I've bought this game yesterday after work, thinking I'd be settled for a few days just like I had with the first game in the series. Boy was I in for a surprise.....As a small background information, I myself work in the IT sector as a Software Engineer/Software Specialist, so I have a good understanding of the amount of work that goes into a project such as this, but honestly; a project such as this should never come to the commercial market in the first place.
If you've played the first game in the series, "Star Wars The Force Unleashes", and actually finished it, then you're left behind at the end with a series of questions and uncertainties about the fate of StarKiller. The second games tries to fill in various gaps and give a twist to the story told so far. I will not spoil the story, but when looking at Star Wars standards, I must say that I find it rather impossible, especially when compared to the storyline as most people know it.
The game itself has some beautifull cutscenes and cinematics, although there's various glitches in it that make the game stupidly easy. For example, when you're on the higher ground, and there's a giant robot below you, just tumble it with some debris and lightning till the "X" button appears to start the finishing combo. No mather how far you're away, or how high you are, if it's on the screen, you press it and don't move you get instantly teleported to the enemy and the combo sequence begins. Game braking if you ask me....
The game itself is short. Way to short....I finished the entire storyline on normal in about 4 hours flat. That includes watching all the cinematics, dieing a few times to try stuff and defeating Lord Vader in the final battle. 4 Hours!
I don't know what the gaming industry is thinking these last years, but I can tell from all major game releases it's going downhill with games in general. Money is all they seem to care about these days. A decent RPG? Sorry, but the last decent RPG game I played is Final Fantasy 9 and that's nearly 10 years ago.
The game is definitly not worth the 65€ they charge for it. It's way too short, has too many glitches in it, has no challenge and doesn't make sense from Star Wars Point of view....
/me thinks you need to fix some spellings ;) Like the first sentence: 'wark'.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, you're right, 4 hours sounds a bit fast for a game like that. Back in my day I spend whole weekends on some games, that said, I did finish Super Mario on the gameboy in 20 minutes (not the first try), no savepoints back then.
Currecntly I enjoy the most from LAN games and older games.