Post 188 | Unleashing the Force

As of late I have been on what some people may call a Star Wars kick. It is more of an obsession than anything else what with the music and the movie watching and the review reading and video game buying. Wait video game buying? Yes! I bought the first Force Unleashed game from Game Stop. And boy, was that a game...

A CRAP GAME. Like extreme crap. Really, all kinds of bad. The concept is amazing. Really. Being able to be in control of this all powerful force-wielding being is simply awesome. Lightning and light sabers and lifting objects up and all of that all sounds great in theory. The game looks great too. It all looks fairly real and decent for 2008 and the physics engine is decent with all of the glass breaking really well and the Storm Troopers grabbing on to one another. But when actually put together into a game, it kind of fails.

Overall it feels like they worked really hard on making the engine great and the story decent that they did not spend nearly enough time making the game perfect. It is almost like they did not throw this game into any testers' hands at all. There are just so many frustrating moments and what could be awesome but gone wrong moments that the game just suffers so much.

I found myself more than a few times being killed in strange ways, or not being able to figure out how to beat a boss, or getting stuck and not knowing I had to lightning strike that engine and force push that out of the way that it was just extremely frustrating. And that is really disappointing.

I had mediocre expectations for this game and it failed them in nearly all accounts. The story was ok, but there were one to many instances of Darth Vader changing his mind to make it completely believable. That and skanky british pilot did not show any real feelings until the end when they kissed and I was like "Where was the set up for that?"

It is really sad that what could have been a great game wound up being so utterly terrible. After watching Jeff Gerstmann at Giant Bomb give a video review I have to agree with everything he says except for the three stars. At most I would have given the game two.

But there is a little bit of hope for the second one, after watching a video for that one it looks significantly improved and I look forward to playing it as well. After my friend Cody is finished playing the first one here.

Well that is all for now, we have a bit of a three day weekend so I am looking forward to getting out of here and sleeping in my own bed and getting some actual girlfriend time with Tasha. Along with giving her the present I bought for her today. Well thanks for reading as always, I'll be writing more soon I expect so keep on coming back!