{"id":254,"date":"2008-10-13T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/star-wars-the-force-unleashed-review\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:23:00","slug":"star-wars-the-force-unleashed-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/star-wars-the-force-unleashed-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}