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The latest game Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 has a fabulous looking. The graphics and the animations are great. But what we are looking for is more than just good graphics. The game experience is too weak. The story telling of the game is not enough. It makes the game a task of repetition of combats. No matter how beautiful it is, if there is no engaging story behind to give it meanings, it will not be very entertaining for a long time.
Good graphics and special effects used to be enough to make a game popular, but not anymore. Serious gamers now look for good story telling games which allow them to experience an surreal adventure rather than pointless key pressings. I would say that the Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 is quite weak in doing so. The story is not well constructed enough and a bit too boring, even to fans of Star Wars. I like the last episode better personally.
Now to the combat system. I believe every one who watched Star Wars has imagined possessing with the power of the Force. And this game gives you exactly the opportunity to experience that. You can use force push to kick a whole bunch of soldiers off the cliff or does whatever you find amusing. But then again the lack of engaging story lines makes it quickly dull. It is just not interesting anymore after you have done everything possible for one hundred times.
The enemy types are too few. With the simple combat and story, if the game had more different types of enemy to fight than it might buy back some points. But there are simply not enough. One thing worth noting is that some enemy can only killed with the lightsaber and some must be killed with the Force. The game designers tried to make the combat more interesting by mixing these enemies together. But instead of interesting, it makes it annoying.
The game is too short. I took 6 hours to finish the normal mode. Even though the game is so short, it still feels that the same things happened and repeated for too long. I think if it is not fun, it better end sooner. Why suffer boredom for the sake of finishing a game? Unless you are a game reviewer like me, I suggest you to uninstall the game as soon as you feel there is no point to continue.
Overall, the game is good looking. The world it presents is very beautiful but there is nothing else that makes the experience worthwhile.
