
The Force Unleashed: Xbox360
Pretty much more like the FUN unleashed. Besides the times that I was yelling and screaming how much I hated playing I actually loved every minute of it. Not as much as I have loved other Star Wars titles, but almost. I was really upset initially at how shiny Darth Vader’s helm was and how on a whole, unimpressive the game looked. However, once I was throwing and choking everything in my sight I very quickly became enthralled with the game.
The game exists in the Star Wars galaxy timeline somewhere between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A new hope. The games story itself isn’t more interesting than the perspective of playing a Sith character and fighting Jedi as if they were the bad guys however it does offer additional information on several star wars universe characters, especially Darth Vader. Galen Marek code name “Starkiller” is Darth Vader’s secret apprentice hunting down the remaining Jedi under order of Emperor Palpatine. The intent of the game (I think at least) is to attempt to draw the two trilogies together, however I don’t really feel as though I got that connection out of playing the game. In attempt to not ruin the game plot for anyone who has not played but wishes to attempt this game I will say that the bugs are minimal, and the amount of confusion that different levels offer you is relatively standard to that of any other Star Wars game you might have played. Also a plus side is that there are only three absolutely aggravating situations, one of which has something to do with a certain laser, a bridge, and aligning some rings, and another has to do with force “pulling” a star destroyer out of space onto the ground. The game, as expected is highly gimmicky.
The game runs with Lucas Art’s “Ronin” engine but also incorporates third party mechanics such as Havoc, DMM, and Euphoria. As a whole the engine experience has been fun, it’s very destructive which I enjoy. The engine makes the combat system very, very fun. From zapping the snot out of your foe, to throwing multiple bodies into matter that will explode there is little limit to the amount for fun you can have killing NPCS in the game. However, there is a limit of how much fun you can have killing other players with this game: none. What a shame that this game in all its awesomeness does not have

a multiplayer feature for the Xbox360.
The character combat animation were very cool, however I found the character design and animation for some of the cut scenes to be a type of disappointing that only a Star Wars enthusiast can feel. The soundtrack is standard Star Wars themes, and while this is actually endearing I really value the musical creativity that games often incorporate.
This game features cinematic finishing moves that I feel the need to warn people about. It always goes “before you buy it, there are these scenes...at the ends of fights...they involve mashing buttons and its hyper slow and really dumb” and really I can’t think of a better way to say it. The last thing I will mention is that I was thrilled with the various character appearances, they are among my favourite and it was really fun to fight them.
If I were to score this game, I would do it unconventionally:
Fun: 10
Graphics: 8
Sound: 5
Cinematic: 7
Combat: 9