STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II

This is a tough review, because this game is both great and bad. It's bad in a way, because it truly is short (took me 6 hours to beat the first time, and would probably take less time now.) Not only that, but it actually noticeable repeats content and enemies even within those 6 hours. You will see a lot of the same quicktime events and minibosses repeat, just with tweaks. It really does not have much content. There is a time trial mode, but honestly those minigame things bore the shit out of me. However, what it does *beautifully*, is conclude Star Wars the Force Unleashed 1. In fact, this game should not even exist on its own. It should have been ending DLC for the first game. It would have been amazing DLC. I'm not going to spoil it, but if you play it directly after the first game's bittersweet ending, then this game is incredibly uplifting and interesting. The story is like a really, really good fanfiction of the Star Wars universe. It shows you an alternate history of the Rebellion, where true love prevails against all odds, and everything ends very happily, in stark contrast to the first game. Not only that, but the combat and graphics are both super fluid and fun. Moreso than the first game. If you liked the first game then you need to get this, but wait until it's on a sale for less than $10, and don't expect it to be better than the first game. Just expect it to be the *real ending* of the first game.

4 hours. That's all it took me to complete the story. Battles are repetitive, and sometimes the controls are just plain frustrating: "Ho, there are enemies were the camera is pointing, but not where the character is facing? You must want to shoot your lightning into the air then!" Fixed cameras are never good. It was a major pain in the 1st game, and still is. The prompts for what buttons to press are way too small, most of the time I don't even see them until I get my ass kicked. So yes, that 4 hours of gameplay was with me failling in so many fights. Graphics often flicker durring cutscenes, or some objects will just disappear or pop in. I even had a fight against a special enemy that, once the cutscene finished of me destroying him, it sent me back to where the first of this specific enemy type I killed was, so I had to walk all the way back. So why 2 stars and not 1? It's star wars, gota love shooting that lightning.

the gameplay isn't bad (with xbox one controller) but it's like doing the same actions again and again... one sort of big ennemy = one sort of special kill the tearing is monstrous no vertical sync in options (but you can activate the one in nvidia menu) and for now after 4 hours of play, I have a cinematic that always reboot without possibility to pass it :/ (I reinstalled the game, same issue) gtx 1080 - i5 7600k with latest drivers

The port of this game is absolutely awful. I tried all kinds of fixes for the game but it constanlty keep crashing and freezing on me. I use AMD gpu. I was able to get to about 3/5 of the game before crashing and restarting became a chore and had to uninstall the game. Every aspect of this game is worse than its predecessor ,maybe except movement and animations which are a bit more fluid. I just feel like this game was extremely rushed, enemy encounters are boring, story is bad, UI looks like it was done in 5 minutes. Not enough graphics options and support, which brings out all the issues with crashing and freezing.