Zero Punctuation: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

[The Dream Walker]

Yeah, that was a pretty bad ass part of the game. Those tie fighters were annoying as shit.

 

[yourkie1921]

That's only because the first impression when you see it is pretty much the same as yahtzee's

Either that or they only have a Wii.

True, I guess.

 

[Kraven Angelous]

Someone actually mentioned to me that they'd heard (total rumor mill, amirite?) that they actually had to dumb down the AI in TFU, it was too good at eradicating the player. After a few of the chains of laem I've run into, I'd have to say that I can't say no to that being a possibility.

Well I for one think it would be a possibility but I have found several moments in the game where it just is impossible to hide without having several of them circlying around both sides of your cover, or many of them just jump out of the way of the explosive cylinders and stuff, so you gotta keep at it until you kill them.

I have to say, even though I've only played the 360 version, the controls just feel perfect. Grip is right trigger, which really makes sense considering how much you use the damn thing, and having two sticks to control direction and elevation makes it so much easier to control. Given that the shoulders are triggers, that makes it a lot easier to squeeze down on than say the shoulder buttons of the Dual Shock 3 (which as I recall is identical to the DS2? which has those horribly placed buttons that are a real pain to use frequently). It in all honesty feels very refined on the XBox, which makes me disappointed Yaht reviewed it on the Wii, since the controls, let alone graphics, aren't going to give a good feel for the ride.

Yeah, graphics shouldn't be a selling point, but I will be damned if DMM isn't gorgeous. And it's shamelessly flaunted at points that make you really appreciate the immersion of it.

The control scheme in the 360 is fine, and I actually enjoy it a lot. I now have almost no trouble at locking on to a target and I can easily perform my force combos with variation and effectiveness. In the PS3 however, the control scheme is a little tiresome and for some reason I kept pressing force dash instead of block but whatever, it isn't as comfortable as it is in most games.

The implementation of the 3 engines is great and looks beautiful, the game only suffers for some quirks with the near end levels in which the game isn't as open ended as it starts out, but I did enjoy it and I'm also a Star Wars fan. And maybe it helped that because I know that with a few exceptions, most games about star wars are just not good, so my expectation was really low and so when I played it, I felt it was better than I expected so I liked it.

 

[The Sorrow]

I will be counting facepalms from now on.
You picked the wii version.

*facepalm*
In quite a twist, the psp version is very good.
The PS3/360 version is endless fun though. On a completely different note, you are absolutely 100% correct about I-III.
Medichlorieans.
*second facepalm*
Still no wii attachment that increases accuracy.
*third facepalm*
On to another, completely different statement: Why did you stop picking opening\ending songs? I miss them.

He removed the songs for fear of potential copyright issues.

 

[Battle Medic]

I will be counting facepalms from now on.
You picked the wii version.

*facepalm*
In quite a twist, the psp version is very good.
The PS3/360 version is endless fun though. On a completely different note, you are absolutely 100% correct about I-III.
Medichlorieans.
*second facepalm*
Still no wii attachment that increases accuracy.
*third facepalm*
On to another, completely different statement: Why did you stop picking opening\ending songs? I miss them.

He removed the songs for fear of potential copyright issues.

oh, ok

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I will be counting facepalms from now on.
You picked the wii version.

*facepalm*
In quite a twist, the psp version is very good.
The PS3/360 version is endless fun though. On a completely different note, you are absolutely 100% correct about I-III.
Medichlorieans.
*second facepalm*
Still no wii attachment that increases accuracy.
*third facepalm*
On to another, completely different statement: Why did you stop picking opening\ending songs? I miss them.

He removed the songs for fear of potential copyright issues.

oh, ok

He should hum them then.

 

[XeLLoS7]

excellent review like always.
i always watch ur review before buying a game u reviewed

 

[static624]

good but the fact a small rc car the size of your foot could destroy a door, while a small force blast(whatever its called) can barely open it.

 

[Spacewolf]

why do poeple hate the Prequels the 1st one had a good lightaaber sequnce the second one had a good battle and the 3rd one had both you can just skip the rest, anyone great reveiw glad i bought the PS3 vesion

A better question is you need to ask? Oh wait your alias is Spacewolf well that partly explains it...

