My housemate and I recently had the extreme displeasure of playing LucasArt's latest dead-horse-flog 'em up Star Wars game, The Force Unleashed II, for the Xbox360.
My God. Honestly, it's just... awful.
I wasn't exactly a massive fan of the original Force Unleashed, but I could at least appreciate that they had tried to make something fun. It just felt rather bland, repetitive and was aimed a little too squarely at the adrenaline junkie knuckle-draggers out there. I can't say I approved of their attempt to shoehorn a completely new character and storyline into the well worn original canon, either.
But FUII is simply a stunningly lazy product. Aside from most of the assets just being recycled from the previous game, the combat has somehow become even more pedestrian and repetitive. Button mashing will get you through 75% of the pathetically short stages as you become almost unstoppably powerful right from the outset. True, you'll suffer the odd death due to the agonizingly long falling-over-and-getting-back-up animations and dodgy targeting, but almost nothing you fight will give you any meaningful challenge.
I mentioned the FUII's lackluster length, and it is short - incredibly, almost embarrassingly short, in fact. On normal difficulty it can be blazed through in less than 6 hours and I personally can't think of a single reason to go back and play any more.
As a DLC for the original Force Unleashed this would be an acceptable, if uninspired purchase for, say, 1200 microsoft points, but the idea of paying full FRICKIN' price for this is almost nauseating.
If I were Darth Vader I would force-choke George Lucas until his eyes popped out just to put an end to this dreadful tat once and for all.
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