This is a cheap excuse, the game is lacking badly in some areas, and the scores the game(s) are given are because of these reasons. Whether you want to accept those issues for what they are or not is another thing. The way you say it makes it sound like it is unfair and they SHOULD feel better about the game.Which sounds very contradictory to the first part of the comment. So you say they are not feeling the game as a whole, then you say it is nothing more than an average experience, and the reviewers are not wrong--but again they are not seeing the game as a whole--and you will get this average game because you are a star wars fan.

You know your game will be nothing special when it is single player only and 8 hours long. Your main mechanic in the whole game is not well implemented, the technical side lacks the polish to bring it to that next level (another feature bragged about), the AI is SEVERELY lacking, and your level design is also average.

I think these are all valid reasons, and ALL these things you can see in the demo. These are PROBLEMS, if you don't think of them as such, good for you, but these are PROBLEMS with the game, and thus the scores.

Mace Windu and Darth Vader have confirmed-to-work codes for model swapping, so we're sure to get Maul and a handful of others.

Stop saying 8 hours long when you cant even max out your character in one single playthrough and get everything along with it.

My friend who keeps playing NG2 beat MN in one day didnt even get the chance to max out Starkiller in TFU, so he played again and again for the fun of it, the 2 different endings, outfits, lightsaber customizations, and max the character out...etc.

"You know your game will be nothing special when it is single player only and 8 hours long."

Really? :S

Some people can let go of some issues in a game but see the game as a whole and see the fun factor of it and still have fun and say their purchase was worth it.

But whatever, I woouldnt even care if they gave it a 4/10, i would still buy it because i had alot of fun with the demo itself, and that was like 10 minutes or so.
And if I had so much fun in 10 minutes with a demo that barely gave me any of the cooler force powers, I cant imagine how much fun I will have with the full game.

Wait what!?

You mean there are codes to play as Mace Windu and Darth Vader as character skins...for the next gen versions?

Now I want Darth Maul only because he has cool acrobatic moves while fighting and he got double edged lightsaber :)

This got more interesting :D

Yoda please! :D

PS. Got a link to this info?

My lingo has obviously confused you (as it dose others most times), when i said 'there not feeling the game', i meant flaws an all, not sure why that got your back up so much!, nor do i give a frack so i'll move on.

<<< - CHEAT CODES - >>>

Using these might mess up gaining achievements. It's best to use these on another profile. Input these in input code tab in the pause menu.

-MANDALORE: General Rahm Kota
-WOOKIEE: Kento's Robe
-DANTOOINE: Ceremonial Jedi Robes*
-KORRIBAN: Sith Stalker Armor*
-HOLOCRON: Sith Robes
-MARAJADE: New combo*
-LIGHTSABER: Amplified damage
-KATARN: Increase force powers to maximum level*
-SITHLORD - Get Darth Vader*
-JEDIMASTER - Get Mace Windu*

* = New codes.

I wonder what the new combo does, I hope it's something very cool.

About Darth Vader code, I don't know what they have done with him once you get to play with him in the rest of the game.

He will either probably be slow with his own voice and have force choke, or...be exactly like Starkiller but a Vader skin slapped on him.

I hope on the first one.

Just a quick confirmation...

The Mace Windu and Darth Vader codes are for Wii and PSP.

fucking shit
i got hit with the "default text" glitch on the last level on sith lord

screw this

Some have it some don't.
I guess it's pure luck for some, hope LA fixes this with a patch.

Remember that NG2 had a cutscene freezing issue and it took shitload of time to fix it with a patch, so I don't think LA will let this one slip...I hope.

I hope I don't run into this problem.

Let me ask you this then...can you atleast play the other difficaulties and gain everything and save it, and still have the Sith Lord difficaulty save slot for maybe a future patch?

cant wait for this game i have been starving myself of all media, so i can enjoy it all whilst playing.

If I remember right you are from UK right?
Well we both have to wait 2 more days days (friday) to get it.

BTW...GameInformer gave the game 8.75 for the game.
They still say there are glitches and problems (like any other game).
But they did say if you are a hardcore Star Wars fan and love to feel like a badass "dark jedi" with the force powers, this is the one.

Now I love 3rd person action games and I love star Wars...this will be perfect for me until future titles with similair combat system gets out.
They are even thinking of making The Force Unleashed 2 in the future.

