I was quite looking forward to playing this one, as anyone who knows me knows I'm a rather large Star Wars fan (I do have a dog named Vader after all). The Force unleashed follows the story of Starkiller who becomes Darth Vader's secret apprentice. I wont spoil to much of the story but it does a nice job of bridging the gap between episodes III and IV. Basically the game progresses as Vader sends you on various assassination missions to prepare you for your ultimate goal.
The game has an amazing physics engine and it does a wonderful job of bringing the Force powers gone wild to life, I can honestly say that there has never been a Star Wars game where the player has had such use of the Force as in Unleashed. You are given free reign in how your character's skill progresses so say if like me you love to unleash force lighting on everyone and everything you can upgrade that skill or if you prefer to use your lightsaber you can upgrade those skills it really allows you to play the game how you want.
The Game play is incredibly fun but it does run into the problem of becoming repetitive at times especially with the larger enemies such as AT-STs, you find yourself doing the wash rinse repeat routing a few to many times for my tastes. The boss battles also feel a little bit weak, there is usually a trick to them and once you figure it out its a bit of a letdown. The later boss's do a better job of making you defend and then attack once you have an opening rather than resorting to tricks.
Overall The Force Unleashed was a fun game and worth playing through but once you beat it once there is little reason to pick it up again other than achievements if you are playing on 360...so this one gets a
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Rather than screenshots here's a quick video of the game in action
