was exited about this game but something about the Demo turned me away form it.

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Edited By mathewballard

I'm still getting the game. I know I will like it. And Jeff all the Star Wars movies were good. Not just the original ones.

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Edited By GioVANNI

That ending=Win

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LOL, I love the ending.

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Haha, ending was classic for sure. Awesome review, can't wait to try it for myself to see if I agree.

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Edited By Brewski

I played the demo and loved it, got a bit hyped up about it and yet I still find myself pushing through the same level in more than one sitting because of the monotony. Energy Drink: 1, Lucas Arts: 0.

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Feel like blazing through it for the story. 

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Edited By Ilias13

Got the game on 360, indeed it ain't something special in terms of gameplay, been there done that. But you 're gonna love it if you are a Star Wars fan :)

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Edited By Hef

I would have said 4 stars. They way Jeff said he played the game wasn't at all how i played it.  I had a lot of variety in my force powers and only really found the last leel to be truly frustrating. There were some moments where i was yelling at the TV to let my guy just stand up so i wouldn't die, but that happened maybe twice. Great story, visuals sound, and better than average gameplay. 4 stars in my books

Also, I didn't find like i was cheating in the boss battles at all. I never died and always found that certain force powers worked better on certain bosses than other. Still, Jeff made some fair points, and I love the editing still :P

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Edited By aaox

Awesome review.

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Great review. Might rent the game or buy it second hand.

Awesome ending as always. lol.

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Edited By LightYagami245

Great review. When I played the game(which I finished in the same day), I saw those flaws during my play. I hated the gang-up-and-beat down-the main character during some of the later levels.

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Spot on review. It was worth the frustration for the story though.

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This game is like my ex at morning time!

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I thought this would turn out to be just another tech demo . Great story though . Massive fan of the franshise

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Ha, great review! Nice T-Shirt!

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Edited By AgileNate

Great review. Time for LucasArts to make another Jedi Knight game. Jedi Academy was fun and I think with this gen. of consoles they could improve that series greatly.

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Edited By Aaron_G

Nice review Jeff!

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Edited By Red

I love GB Reviews. They usually have unexpected opinions but they're great at explaining them.

Anyways, I'll probably rent this game some time, probably won't drop 60 simoleons on this anytime soon though.....man....I was so hyped when I first heard about it.....oh well.

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Edited By kronik420

Good review.

I, like most people in their rights minds, will wait until this game lowers price. 
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Edited By royalvikingsun

ok so i'm new to this site. Let me just say, the story sucked me into this game like a tracking beam. i found myself captivated by it, too the point where i was rushing threw the game for the cut scenes. Beating it a second time i found that although the story was amazing, it has little replay value. The review here was dead on with the gameplay lacking, and all the glitching felt like this game was half way threw with being finished and they tossed it onto the shelves. My advise would be to buy the force unleashed comic or novel and wait to rent the game before you buy it. And in a month get your ass a copy of Fable 2!

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I'm kinda disappointed bout how they made the light saber... :(
it's supposed to slice stuff, but in this game every time you hit with the light saber it feels like a blunt wooden weapon just mashing on em... Not happy, not at all... :(
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yes, i like the review....no, I don't, yes, i like the review....no, hang on I don't, yes, i like the review....no, I don't, ah perhaps I do.........ahhhhh I'm done here.

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I still wanna play this game regardless of its flaws

However, after playin the demo I found it weird that you cant force lift while moving....WTF!!!!!!!!
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T-Shirt!

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I have been enjoying the game greatly, makes for a great gamefly add.

Nice review Jeff you rock man!

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"kickin @$$ with the force", no no, more like getting ur @$$ kicked while using the force.

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I dunno about the consoles, but the PSP version is great!

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Does anyone know where to get this t-shirt?

Nice review, by the way.

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cool u guys are doing awesome on the sight

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when's the next video review? I hope it's for far cry 2 or dead space

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Edited By Buccura

Personally, the name, Forced Unleashed always turned me off. I'm a Star Wars fan but I think I'm going to skip this one.

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that's what I like to be in a review, great sense of humor

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Lol ending.

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@TheHT said:
" I dunno about the consoles, but the PSP version is great! "
-.- the PSP is a console
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@leky1 said:
" @TheHT said:
" I dunno about the consoles, but the PSP version is great! "
-.- the PSP is a console "
so when someone says a game is coming out on all 3 consoles you're telling me that you actually get confused about what it's coming out on?
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One to miss then.

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Edited By MiamiRedHawks

Just picked this up for 10 bucks. I'd say its a fair review.

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Edited By Xaviersx

Still worth playing, for the universe it is and the playground of powers and set pieces to lay waste.  I just wish that the environments could completely crumble to the awesome power of the dark side. . . . .  Alas, hidden walls and destructables that just temporarily scar . . what are some of these things made of . . adamantium?
 
 Good review, as always Giantbomb.

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Love these GB reviews, and the endings are still funny years later.

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No.