Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Broken"

...glad I rented it and I'm returning it tomorrow!

Seriously, this game is not only broken but fails to keep you entertained at all times. It's a hack and slash bore-fest full of annoying gameplay that ruins the enjoyment of the interesting story, flat out. It doesn't even deserve a rating at all... let me illiterate:

After playing as Darth Vader, I was looking forward to playing as the speedy more cooler apprentice character. And I was right to do so, because after that part of the game I just jumped and sped my way through each and every enemy left in the game. Why you ask, because the battle system is so annoying.

Not only are the enemies you fight mostly clones of other enemies, their attacks always leave you stunned allowing them to combo hit you... which isn't so bad, but most of the time you don't have a way of escaping that. Your attacks stun them for a tiny short time which usually doesn't let you do anything but just take hits. The game gives you loads of health so you don't die very often, but that's not an excuse for poor gameplay.

You haven't got attacks that strike multiple foes (unless you count the electricity which isn't what I'm on about here) at once, although they keep teaming up on you. As a Jedi, knocking these guys should be a quick painless task, but it's not. This is made worse by the fact that the game has no way of telling you if you've actually hit anyone because they just keep moving like as if your light saber was a flashlight or something. They have no CLEARLY definable states i.e blocking, attacking, open etc... which makes it hard to know when to strike, leading to really stupid situations where you take hit after hit.

I won't even talk about the force powers and how it's targeting sucks, and I won't say anything about the God Of War style button presses with the bosses... those two are complete and utter disappointments.

The two things that I liked about the game that kept me going were the graphics which has a sick lighting engine (yes I'm a graphics whore) and the story... although it wasn't told in a very good way, it felt like it jumped too much in between gameplay. Not too fussed about the music or sound, because hey it's Star Wars man. These positives don't make up for the negatives though, since you can probably watch all the cutscenes from the game somewhere online, so am not even going to consider them.

But yeah, playing this game was annoying on every part, almost forgot to mention the stupid load times for the upgrade menu, and I'll be glad to get rid of it and never look back, ever!

FINAL RATING: 0 (ZERO) I really, really don't like it... at all!