Yes i did notice this. They tried to make them look too real and they ended up looking fake and out of place most of the time. I actually laughed at them when i started noticing them.

Has anyone else noticed how absolutely terrible the explosions look (not on Wii)?

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Star Wars going downhill: Return of the Jedi>Prequel Trilogy>The Force Unleashed>The Clone Wars>The Force Unleashed II

"We have to give everything, even if that means our lives. We will stop at nothing. We will fight for the lost." Mass Effect 2 GOTY FTW

"We're at war. No one wants to admit it but humanity is under attack. One very specific man may be all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat of our brief existance." - The Illusive Man

I got the correct name for this game: The force on-a-leash 2

I have to agree with the complaints about lack of content. The graphics were great and I enjoyed playing this for the 5 hours that it took me. I even enjoyed it for the following 2 days it took me to beat the other dificulty levels. My 4 year old enjoyed it for 5 days till he beat it. All in all the game was fun to play but could have used much more to the content and story. Well worth playing but not worth the money paid for it.

Edited by: Merlinzart on Nov 16, 2010 11:42 AM

I wanted to edit this to my previous post.

I think the game went to far away from the previous character leveling mechanic. While I like the you have X points and can buy this, that or the other thing it doesn't feel customizable. It seems more like something that is mere convention than something that will allow you to give subsequent play-throughs different feels or allow for different strategies. I don't know that I'm asking for full on RPG style here but this system misses the mark too.

Really? It took me only 12 hours to beat the first one the first time, doing maybe half of the sidemissions, and still less than 20 for me when I completed absolutely everything. But I played ME2 for 30-35 hours again doing half of the sidequests and with no DLC.

It's really sad that Endor and Ewoks (cut content) would have made this game better.

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"We have to give everything, even if that means our lives. We will stop at nothing. We will fight for the lost." Mass Effect 2 GOTY FTW

"We're at war. No one wants to admit it but humanity is under attack. One very specific man may be all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat of our brief existance." - The Illusive Man

What just happend? Lucasarts? Hmm? What was the idea?

I've played demos that've lasted longer than this.

It's was a cool, beautiful, arse-kickin' game... for the few minutes it lasted. What the heck went wrong? Can't someone involved in the game make a public statement no the reason why it blew and how it got to be one of the shortest games ever?!?

I bought this game at a local store... yesterday. I began playing it a bit last night, and continued this afternoon after I got home from work. I got the point where I get to choose to decide wether to kill Vader or not. I thought to myself, hmm, this is where the story is going to take off. But nope! It ends!?

I never played the first Force Unleashed, but I've mostly heard good things about it, and it appears to be long enough to qualify as an actual GAME. I ordered the first one last week, it still hasn't arrived yet. Since I really liked the handful of hours I got to experience with Force Unleashed 2, I'm excited to play that kind of action in an actual game, i.e longer than an add-on or demo.
This product (Force Unleashed 2) was nothing but a rip-off. It was a teaser-play. "Hey, here's a snippet of a game you might like, want test it?" Yeah sure... Ok, I've finished the teaser, it was great. Now, how can I aquire the real game. "Well, you see, that was it. That was the whole game" WHAT?!?!

I do feel ripped-off, utterly and completely. And not because of what was in the game, but by what was not in the game. Too SHORT! It wasn't even a game, it was a freakin' teaser.

I remember when I played through Mass Effect 2. Many, including me, thought it was too short, compared to the first game. But even that one lasted for a good 20 hours.

How can I try liking a game that basically ends before it even begins. I barely sat down behind the computer before it was over. This is a new low, not just for Lucas Arts, but for game-experiences at large!

Edited by: Craftura on Nov 15, 2010 11:11 AM

Edited by: Craftura on Nov 15, 2010 11:12 AM

Edited by: Craftura on Nov 15, 2010 11:13 AM

Before I get into my rant about how much of a dissapointment this game is I will let you all know that I am a 29 yr old man who is an avid gamer. I play multiple platforms, multiple types of games. I am not some 12 yr old kid.

With that said I will start my walk through my issues with this game.

First off we all know the game is utter garbage. Im upset because I am unable to return my collectors edition which I really want to do. i went through this game playing casually in about 4 hours.

