Force Unleashed II is an Forced Sequel… Unleashed
When Negative Gamer was young (before it had been read a million times *smug smug*) I had my heart broken by a game. Long story short; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was meant to replace Star Wars: Battlefront as my favourite Star Wars game. It didn’t because it was rubbish. It was one of the few times I’ve fallen into the hype trap and I paid the price; I wore my sad-face for days, if not weeks.
To prevent this from happening again I will now take the opinion that the sequel, announced at the Spike VGAs earlier tonight (which I didn’t watch as I had better things to do) will be even worse. I will assume they’ll attempt to fix what was wrong by “going Infinity Ward” and turning every part of the game that looks good in a trailer up to 11 then hoping for the best. This tactic will fail miserably and the game will simply be more of the same, if a little worse.
See, at least now I can either be happy I was right, or happy I can finally stop playing Battlefront (I’ve got the DS version to tide me over).
I tried the first game and from what I hear I got the worst of the worst. I played the DS version…
I didn’t like the control scheme very much, I wish games like these let you choose between touch screen controls and button controls. (Some include both, they should learn from these!) If you could change this in SW:FU I never noticed…
On the DS you have six basic actions…and what do you know, there’s 6 buttons you could have assigned those actions to for a secondary control scheme!
I think I honestly played the game for 10 minutes and never touched it again…maybe I’m just really impatient and have a short attention span…maybe I would have enjoyed it on any system other than the DS…or maybe it sucked as bad as I thought it did…
Anyways…I will probably try the sequel once it comes out but it’s not exactly something I’ll be watching and waiting for, or have any expectations of.
Hrmm think I’ll check out Battlefront on the DS though =P
The header says it all really, we need another jedi academy.
I really hope the sequel will be better, because a lot of the ideas in Force Unleashed were great.
*A Forced :)
@ParaParaKing: Agreed. It had so much potential as a concept, but it was completely wasted. Hopefully they can do it right this time, but I’m not buying any of the hype beforehand.
The actually game was good but rushed and incomplete. As long as FU2 (heh) has a completely new storyline with the same level of story quality in it as the last one, i’ll buy it.
Force Unleashed could have been better if they throw out everything they borrowed from other games, like quick time events created to cover up how dull combat really is, and those worthless combos. More Jedi Knight/Academy, MUCH less God of War.