At it's core Star Wars: The Force Unleased 2 is a typical hack and slash type of game. Input your Star Wars force powers and you get something that is unlike anything you've ever seen before, that is unless you played the first game in this series. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed every moment I spent playing this game, but there are times when you tend to think, "Didn't I just do this, but with a different backround?" The answer to this question is almost always "yes" but you tend to overlook that when you are having fun blasting stormtroopers off of bridges with your supercharged force push or when you use jedi mind tricks to make a stormtrooper shoot his buddy in the face.
Let's get to the real meaty stuff of the review now that we have all that out of the way. First, we will start with story. The story is a very simple one, you are once again in the role of Starkiller, Darth Vaders' superpowered apprentice. Vader tells you that you are a clone and you don't believe him at first, I mean who would? You soon escape his grasp before he tries to kill you after telling you that you are not worthy of being his apprentice and are a failed experiment. After escaping you make your way around the galaxy to find Juno, your love interest, you may remember her from the first game. Starkillers journey to find Juno and kill Vader takes you to familiar places. The story is not strong, but it is not full of plot holes like I figured it might be when I first started playing it. The story was a very engaging one for not being that strong of a storyline and impressed me as much as I think a game of this caliber could.
Next, the gameplay. As I said before, TFU2 is at it's core a hack and slash game with a few force powers thrown in. You find that once you max out all your force powers and saber skills that you become some type of unstoppable death machine hellbent on killing stormtroopers with ease. This is really fun, for the first play through. After that it becomes repetitive. Finding new crystals to unlock different colored sabers with different abilities is fun, but what makes it a pain to unlock is that to get the 2nd crystal to unlock both sabers being a different color with a different ability is you have to complete challenges that aren't too easy to beat. I know I shouldn't complain, at least there is some challenge in the game. But at times it becomes ridiculously hard to kill 100 enemies with just force powers. Overall I think the gameplay could have been refined some.
Finally, the graphics. For not having the best gameplay ever, the graphics in TFU2 are amazing. In HD the backdrops and force powers look extra incredible and it sometimes looks too good to be true. You have to imagine with all the money poured into these types of games that the graphics are going to be top notch. And the cinematics look even more spectacular than the regular gameplay, but it doesn't deter from the fact that the in game graphics look amazing.
Final verdict: If you are looking for a fun, easy, one play through game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 is your game. You won't spend countless hours with this one, as it is a very short game, but you can enjoy it, just remember to try and mix up how you kill those stormtroopers!
Story: 7
Gameplay: 5
Graphics: 10
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