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If you love Star Wars and you love the Wii, you will love The Force Unleashed. I bought a Wii wishing for a Star Wars game where I can wield a Lightsaber with the Wii-mote and use Force powers with the Nunchuk. Well that dream has come true! Thank God Krome Studios didn't copy the next-gen versions, because this version feels more like Star Wars. The Wii version gets more film accurate powers like Choke and Force Telekinesis! There are a few other moves that are Wii exclusive as well including Force Maelstrom and Force Slam! There are directional attacks for the Lightsaber, so where ever your enemies are swing the Saber in that direction. You can even block Blaster shots back at enemies by holding the Wii remote horizontally! All the Force powers come from controlling the Nunchuk in various ways. This game actually lets you duel wield a Lightsaber and The Force! In this regard, controlling your character on screen is very satisfying. The real fun begins when you face characters that wield Sabers and Force powers like you do. Your Lightsabers will lock up just like the movies! Using Force powers on these foes will initiate their own lock ups. There are a few counter maneuvers that your character can perform in the heat of a Jedi/Sith battle.

The story is absolutely amazing. They brought in George Lucas himself to help write the story, and as a result you have a top notch tale or good versus evil. This story could very well be a film in itself.

The graphics are great. Your character looks exactly like Sam Witwer, the actor who plays Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice! Your Lightsaber sparks against other Lightsabers creating an awesome clashing visual effect! Force Lightning casts its own light in the environment. Smoke and explosions are left behind by your path of destruction. The Physics Engine is superb. There are many things to destroy besides your opponents.

The sound is great. Ben Burtt's Star Wars library is hard at work in this game. The voice acting is award-winning. The music compliments John Williams score and sets the proper mood.

The Wii gets a couple of exclusives beyond the extra moves. Krome decided that Wii owners needed more Unleashed for their buck and added a few levels. The Wii version includes a jaunt to the Jedi Temple, A visit to the seedy entertainment district of Nar Shadda, and finally a side adventure through Cloud City itself! To teach you the finer points of being a Force user, Krome has included an extensive training program. The training is not only fun, but informative. The Wii also has a Duel Mode, in which you and a friend/or enemy can battle each other using characters from the game and movies! All the moves and powers are present in the Duel Mode. There are nine different arenas to battle it out in, so the Duel Mode will extend the replayability after your finished with Story Mode.

No this game does not look or play like the next-gen versions, and it's more fun that way. There is no DMM or EUPHORIA, and it really never needed it. You can't push enemies through walls, but you can push them through statues and columns. The Wii version of The Force Unleashed is a must-own title on the console. If you ever wanted to rip debris off the walls and hurl it at Stormtroopers using the Force, this game is for you! The Force Unleashed is the definitive Star Wars experience on the Wii. Buy it!

Force Unleashed
Product was easy to purchase and showed up in the mail within a satisfactory amount of time.

Great Game! Make another!
Got this game for Christmas last year. Absolutely loved it! Took only an hour to figure out everything and after that I was on my merry way. The only bad thing about the game was that it was easily beaten in two days! I wanted a longer lasting game. At least this gives them the opportunity to create a new game!

TFU has its fair share of flaws, but it hits home where it really matters for a Star Wars game
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (TFU) was a long time in the making. We waited quite a while for this thing to finally land on store shelves, and now we have seen just how powerful the Force can be. The title speaks for itself; you truly haven't seen anything quite like this in Star Wars before. TFU has some flaws, but those can't stop players from enjoying the fantastic story and ultra fun gameplay that lies beneath.

(Spoilers in this paragraph!) TFU has one of the greatest stories ever told in a Star Wars game. You take on the role of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller. The beginning of the game has you following Vader's commands and accomplishing such tasks as killing Jedi and proving your abilities to your master, but after a drastic turning point in the story, you go on to form the Rebel Alliance and eventually fight against Vader and the Emperor. The story is full of deception, has a few crazy plot twists, and is also very well written. It's easily up to the standard of a Star Wars film; in fact, they should definitely get started with a movie.

The story fits perfectly into the Star Wars storyline, actually it's so short (ending at 6-7 hours) that it would almost have been better off being a movie in the first place. The level design is almost reminiscent of a motion picture as well. Each level involves running through both familiar and previously unknown Star Wars planets, destroying all enemies in sight to reach the end of a level, and concluding with an epic battle against a Jedi or oversized enemy. The levels are long but few; again one of the game's flaws is just how short it is. The level design also gets repetitious as you visit several places more than once and even within each visit it feels like areas are reused, leaving you to ask yourself, "Didn't I just see this room 5 minutes ago?" There are also heaps of glitches and limitations; invisible walls restrain you from going to many areas that look like they're wide open for exploration. In reality, though, you have to stick to the path the level lays out for you, with very little freedom to wander around. Also taking into account that you can't revisit a planet whenever you like and you have a game following a very linear pattern, similar to a movie. It's the exact same thing every time you go back through it.

