Star Wars – Force still on it’s leash

At least that’s the impression I was left with by the time I’d finished the game. The Force that the Apprentice wields is very impressive at times, blasting open huge metal doors and throwing Tie Fighters around. However, you’re still left with the impression that they could do more. His powers are shown to be truly amazing in the quick time events and cut scenes, where he can crush AT-STs into a small metal box, and control the descent of a Star Destroyer, and things like that only serve to further your disappointment that you can’t do things like that in the actual game. I suppose if you could it would make things far too easy, but you’re still disappointed nonetheless.

The game itself was pretty good, besides the 2 glitches I had (more on that below). The story was good and ties things together nicely, without ever being really shocking with the details it reveals. I was hoping we’d get some deep story with a twist that changes the way you look at the story, but I guess Lucas would be running the risk of annoying a lot of fans by changing too much. The action was pretty non-stop, and it’s a game where you can use the achievements to help make it a more varied game. As I said 2 posts down, you can vary the gameplay by going for the various kill achievements using all your different powers. This forces you to not rely on one particular power and definitely adds some nice variation. The levels are all very linear (which I don’t mind so much, there’s plenty of open world games around if that’s what I want), but they’re all very pretty to look at and most definitely have a Star Wars feel to them.

Now onto the glitches. The first was easily the most annoying, and is pretty common. Partway through the game, it stopped giving me bonus objectives, instead showing “*Default Text” in its place. This glitch also causes the game to stop tracking your holocron collections, and your force power kills (it still counts who you kill, just not how). It means I couldn’t get the achievement for collecting all the holocrons, nor could I get any more “Kill 100 people with force lightning” style achievements. It was pretty annoying to be honest. I wasn’t playing the game solely for the achievements, as I did find it enjoyable, but I was purposely collecting all the holocrons and there was no point in the end.

The other glitch I had was right at the end. I finished off the final battle, choosing the good ending, and right as the final movie was about to play, the game froze and I had to reset my Xbox. Thankfully I still had the achievement for finishing the game, and for the good ending, but I hadn’t unlocked the movie, and the game still had my last continue point before the final battle. I decided to do it again, this time going for the evil ending, and got the achievement for that as well. For once a glitch managed to work in my favour.

Overall I did enjoy it, and I’ll definitely be renting it again in the future, but only when it’s been patched and I know I can get the achievements without it glitching on me. Hopefully that patch is already being worked on.