Anyway, I am gonna watch A New Hope today and then tomorrow night I will be watching Revenge of the Sith, then it's friday and the game will be mine :)

yep 2 days, i may pre-order as you get xtra force abilities?

I hear that code is either something you unlock within the game or a code that is already out.
But hey, you pre-order it, if you get the code, write it here so I can grab it.
It's easy to know if the code is already known or not :)

This game is pretty good obviously it could be much much better if it went down a different route some classic platform issues like falling into the abyss but other than that its got a good story i really like the euphoria engine and hope it only gets better with time on future games. It aint no walk in the park either there are some hardish moments but i like games to be difficult at times cause i grew up in the atari, amiga generation. I am close to the end now and dont want to spoil anything for you guys an gals so im gonna shut up.

Good to hear another person enjoying the game (Barber).

Any sort of gameplay breaker with glitches?
Like the problem with "Default Text"...if not, then there is a chance that not everyone is gonna get it.

One thing I didn't like was the fact that some grounds like the ones in Raxus Prime are considered "one hit death" falls...a bit shame really.

Barber, I might as well ask you...did you find any orange colored lightsaber?
I know there is "gold" and that is considered "yellow"...but I have seen orange color too, but I want to know what I should do to get that color.

It doesn't register you as beating the level (no achievement), it doesn't it allow you to gain experience spheres for doing objectives, it doesn't allow you to get the collect all holocrons achievement though you are able to keep what's inside the holocrons, and you still get the achievement for beating the game.

It's just annoying to spend all that time collecting holocrons and you just get cheated out of the achievement.

People on the PS3 forums are saying they're getting it too, though there aren't any trophies so it's not as big a deal.

This game could have used a few more weeks of bug squashing.

Aha so its achievment problem...gotcha.

I thought the problem was that you couldnt keep what you gained if that happens and the game wouldnt save or something.
But if it's something that troubles the achievement, then I am good to go on the PS3 hehe.

But this still means they need to patch it though, but for the PS3 owners it's not something to care about.

Short impression.

I say it's great...with flaws here and there.

The bad:

- Glitches...like sometimes you cant kill regular stormtrooper even if you are next to them.
You jumping out of the level (happened to me once in Raxus Prime).

- Enemies can hit you when you are in combo, throw, on the ground...annoying!

- Long loading screens (but sometimes fast depending on which option menu you are going in)

- Taking down the Star Destroyer that was such a pain to do. Something that epic, you pretty much expected something better in terms of gameplay to do so...dissapointing.

The Good:

- Crazy force powers that was not so much in the beginning, but once you max them out and know how to use them properly and in combat it looks so cool and scripted, like a cutscene :)

- Cool various combos you can make to take out the enemy. Sometimes you have to figure out which combo and force powers it takes to take them out, lightning isn't always the best solution.

- Cool QTE's in boss fights.

- Gives you a big challenge (I played on Sith Warrior, so I know i am gonna get my ass kicked on Sith Lord and Sith Master)

- Cool kits...outfits and lightsabers. There is a huge variety in the costume department...you gain new outfit in each level you get to, with 3-4 or so secret ones you have to gain from finding holocrons.
Lightsabers...well there are colors and then there are visual effects for the lightsabers like the lightsaber is pulsing like a shockwave, default and on that has a wavy look...3 looks.

- Very good story that ties between 3 and 4...not gonna spoil it but it's good (atleast I thought it was).

- Good music :)

- Amazing cool looking force power counter attacks!
Once you go into a force counter attack with another force wielder the visuals of they fighting for the power (you press fast buttons) it looks awesome!
Kind of like how Yoda was fighting Darth Sidious and they were both countering the lightning :D

Now I played the entire day yesterday and I didn't finish it in 8 hours...I started playing it around 11:30 and ended around 21:00...it was around 10-11 hours.
But I was trying to master the combos, figuring out the enemies and bosses and finding the secrets.

It's not a glitchy clusterfest, but the glitches will come, now and then...sometimes you won't even get one for hours (which I luckly got)
It was fun, it just depends if you are a "hardcore" Star Wars fan and a 3rd person hack and slash fan...this is the best you get...for now.