The gameplay, however, is fun enough to make up for the limitations the level design creates. TFU is essentially an action game, and in this sense there are few limitations. When you approach an enemy, you have tons of options as to how to kill it. You could always just run up and slash it to bits with your lightsaber, but what's the fun in that? Why not pick him up and slam him to the ground, throw him at something, choke him, throw him off a cliff, throw other objects at him, push him away, or let go and pound some lightning through him? There's an astounding variety of fighting techniques and abilities at your disposal, and it's a blast to use as many as you can recall. The upgrade system is great too, and makes you able to create even more destruction and dispose of enemies with even less effort.

The lack of effort, though, also makes the game very easy. The first time you play through you may die a few times, but when you die you go right back to the last checkpoint with all damage you've done to enemies still in place. Actually, it's impossible to lose, so anyone looking for some kind of challenge won't find it here: TFU is a really easy game. The gameplay is fun enough to keep you entertained, though, despite the lack of difficulty.

TFU for Wii has fun but slightly flawed controls to keep you immersed in the action. Yes, it is indeed a waggle-fest with the remote as Starkiller's lightsaber, but it's hard to realize what you yourself are doing when the action on screen is just so cool. The only problem with lighsaber combat is blocking; it took me until halfway through my second playthrough to figure out how it works (the game doesn't explain the motion very well). The Force abilities are pretty under control aside from a couple nunchuk issues: Force choke (which is done by picking up an enemy and holding the nunchuk upside-down) doesn't really work unless you have a few seconds to spare to get the position right, and hurling an enemy to the ground also requires a pretty significant movement of the controller. Other than that, though, the controls enhance the game's enjoyment factor considerably by putting you closer to the action than if you were just pressing buttons.

The combat is really what makes TFU so much fun to play, and there's only a couple other gameplay mechanics besides. There are plenty of lightsaber duels and epic battles against foes much bigger than you, and those can be quite impressive. Some situations (such as lightsaber clashes) throw you into a short minigame of matching the angle of the remote or nunchuk to what is shown on screen, then flinging the controller forward. It works pretty nicely and it's kind of fun to do; it's actually a cool way to do a little damage to the enemy. These boss battles are pretty epic, and the finishing moves are really awesome as well. Unfortunately you have to concentrate so much on which controller to wave that it's hard to pay attention to the action during those epic sequences.

Even seen TFU on an Xbox or PS3? It looks pretty stunning, doesn't it? Do you think there was any effort put into the Wii version's graphics at all, then? If you said yes... well, let's just say you're wrong. TFU on Wii has pretty mediocre graphics. Nothing looks very sharp (except Force Lightning), there are plenty of level design glitches that have become Nintendo trademarks (in my mind at least), and it just doesn't look too lively. Objects you can't throw or push stay put and don't even sway in the wind, a feature that would be very welcome especially on the overgrown planet of Felucia. The lack of visual quality also hurts the action and cutscenes as it makes everything look more fake than it should. All in all TFU should (and could) have better graphics; they just look like a lazy effort.

What TFU lacks in graphics it makes up for in sound quality. Like just about all of the other Star Wars games out there, every sound effect from swinging a lightsaber to using the Force is pretty sharp and clear. The sound really helps the game as a whole, with explosions and such having a lot of power to them and creating a better atmosphere than the graphics alone could make. Also adding to the Star Wars atmosphere is the fantastic music. I mean, would we expect any less from John Williams' Star Wars score? The only flaw in the sound I would say is in the voice acting. It's definitely not cheesy or anything, but very frequently you encounter lines that are well written but could have been much better said.

There is also a multiplayer mode in TFU, but it's very glitchy and confusing. Half the time things are happening and neither you or your opponent know what's going on, and all the game mechanics that work well in the single player mode don't seem to function correctly. For example, those minigames of lining up the nunchuk and swinging it I mentioned earlier don't work at all, and when you win those duels you have no idea why. One good thing about it is that there are tons of characters to choose from, and all of them are unlocked by the end of the story. The multiplayer mode was definitely a glitchy afterthought, although it can be somewhat enjoyable to play with your extraordinary Force powers against a human opponent.

Yes, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has its fair share of flaws. The graphics aren't so sharp, it's a short and easy game, and there are lots of sad limitations, but do those things totally take away from the fantastic, well-written story, booming sound and music, and ultra fun gameplay? Absolutely not. TFU is certainly not perfect, but it hits home where it matters for a Star Wars game, and that's what makes it great.

Positive:
+ fantastic story
+ very well written dialogue
+ destroying everything in sight is a blast
+ tons of abilities to unlock and enhance
+ controls are fun despite a few flaws
+ sharp sound effects and awesome music

Negative:
- very short and easy
- lots of limitations on exploration
- graphics could be much better
- voice acting isn't quite on par with the writing
- controls have a couple issues

pretty fun!
My son age 10, loves this game. Its pretty advanced and may get better as he gets older. You really have the most furn with the sabers and in the dark! If you go thru all the tutorials on how to play its awsome. Being hes ten, he just went straight to duel. Story mode and the graphics are also first rate!