Xbox 360 - Force Unleashed

Star Wars: Force Unleashed by Lucas Arts

This review will be short and sweet. The Force Unleashed is a straight forward third person shooter. If you've played Shadows of the Empire, Obi-Wan or Jedi Outcast, you're already familiar with this game. The problem, this game is worse than those aforementioned games.

Controls

Autoaiming is horrible. You end up shooting in all directions except where you wamted. This goes for force powers and the lightsaber. The controls are slow to respond... especially combo moves and force lightning.

Camera

The camera in this game is highly annoying. Sometimes it locks in very closely. So closely, in fact, that you can't even see what you're doing or where you should be. On the Star Destroyer level, the camera is fixed... ??

Levels

The levels work ok, to a point.

Music

Ripped off directly from the movies.

Overall

It's a reasonable game with the exception of the Pull-the-Star-Destroyer-From-The-Sky level where the game simply falls apart. This level is inconsistent with every previous level and doesn't progress the game story forward. It's simply there as a time waster. The final rest of the game after this level is mediocre and the story ends on a very predictable note (teetering on the edge of trite). LucasArts, if you're reading this, considering KOTOR, this one is half-baked.

Score:

• Sound: 7/10 (repetative)
  
• Graphics 8/10 (glitchy, camera problems)
  
• Controls: 5/10 (bad aiming, hard to control, slow to respond)
  
• Bang-To-Buck: 1/10 (Buy it used)
  
• Overall: 5/10 (Lucasarts should have held it back and fixed it up)