I hope LucasArts releases a patch or something to these long loading times, glitches...etc. will vanish because there has been alot of request for it...and trophies for PS3 (which I dont mind).

Me personally, I really liked it, and I am gonna continue for some replay because I didn't find alot of the stuff I wanted, and I didn't even max out my force powers...so a second run is needed for me...and some.

One thing I don't like is that it automatically saves for you, I wanted to manually save it...I don't know if it's possible or not.

In terms of my "kit" is the white "Altair" like outfit called "Jedi Adventure Robe" and Orange "gold" lightsaber.
But I do love that Corellian Flight Suit, really me :)
Reminds me of the Knights of the Old Republic era and has that jedi exile and now a regular person type.

Anyway, I would give it a 8/10...the missing 2 points is for the glitches (in general) and they could slightly do more with the combat.

They are already thinking of The Force Unleashed 2, so I hope they do because it has big potential...they just need to polish their title up!

hi all i am new to this form so i beat the game just going though in less then 6 hours oh and after that i found a great cheat but you will not be able to see a clip but it makes you look like you are playing as that character i look like i am aniken before he turned evil

LucasArts plans to release new characters and a new single player campaign set in the Jedi Temple as downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in coming months, Force Unleashed executive producer Haden Blackman told Kotaku.

The content will be coming to be the 360 and PS3 version of the game. No specific date or prices have yet been set for the downloadable content.

In the coming months Lucas Arts will release a downloadable content pack featuring additional costumes and character models that can be used to play through the single-player campaign. The new models will include Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto.

The skins we decided to release were "based on what we heard from fans," Blackman said. "But some were from us. We thought Ki-Adi-Mundi or Kiit Fisto would be exciting to see running around in our game."

While the new skins simply give you a new way to play through the existing content, the new level will be played out on a beefy new map and includes quite a bit more plot.

Due out later this year, the new single-player mission is set in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant. Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice travels to the temple to learn more about his father, and while searching through the rubble of the destroyed building he confronts his inner demons.

The level seems to fit in nicely with a moment in the original game when the Apprentice comes face to face with the ghost of his father. I asked Blackman if that was done deliberately, or if that confrontation would be where players would jump off into the new adventure.

"That was a scene we had written into the script to suggest that the apprentice was getting more into his background and in touch with his childhood," Blackman said. "It's in there to remind the player that the apprentice had come from a jedi father that he wasn’t always evil. It coincides nicely with him beginning to question working for Vader."

Blackman said the team talked about having that moment be the jumping off point for the new adventure, but in the end decided it wasn't feasible.

"We wanted players to be able to access it immediately when they download it," he said. "So it’s an added level. A separate campaign."

The new campaign's map is smaller than The Force Unleashed giant level on the junk planet Raxis Prime, he said, but it's larger than Cloud City.

"We hope it hits the sweet spot for size."




This new location, which appears in a different form in both the PSP and PS2 versions of the game, was one of about eight that the teamed talked about including in the final game, but didn't make the cut for one reason or another.

"We had a list of 20 locations in our exploration phase," he said. "Those got whittled down. Which ones were viable and which weren't. The temple hung on and hung on and hung on. We had to make cuts right before production and it was one of those."

And Blackman said it's entirely possible that the internal development team working on this new DLC will continue to work on new episodes, that The Force Unleashed could essentially become a delivery system for episodic content.

"We brainstormed a ton of locations," he said. "There's easily another two dozen we could make into levels. This is a good way to continue the story."

"I wouldn't rule out any future content on The Force Unleashed."

This new content also makes the game that much more replayable, something that could potentially help bump it from a rental to a purchase.

"We hope gamers hold onto the game anyway," Blackman said. "There is already a lot of replayability built into it. There is quite a lot of exploration you can do. If you enjoy the story, the gameplay, the first time through, though, you should enjoy this."

This game is pretty awesome.

Really fun game all around and the QTEs that kick in at the end of boss battles are truly impressive.

I'm really digging the overall story, wish it were an actual movie so I could just sit back and enjoy it all. A nice number of combos, I never get tired of them and I feel as if there are more than enough to keep me satisfied and the game can really be quite challenging at times.

The jedi fights are impressive, the game has fantastic production values. Great voice acting, I have quite a bit of praise for the game. Didn't think it would be this good.

I thought it was a good romp, and i'll be getting the dlc too.