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The review's a love letter for bombmexico by Lizard_King 09/18/2008, 6:13am PDT
He's referring to the specific quality of the fight/impact animations. What's so bad about that? Here's a fun quote for you.
Tom Chick wrote:

Instead, The Force Unleashed relies mostly on Force powers, unlocked by a desultory and superficial role-playing game system.

But these Force powers are almost single-handedly scuttled by the lack of a functional way to target them. Picture Vader in the conference room in "Star Wars," raising his hand to choke the guy and then delivering the line, "I find your lack of faith disturbing." Now imagine if he raised his hand and instead accidentally crushed the speakerphone in the center of the conference table. Awkward. Would he pretend he meant to do that? Or would he fumble around and try again, destroying more appliances and furniture in the process before eventually choking the faithless guy? Because that's what would happen in The Force Unleashed. It's inexcusable that you're given these awesome powers to use in a mostly good physics engine, but you're left to fumble around and hope the right thing gets targeted when you want to Force Lift it, Force Push it, Force Grasp it, Force Lightning it, Force Throw Your Lightsaber at it, or Force Rush it. As it is, it's all a lot of Force Suck.


How about it? Are you excited yet? Here's the part preceding "the Force Leashed"

It begins promisingly enough, with an intoxicating sense of power. Things break obligingly and nothing can stand in your way for very long. You get a glorious sense of how great the Dark Side of the Force is for just breaking stuff. But as the game progresses, the designers grasp awkwardly for ways to curtail your abilities. It's the standard power progression of a videogame, but inverted. Instead of getting more powerful, you get less powerful. You're facing Stormtroopers with glowing "can't grab me!" shields, Felucian Warriors with lightsaber-blocking cutlasses, or quasi-impossible bosses immune to your best tricks. In fact, the boss fights are humbling experiences in having no idea what works and what doesn't. You die and try again, waiting until you manage to hit on something the impervious bosses don't feel like shrugging off. As the game world shuts down your back of tricks, you feel weaker and weaker.


That sounds a lot like stuff most normal people were able to predict from the demo. You are still buying this, right? Still dying to force push some flower petals?
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Is it possible to review TFU without comparing it to Assassin's Creed? by Jerry Whorebach 09/18/2008, 4:18am PDT NEW
    I guess I don't read enough game reviews, since I don't know of any game reviewe NT by Fullofkittens 09/18/2008, 5:53am PDT NEW
    The review's a love letter for bombmexico by Lizard_King 09/18/2008, 6:13am PDT NEW
        Me? Of course I'm not buying it, I fucking hate Star Wars. by Jerry Whorebach 09/18/2008, 12:59pm PDT NEW
            Have you ever yelled NOOOOOOOOOO.... in space? NT by Jon Stewart 09/18/2008, 2:08pm PDT NEW
            No, I was referring specifically to BM by Lizard_King 09/18/2008, 3:40pm PDT NEW
        You missed the best quote by FABIO 09/18/2008, 1:30pm PDT NEW
            tom chick's writing gauge by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/18/2008, 2:02pm PDT NEW
                Psh, gameplay isn't writing (unless you're Portal). NT by Jerry Whorebach 09/18/2008, 2:13pm PDT NEW
                    which is why chick was talking about the writing and I commented on it but thx f NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/18/2008, 2:27pm PDT NEW
                        You clearly mentioned me. NT by GAMEPLAY 09/18/2008, 2:34pm PDT NEW
                            WE HAVE FINALLY CAUGHT THIS RETARD ONCE AND FOR ALL SOMEONE GET THE ROPES NT by not trolled 09/18/2008, 3:21pm PDT NEW
                                Yeah huh huh go Creexuls we'll back them up with endless anonymous posts yeah NT by not an ass grabbing sycophant 09/18/2008, 7:06pm PDT NEW
                                    Well that's good to know. ^_^ NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 09/18/2008, 7:11pm PDT NEW
                                    I'm pretty sure the only one of us who ISN'T a creexul sycophant is BDR NT by and he's dead (to me, dead TO ME) 09/18/2008, 7:11pm PDT NEW
                                        Especially if bdr was a fireman somewhere on the east coast. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 09/18/2008, 7:14pm PDT NEW
                                    We probably will. Tell me you're not dumb enough to have a problem with that. NT by I need clarification 09/18/2008, 7:15pm PDT NEW
                                    its easy to back up people who are objectively correct NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/18/2008, 11:21pm PDT NEW
                            I also mentioned this game in another thread, go read that before posting again NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/18/2008, 4:35pm PDT NEW
        This game sucks. by bombMexico 09/22/2008, 5:59pm PDT NEW
            Re: This game sucks. by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/22/2008, 6:17pm PDT NEW
            Re: This game sucks. by Lizard_King 09/22/2008, 11:52pm PDT NEW
                GUYS GUYS GUYS let's keep our eyes on the prize here okay? by Jerry Whorebach 09/23/2008, 2:09am PDT NEW
                Re: This game sucks. by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/23/2008, 4:17am PDT NEW
        Re: The review's a love letter for bombmexico by Jimmy! 10/07/2008, 8:47am PDT NEW
            Re: The review's a love letter for bombmexico by Mischief Maker 10/07/2008, 11:33am PDT NEW
    PSI OPS NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/18/2008, 12:09pm PDT NEW
 
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