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Delve into "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II" by LucasArts, released 13 years ago today. Explore its gameplay, narrative, and lasting impact on the saga
Following Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's conquest, it's the prime time to resurrect the Force-fueled action of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Coming soon on the UE4 Engine, preorder to guarantee access to the Force Stutter ability available exclusively on PC before it gets removed after the launch window.
I am not a Star Wars fan but I enjoyed the Force Unleashed and the sequel. Shadows of the Empire was another Star Wars game I also enjoyed.
I had Shadows of the Empire on N64 and I used to finish that game basically weekly. LOVED that game.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed took the Star Wars setting from a Space Opera to a Shonen anime, and did lasting damage to the franchise as a whole.
Then came Jedi: Fallen Order to revive it.
Jedi Survivor is truly amazing to experience, nothing better out there when it comes to Star Wars games.
That's a bit of a stretch. I loved the game, it was an amazing action filled pack and you could do so much weird shit (admittedly the sequel wasn't as great). However, under no point did I ever have any trouble separating it from Star Wars canon. The game has exagerated force powers because it's fun, everyone knows it's not lore-accurate. It's the same as the final boss of The Matrix game. The game almost ends as the movie, but then we get a message from the Wachowski sisters, explaingin how a the martyr ending works great for a movie... but a game should feel more epic, so instead you get to face a final mega Smith formed from all his clones. My point being, people can separate the epic exagerations of a game from the more grounded rules of canon/lore.
Edit: Just to add, that I aknowledge The Rise of Skywalker was a shitshow, but there were millions of other reasons for that, TFU is hardly to blame there...
Starkiller - the original Mary Sue (after Luke Skywalker bent a molten blaster bolt around a corner, and through a tiny hole in The Death Star, while flying an X-wing in space. And all despite having next to no training in how to use The Force.)
It did help ruin the franchise, but it was already ruined by silly novels and badly-thought-out comic book adaptations. The EU did enough damage to the universe that the trajectory was bound to hit “JEDI SUPERHERO WHO CAN WRESTLE STAR DESTROYERS OUT OF THE SKY” territory.
It’s part of why The Force Unleashed and The Last Jedi had such a negative backlash. The Force Unleashed copied and pasted the structure of A New Hope, which was enough for some people to buy, but I heard countless musings from people, whining that the characters were not as jumpy or powerful as Starkiller - with Starkiller being the one character mentioned for reference. The Last Jedi, for some people, is their favourite Star Wars film, for others, it wasn’t. What I didn’t like about TLJ’s backlash is how much people were moaning about it being different to the rest of the franchise, when it is about as derivative as The Force Awakens was.
"after Luke Skywalker bent a molten blaster bolt around a corner, and through a tiny hole in The Death Star, while flying an X-wing in space. And all despite having next to no training in how to use The Force."
Not to mention having next to no experience in piloting a fighter
Both TFU games have been bad Star Wars game since they don't reflect the SW universe lore very well.... Saying that there ware worse games doesn;t make these two any better.
Guess it's time to accept that the days of the good SW games was the 90's and earlt 00s - since then they've become progressively less SW and more generic with SW license slapped on :/
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personally I think FU II is a great starwars game, my guess is due to the game being quite difficult alot of little girls are having a paddy about it as they want something nice and easy to play. poor wittle babies
I quite enjoyed Rebel Assault II and I quite like TFU games as well.
I agree that Masters Of Teras Kasi was a big pile of pants. I remember playing that in my younger years and thinking 'why the hell would these characters be fighting each other'?
I want another Battlefront dammit! Those are some great Star Wars games!
On an article note, it would have been good to see some screenshots as not everyone would have played them and it helps see how truly rubbish some of those games are.
BRING BACK THE JEDI - KNIGHT SERIES OF GAMES!
i think its the first big boss in TFU2, its awesome set piece. Its a creature so big it makes Rancors look like small dogs compared to it, it even eats one ffs!. fantastic bit of gaming, still not half way through i dont think and loving it. also worth noting that its got a better script, visuals and story line than any of the prequel movies. i want to see TFU movie. BUY it, its well worth it, as I said its a quite a tricky game not a piece of pi$£ like most games recently.