The fact that I can finally pick up people and throw them to their death again with the force may be blinding me, but come on.. when is that ever not fun? You're not wrong Acert.. but.. force grip! It's like, force choke, but it can pick up exploding barrels too! ;)

I am not saying the game isn't fun, but it has a lot of flaws that detour me from purchasing. No coop or online play, which would add a lot of true replay, are big let downs. Jedi show downs or 2 player coop (combo jedi power linking!!!!!!!!!!!!) would have been very cool. Heck, even a GeoW2 horde mode (or whatever they call it) where you and a couple friends fend off increasingly difficult waves of attackers would be cool. Throw in some different environments and context sensative force powers/interaction and at least you have something to do after beating the main game.

I think the core concept in the SW:TFU is really good. And while I can nitpick not being able to run+lightsaber block or move and force grab, overall the mechanics and play are fun enough.

If this was an Action RPG ala Diablo or Too Human I could overlook some of the issues (camera, targetting), especially if there became a rhyme and reason for the importance of using different attacks (e.g. Heavenly Sword has the color indicators for the type of attack or whatnot that you should employ). But for an action game this game is a very, very mainstream game that lacks any learning curve.

But you are a super bad Jedi/Sith who knows no bounds to your power.

So it is cool and you can do stuff you wish you could do but never will be able to. So rent it for $5 for a weekend, spend 20 hours shocking, force gripping, etc enemies until you are so sick of it you never want to play it again :P

Btw, if they did a sequal how cool would it be if:

A) you could really customize your Force powers: don't like lightning? How about custom mix and match force powers to make your special player ... and then take him online for quests or duels.

B) Combat that matters. A risk system on light saber swings (light, medium, strong; high/low? use an analog stick and trigger for such??) for some depth... but more importantly is some VF/SC style combos that really matter.

The game has potential but the demo felt broke to me. Even the link to the open area hints at the same problems: the AI is dumb, but even when they shoot it barely hurts you anyhow (no urgency to block anything). You essentially are in a big play ground with dumbies and told, "Go play with these cool force powers." And they are cool but there is no skill and I am already sick of shocking people.

There seems to be hints of custom progression in this game already. I agree it's far from perfect, but I still want to play it. I'm more critical of Vader's goofy voice than most of its more glaring gameplay flaws. I agree that it doesn't seem to represent much of a value though, especially at todays cost of gaming. That's why they invented rentals, bargain bins, and second hand gaming.

I don't know. I think it's probably what, an easy ten hour romp, which while fun, is it really worth $60? Multiplayer adds additional value to a game. I wouldn't want tacked on multiplayer either, but it's not hard to see the potential for good multiplayer in a Star Wars action game, especially when it's been done before.

Plus you're comparing it to games that are like.. GOTY sort of titles. Do you really expect that much from Force Unleashed? I think it's going to be good too, but I'm not paying full price for it.

Well obviously, loads of people are going to buy it. But tons of people buy shit that's totally not worth the cover price anyway. When you spend a significant portion of your budget on entertainment, it becomes important to budget what's important, and value becomes a significant issue.

10-12 hour games with little replay value just aren't worth $60 to a lot of people. You can't blame them for that. I don't think there's many gamers who think this thing is GOTY material either, and I happen to really enjoy Star Wars quite a bit myself.

When you can rent a game for a fraction of its price and easily complete it in that rental period, why buy?

This is my take: you remove the SW license from the game and it is a pretty poor game. Obviously the license makes it more appealing and piques a sense of nastolgia, but you slap the license on any number of underwhelming games and tweak the gameplay to fit such and you get my point. Call this game "God of War III" and you have a really, really bad follow-up to GoWI/II, or even Heavenly Sword for that matter. A strong story may be a strong point (lets see the entire package before we start praising the story though) but so far the gameplay has some real big issues. AI is really dumb, the camera is very poor for an action game, Euphoria and DMM don't appear to really be a big part of the gameplay itself so far, the combat is remedial, and so on.

But it is Star Wars, so people will love it and buy it. The fact it doesn't totally suck is the icing on the cake!

SW is Cars, Barbie, Finding Nemo, GI Joe, Power Rangers, etc for adults. ;)

There's is no multi-player--so it won't be tacked on. Your backwards logic work both ways. And FYI, multi-player is not mandated by camera perspective. Just because you think that a 10 hour action game is worth full price, it doesn't really change the fact that Acert is right--if this game weren't a Star Wars game, you probably wouldn't be comparing it to games like Ninja Gaiden and God of War.

And lets not try to pretend that every action game is on the same page with those high profile releases.You're right. Star Wars is for kids too (as well as nostalgic adults).I didn't say this was shit--I said that people buy shit--and that's a fact. So regardless of value, this game will sell, for a variety of reasons. It's in no small part because it's a Star Wars game.

Of course it is: it is a mammoth license that, regardless of the quality of the product, people will buy it because of the license. Being good quality is only a plus. Further, the trend is to maximize appeal with the license therefor accessibility is a prime principle in design as well as initial "cool factor" to draw consumers in.

Parents will buy their children Cars et al branded games because kids want products, regardless of quality, because there is an emotional attachment to the license.

Star Wars is no different and the sales history of titles in light of their comparative quality, puts a pretty big exclaimation on this point. You throw the Red Dwarf license on SW:TFU and I bet (a) it gets less than 25% the exposure that this title has and (b) at the same quality the reviews would be lower and the title would sell substantially less.

Red Dwarf!

;)

I never said I was trying to stop you from wasting money.