Now I will keep in mind that i wasnt playing on the hardest difficulty but really developers who put in insane modes that you have to unlock by playing a game only to double the length it takes you to finish it adds nothing to the game. your just making us go through the same thing twice sometimes three times to get our achievements without adding anything new to our replay experience.

Even if we want to playthough on one of our unlocked costumes the game resets to the default after each level which is annoying and takes minutes of loading to set back up EACH level. something that really i see as an oversight in programming

We were shown videos and interviews explaining to us the consumer that we were getting all these lovely features in a game only to be lied to , baited and switched into this piece of junk we paid money for.

Combat was supposed to be enhanced, it was supposed to be better then the first but i played through the game pulling off different combos aparently only to end up with the same moves being done. nothing looked different from the rest just a simple button mash.

the outfits? yeah im upset with them. The good ending outfit looked like it was the start of something unfinished. the sith robes? yeah i agree with everyone here the eyes look like you just yanked them off the maulkiller outfit and the robes hood should of been left up.

as far as levels yeah i think there should of been more. however I did love the transition between them
the lightsabers being dumbed down really sucked to I loved the way they were done in the first game, btw ive played both titled on ps3 I loved the rpish way you named them by actual planets as far as the power crystals were concerned.

big fights? yeah one reason i LOVED the first game was because the dual system that you used in the jedi fights, at the least I expected fights with other clones of myself to use this same combat style you used before, even when fighting the final boss it felt more like fighting something other then a jedi/sith the whole thing didnt seem like a dual at all and was completely drawn out.

stupid things were done graphically that made no sense if anyone plays the first game to the second you can see that the rogue shadow, the SAME ship used in the game is designed slightly differently between game one and two which means that you lucas couldnt even hold to canon from one game to the next , so really its no surprize that you beat star wars lore with a cane up and down the road.

what do i expect? hell all the problems all the watered down content in the game, everything missing im not sure a dlc could fix the issues because quite frankly major interface updates and fixes to combat, graphics, additions of so much content missing would be almost impossible to put into a DLC. and for the players out there who dont have internet? what do they do?

im not going to sit here and say they should add in stores and this and that and be like mass effect or assassins creed because force unleashed isnt mass effect, it isnt assassins creed with lightsabers. But I do think alot needs to be done to finish this game in its current state.

i think lucasarts needs to get in hand with game stores and other stores that sell this product and work out some sorta recall or something so people who would be unable to return the game can do so, I want my money back im ashamed to say I wasted my time playing this garbage.

I work at a national electronics retailer and I can tell you that I will warn all my customers when it comes to purchasing this title in the future untill something is done for your current customers and refuse to buy another title under the name of lucasarts until something is done for the people that had to suffer through this game.

I can sit here like others and whine and cry and demand all I want, I know it wont change anything. if your company cared about its customer base , its fan base that spans over many many years through movies and whatnot you would have done a better job at delivering a quality product.

I dont think you care, I think your laughing all the way to the bank in the fact that you suckered so many people out of there money so you could send them what couldnt even be called half a videogame.

and you know what thats fine, you can take your money to the bank but in the end think of this , we are your paycheck , us the consumer. we are what pays your rent, your morgage, we put the steak dinners on your plates. and if you bite the hand that feeds you. you starve.

as the consumer we can make you or break you its the way the world spins. think about that when you handle this issue, its not a threat, its not anything at all but a reminder from those that make you who you are. because if you turn your backs on us, we can do the same to you. and if enough people dont buy into what trash you give us then in the end i think your side comes out with a heavier loss. Because really, how worse off am I if I refuse to play some piece of trash game.

in the end lucasarts you took a baseball bat to the knees of your fanbase, to your own lore, to your own canon and to the industry itself.

The game was too short. I finished it in 2 non-marathon sessions and I'm not any type of serious gamer.

I wonder if they think that making the difficulty higher makes the game longer?

This game has convinced me to rent any game before I buy it from now on.

Being ripped off is not a good feeling.

This had the feeling of DLC instead of a stand alone game.

Wow deleting replies now, how mature. The last bastion of free speech huh. To repeat - this game fails to deliver in at least 3 major areas that trailers promised, offers little value for the heavy price tag, and does nothing to rewards series fans that thought the original game offered a great platform for improvement and expansion of quality. I hope fans speak out to Lucasarts with their wallets - by returning this game for a refund. The modern DLC culture that has grown recently is an ongoing joke to consumers, but has lazy development and false advertising all over it.