I finished Star Wars: The Force Unleashed yesterday. Overall I’d recommend it as a rental. It is about 11 or 12 hours for a single play through and there is no multiplayer so I would not recommend buying it. However, it was fun enough to be worth playing through once. Plus it has a pretty cool story that you get to go through. I’ll not spoil the story for you, but it was worth it for me as a casual fan of Star Wars to go get to play through the story.

The game itself it pretty fun, but has some technical issues that are annoying. While jumping around and fighting is pretty fun I found the camera controls frustrating. The right stick controls the camera, but you have to use the A, B, X, and Y buttons to fight. In a lot of large open rooms this is frustrating because enemies are on all sides of you, but you can’t easily attack them and look around at the same time. After a while you just get use to the fact people will be behind you and there us nothing you can do but run away and then turn around.

In addition to the camera the game hiccups occasionally. I noticed it mostly when I’d send an enemy flying really far away and then when they’d hit a wall way off in the distance the game would pause for a second. Then it would just continue like nothing was wrong. The first couple times I thought my 360 was dying or the disk was scratched, but after a couple levels I realized it was the game. It also does the same pause for a second whenever you get an achievement and it pops up the little notification of the achievement. Not a huge deal, but a bit annoying.

Like I mentioned before I would recommend renting SW:TFU. It is too short to be worth buying, but the story is really good and the game is pretty fun.