How does that explain it because please dont tell me you think Spacewolf is from the SW genre

 

[morrie man]

i think that was brilliant, i have the game for the xbox i think it was brilliant apart from the zombie characters who like do anything else apart from attack you and would rather look into the sky for god or see if my lightsaber works when i shove it through his face but now i think im mutering on so now im just going to stop, but if i was you i would get it for the xbox 360 get it for anything else and you should join goerge lucas in hell.

 

[Harry Tatcher]

This guy, by force of will, simply refuses to jump the shark.

Another outrageously excellent review.

 

[danaird]

This is the first Yahtzee review I've gotten a good chuckle out of for quite some time. Good stuff.

 

[alf1985]

Yeah, the game sucked. But look on the bright side. If all the games that came out were good, Yahtzee wouldn't have us pissing our selves for laughing so hard. So thanks George Lucas, for your horrible game on the wii.

 

[GLaDOS V 2.1]

I was hoping yahtzee would review this game. great video!

 

[COR 2000]

good but the fact a small rc car the size of your foot could destroy a door, while a small force blast(whatever its called) can barely open it.

1.)Depends how weak the door is.
2.)Most of the doors you encounter are most likely made of heavy metals that take longer to move. Besides, you can always Charge your Force Push for a greater effect, obviously.

 

[Littaly]

I was only slightly confused by the lack of mention towards the infamous Star destroyer scene, is it not on the Wii version?

I had a stardestroyer scene on my Wii version, however, I didn't get to do anything It was just a cutscene. Also I didn't get a black lightsabre or an awesome physics engine, sad panda

I am guessing the reason the graphics suck so hard on the Wii is because it's the same version as the PS2 one. The Wii couldn't cough up the same graphics as the PS3/360 so instead of having a slight downgrade it gets to share it with the PS2. Either that or the Wii sucks harder than I thought.

On the bright side, my apprentice doesn't wield his lightsabre like a kid from the 90's wears his baseball cap.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Not such a funny review (no rant about QTE?)

To be fair, he says in a previous review that he doesn't mind quick time events when they're used consistently and are a core gameplay element. In The Force Unleashed they don't suddenly spring up on you, as most of the time you initiate them, and you can predict them based on how much health an opponent has left.

Also, on an unrelated tangent, I think what really made me laugh is people who insist that the game should be on PC. If you think about it for five seconds you realise how ridiculous this would be.

 

[Deschamps]

Even though he didn't talk about the actual game for half the review, he still expressed my feelings towards George Lucas quite accurately.

As far as the game goes, I've played the demo on 360 and it wasn't bad, but I'm not planning on buying the game, at least not while it's new. Maybe I'll get it used some day. But I really don't think I could put up with more Star Wars right now. I didn't even see the Clone Wars, but the trailers irked me enough.

 

[Jursa]

Yahtzee's anger is probably because of Lucas who's not only intent on killing the star wars but also beating in once it's down and then stabbing it a few times and I agree to the hate. As usual a wonderful review.

 

[Adrasta]

I wouldn't be too optimistic about the Xbox 360 version, since it is also whole host of reasons [http://whengamessuck.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/star-wars-the-force-unleashed-xbox-360/] which make me wonder if the designers ever actually played the game before they shipped it.

And that reviewer seemed to be complaining about the fact that the game was balanced instead of letting him kill everything in one hit with any ability. DEAR GOD, A GAME THAT TRIES TO BALANCE OUT SOME OF THE SUPER POWERFUL ATTACKS YOU GET FOR THE SAKE OF MAKING THE GAME SOMEWHAT OF A CHALLENGE?! PAN IT!

You miss the point. The prospect of using "unleashed" force powers was the only selling point of this game. And you can't, which makes it a ripoff.
If they had to do it for balancing or other reasons is irrelevant - they just should have thought of that sooner. Force powers are too imba for a game?! Shock! What a surprise!!

So they couldn't give you awesome powers because that would have been to easy, but they still needed to create a badass sith hype to get the silly prequel kiddies interested. So they were screwed.
This shows only one thing: That the whole game concept doesn't work and they shouldn't have made it in the first place.

Maybe LucasArts should go back to games that once made them great, adventures and flight sims. But then, some of their marketing jerks have decided that such games are "out" and trash like TFU is far more lucrative. And this is the result.

The only thing I don't get is why some of you even act surprised.