Zero Punctuation: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
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I agree very much Yahtzee, oh so very much. George Lucas' vomitous writing and sub-low brow standards have infected LucasArts and everything they touch.
Except KOTOR... and hopefully The Old Repuplic.
Except KOTOR... and hopefully The Old Repuplic.
While I agree with everything about the story and the fact that Starkiller 2.0 is stupidly overpowered right from the start.
The game is fun. Casually lifting the last Stormtrooper of the group you just destroyed and sadistically plunging different coloured lightsabers into him, zapping him with lightening then moving him over a ledge and flinging him away, never gets old.
Oh by the way. Anyone want a FU2 for PS3? Cause I got the Platinum Trophy within a week just playing on and off and now I have completely completed everything in the game.
It is ridiculously easy, even on Unleashed difficulty. Still fun though!
The game is fun. Casually lifting the last Stormtrooper of the group you just destroyed and sadistically plunging different coloured lightsabers into him, zapping him with lightening then moving him over a ledge and flinging him away, never gets old.
Oh by the way. Anyone want a FU2 for PS3? Cause I got the Platinum Trophy within a week just playing on and off and now I have completely completed everything in the game.
It is ridiculously easy, even on Unleashed difficulty. Still fun though!
Despite how short and rather easy the second game is, I still want to play it...but I'll wait until the price drops. Paying 59.99 for a short sequel feels weird. Or I could just rent it.
"Star Wads"? (Perhaps) best typo ever! (Perhaps because I don't know if it was a typo or not).MetalGenocide said:
The thing about why Star Wars was good is because nothing like it had been done before on a big budget. It mimicked Saturday morning serials, Lucas even said so. And to be frank, most of them were done on a teaspoon budget, and they sucked ass. Now, 30+ years later on, everyone has done something like this, so most of the later sequels are seen as shit (and I'm not denying that most of them are shit, but SW only stood out from the crowd because it was so unusual). The story is not very deep, even if it has deep mythological roots, but I think that the designers of games like this are imitating what Lucas has done without understanding what it was he was trying to do with the hero's journey. Copy-pasting without trying to do something different will only get you regurgitated pap.
Look at the first three posts. Nothing offensive at all, not even a "F!RST". And yet, probation. Christ, the mods on this site are oversensitive. Maybe they haven't been getting laid often enough and this is where they take out their frustration? Sounds like a good discussion topic...
On topic: No. I don't think many people DO still like Star Wars. It's the brand recognition that keeps it alive. Sans Ewoks, the original trilogy was superb. Sans Obsidian's penchant for outrageously buggy gameplay and unfinished endgame sequences, the Knights of the Old Republic series was orgasmic. Sans the knowledge that dogfights in space should have fighters moving faster than WW2 era planes, the Rogue Squadron series is jaw-droppingly fun. But everything else?
EVERYTHING else, all of it, all the rest of the stuff we could easily drown in?
Just. Plain. Awful. Get it away from me. No redeeming value. Just dilutes the good bits.
On topic: No. I don't think many people DO still like Star Wars. It's the brand recognition that keeps it alive. Sans Ewoks, the original trilogy was superb. Sans Obsidian's penchant for outrageously buggy gameplay and unfinished endgame sequences, the Knights of the Old Republic series was orgasmic. Sans the knowledge that dogfights in space should have fighters moving faster than WW2 era planes, the Rogue Squadron series is jaw-droppingly fun. But everything else?
EVERYTHING else, all of it, all the rest of the stuff we could easily drown in?
Just. Plain. Awful. Get it away from me. No redeeming value. Just dilutes the good bits.
still like starwars, but thats because 1) its nostalgic, and 2) i COMPLETELY ignore all of the things after the three made in the 70's. yes, its all crap and every time i see ANOTHER thing coming out, im like GEEZ JUST STOP ALREADY. I was so sick of the commercials for the game that i put it to lady gaga music. When i learned that this review was about Forced unleashed, i was REALLY excited to watch you tear it apart. 
Also I Would like too see that both George Lucas and The Prequels gets more hate then what they deserve
and you cant deny that this game had potential. If they just fixed most of what made The Force Unleashed meh then this could have been a great game
and you cant deny that this game had potential. If they just fixed most of what made The Force Unleashed meh then this could have been a great game
I agree with the statement, that the only good things in the francise are Episode 4&5, and KOTOR, and suddenly I remember, I had an argue with a friend of mine, his statement was that Episode 1,2 and 3 are really good films, and not, like I see them, overhyped piles of crap
No.Kristoffer Sivertsen said:
It's just a poor man's Battlefield 1942. Things are so unbalanced and clunky in this game.
in typical producer logic, the same logic that brought us MORE fucking Clone Wars (the Cartoon Network one was awesome, the CG one is just painful), LucasArts has farted out what was basically the same as the first game with no interesting plot. I enjoyed the first Force Unleashed and the plot was interesting enough (if slightly daft), but this makes no sense.
Recommendation? Just play Force Unleashed 1 again, even if the Star Destroyer is the worst quick time even set piece ever devised
Recommendation? Just play Force Unleashed 1 again, even if the Star Destroyer is the worst quick time even set piece ever devised
I honestly still like star wars, a lot. In fact, I'm a huge fan, a fanboy if you will. But I agree with Yahtzee, very disappointed with the repetitive gameplay and overall lackluster story and characters and I hated, HATED the fact that Yoda, my favourite movie, book, tv character of all time serves no real purpose whatsoever in this game. It's totally as Yahtzee said, they put him in as a promotional selling point and I thought he was completely redundant for the 20 seconds he's in this game. So as a die-hard star wars fan I'm hardly trying to justify and defend this game.
Thus I take some umbrage to Yahtzee's gross generalising and his 'see-saw of quality' as it where. I certainly don't live in a state of denial and believe Episode two's romance even vaguely resembles a real human relationship; it was absolutely god-awfully terrible but I simply look past the bad at the whole and often find it to be worthwhile as a Star Wars fan. I wouldn't expect a non-fan (which is what I take Yahtzee to be) to do that because he isn't a fan of the franchise, just two of the films he likes and one video game.
Then again it's all for comedic effect and if other groups can be thrown in one pot to be made fun of I certainly don't mind being poked fun at when done well. And I love the chair analogy.
Thus I take some umbrage to Yahtzee's gross generalising and his 'see-saw of quality' as it where. I certainly don't live in a state of denial and believe Episode two's romance even vaguely resembles a real human relationship; it was absolutely god-awfully terrible but I simply look past the bad at the whole and often find it to be worthwhile as a Star Wars fan. I wouldn't expect a non-fan (which is what I take Yahtzee to be) to do that because he isn't a fan of the franchise, just two of the films he likes and one video game.
Then again it's all for comedic effect and if other groups can be thrown in one pot to be made fun of I certainly don't mind being poked fun at when done well. And I love the chair analogy.
I'm sure there was a force lightning immune enemy in the first one, doesn't that enemy carry over into the sequel?
The original was pretty damn repetitive and the romance was a weak sub-plot...
The original was pretty damn repetitive and the romance was a weak sub-plot...
Bad sound quality. Overuse of "filth" humor. Not terribly insightful.
Very sorry Yahtzee. Disappointing.
Very sorry Yahtzee. Disappointing.