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Star Wars THE FORCE UNLEASHED 2 |OT| You can use TWO lightsabers now
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badcrumble
Member
Demo was awesome. I'm currently deciding whether my next pickup will be Vanquish, TFU2, or Castlevania.
The Game Informer review was in the October issue. It was a 7.75/7.5, but they seemed pretty butt hurt about the cloning. I don't see why you'd blame this game for that when cloning Jedis has been a part of Star Wars canon for a long time now.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187275/poor-yoda-and-short-round
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187275/poor-yoda-and-short-round
macfoshizzle
Member
i haven't played the demo yet but can you disengage the lightsaber in this? i had an issue with the first game where i thought it was silly of a jedi to just have his lightsaber on at all times.
BattleMonkey
Member
Should enjoy, even though the story is pretty laughable.
Good OT, will be buying when it comes out. I predict i'll have a blast with the gameplay. Already know about the story, it will be funny. I'm not in the least suprised, for me Haden Blackman is one of the worst Star Wars writers. Was really glad to hear he had left and then just the other day he says in an interview that he would still be willing to work with Lucasarts on Tfu3 and that he already has the story completely planned out, shit.
Yep. You can see that moment for a brief second in the trailer that comes with the demo.
Zenith said:
Yep. You can see that moment for a brief second in the trailer that comes with the demo.
No, cloning jedi's was deemed impossible in canon. Cloning jedi's would have come in handy during the clone wars. Now cloning force users in the EU, that's another thing.jkanownik said:
Doesn't seem like it. This was also one of my complaints that i had hoped they would fix in the sequel. Now instead looking stupid running around with one saber all the time, you're running around with two sabers.macfoshizzle said:
CartridgeBlower
Member
Willy105 said:
Yeah, I agree. I really don't see what was so wrong about the story in the first game. I'm not a Star Wars superfanboy, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I thought the story was well told and avoided the cheese.
It still looks good though.
ZeroGravity
Member
Going to be great just like the first game.
AwesomeSyrup
Banned
I can't wait to play this game. The demo was awesome.
TouchMyBox
Member
Hey... I like the first game. It was pretty shitty, but I liked it. At least the price was right (free). Thanks futureshop!
I'm interested in this game now that it's launching on PC and won't be 30GB :lol
Yeah, they got lazy and each level contains a copy of each graphical asset in the game. So you'll have a copy of the same texture a few dozen times. Lazy lazy lazy.
I'm interested in this game now that it's launching on PC and won't be 30GB :lol
Brandon F said:
Yeah, they got lazy and each level contains a copy of each graphical asset in the game. So you'll have a copy of the same texture a few dozen times. Lazy lazy lazy.
DihcarEM said:
Aren't there different levels of canon though?
Like
1. George Lucas said it / It was in the movies.
2. Stuff from the Novels (Del Rey, Bantam)
3. Dark Horse Comics
4. Video games
5. Junior novels (Schoolastic)
6. Marvel Comics
7. Kids books and games
I thought most people considered at least the first 3 to be "canon" or something... As they all try to be consistent with each-other.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Willy105 said:
One difference is that you don't have to swing the remote to swing your lightsaber anymore, which is good. Also I believe there is some pointer gameplay for Force powers. Multiplayer is like Smash which should be an improvement over the duel mode in the first game, but then I remember I played TMNT Smash up which is supposed to be a Smash clone too.
I remember seeing some screens in Nintendo Power and it looked decent.
CadetMahoney
Member
I like the new title. *golf clap*
kodt said:
You're...kinda correct.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon#Canon_in_the_Holocron_continuity_database
BattleMonkey
Member
darthbob said:
That's kind of out of date, right now with LFL it's basically all in continuity. The only difference is Lucas vs. everything else as he himself said as much. They used to try to keep things away from each other like in the Bantam books era where they didn't acknowledge the video games or marvel comics, but thats no longer the case. LFL's stance right now is pretty much it's all in continuity unless it just can't fit or goes against something specific Lucas says/does.
Right now its basically what Lucas does (movies/clone wars) and everything else in the other category.
Willy105 said:
Well you could read the book instead :lol
The first game while being out there wasn't that bad story wise, though it had me roll my eyes at some things as it felt like some bad fanfiction at times. But either way I thought TFU1 worked well on it's on story wise.... making a sequel though and it's premise is just a bit too far even though it looks cool. Seems like Jerry Bruchkeimer presents Star Wars to me I guess. And Maulkiller..... yikes.
Was it just me or did they drop some of the physics engines the first one used? the DMM seemed absent this time around, and the Euphoria seemed toned down a lot. Perhaps I'm mistaken though but my experience with this demo seemed much more watered down and a whole lot less polished, though the combat seemed a bit more entertaining somehow :lol
BattleMonkey
Member
Unicorn said:
Dont know, seemed better. If anything I think it was a bit floaty and overdone in the first game, they might have toned it down to be less crazy this time around?
Wow.:lolZenith said:
But anyway, George Lucas fucked the series in the first place(with the New Trilogy)so i kinda don't care about all the continuity matter.
To me, SW is just the first 3 movies, the rest is just mindless fun or stupid shit to laugh about.
Also, was DMM toned down? Cause in the demo is almost non existent.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
Gameinformer's review. 7.75 Second Opinion 7
+ One of the best looking games this generation
+ Combat has been refined
- Terrible groan inducing plot
- No level variety
- By the numbers boss battles
+ One of the best looking games this generation
+ Combat has been refined
- Terrible groan inducing plot
- No level variety
- By the numbers boss battles
Urban Scholar
Member
Coming for the force shenanigans & thanks to Samuel Witwer going to enjoy the story for what it is.