STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II

Short story: Been a Star Wars fan since I was a kid and I loved TFU 1 for it's concept of using The Force in ways unseen and I loved the story about Vader having his own secret apprentice and unwittingly being the one who founds the Rebel Alliance and Galen's sacerfice at the end was well-done. I even enjoyed the USE which rolled in all the DLC and continued the Dark Side ending. In many ways, it's sequel The Force Unleashed 2 was a disappointment. Like the game was rushed out half-finished because when you finish the story, it feels like it's only the halfway point. I am a pretty easy to please fan but this game is just not worth $20 for all you get. You don't even get the Endor or Character Pack DLCs that the consoles got. But this port for the PC IS EVEN WORSE. When I installed this game and booted it up, I didn't get any cutscenes it just dropped me into the gameplay. After doing a bit of research I found out the cutscenes AREN'T EVEN FORMATTED PROPERLY. They will not play. I had to consult the PC Gaming Wiki to find a solution but the fact I even had to is a problem. My advice? Get this game on sale if you HAVE to have it but I'd stick with the first game if I were you. I bought this during the May The 4th sale when it was on sale for $7 which looking back was about right because it FEELS like a $7 game.

Typical LucasArts console port. I don't know if it's Windows 10, or having a modern graphics card, or just having two graphics cards in a laptop. But whatever it is, this game does NOT work! I've tried every compatibility fix and downloaded every patch and mod on the game's wiki page, but nothing fixes it. The game crashes before you can even play it. Do NOT buy this game as is!

This sequel improves on the original in a few ways- the controls are more responsive, the quick time events are more forgiving and less numerous, the boss battles aren't locked into a weird camera angle that makes it nearly impossible to fight, and the enemies can't cheaply stunlock you. Even the voice acting is much better. Unfortunately, this is balanced out by the game being quite short, with only a handful of levels, one of which barely contains any gameplay and another of which is a retread of the same location from the very first level, giving the game a very limited scope. What there is is decent, with some memorable action-packed scenes, but it all feels a bit small and cheap, especially since this version doesn't include the extra non-canon dark side Endor content, which, frankly, sounds like it would have been a blast. Instead we get tedious, excessively difficult optional challenge levels that reward you with extra lightsaber crystals, costumes and experience that the game is too short to justify earning, since there's barely any content to actually use them in. It's also brimming with bugs and glitches, such as quick time prompts so tiny you need a microscope to spot them if you're using a modern resolution, cutscenes with bizarre inverted colors that make everyone have blue skin, jagged, weird-looking shadows, and the more-than-occasional crash to desktop. If you can put up with the bugs it's worth playing once, but unfortunately this one is too flawed to considered a classic.

Your main enemy is camera: always moving to point in wrong direction. After I've used to controls game ended real quick. There were a lot of accidental crashes and I've stuck not able to start one level - game constantly crashed. Perpetrator was video player used in gamae: I've remove *LOAD video files under FMV folder in game installation, "lost" pictures for loading screen, but can start that level.

This game feels half cooked at best. The story is pretty poor and you can wrap up the story mode in about 4h. Not to mention it ends in a massive cliffhanger, which will never be followed through. The only good thing about it is the extra endor mission, where you get to obliterate ewoks