Good story, great atmosphere, but the control ...

"The Force Unleashed" is a well-made, straight action game with a good story, fine graphics and lots of atmosphere. As Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice is carried out missions to prove his skills and perhaps soon to challenge Vader's side the Emperor and then discontinued if the fate intervenes ...

You fight with the power and lightsaber by more optically impressive, linear structure level, from the jungle world on the planet scrap through to the Death Star, and learned gradually getting new skills or strengthen the existing power. The charm of the game lies in the fact that one has more than two dozen skills and maneuvers with which you hurl opponents through the air shock with power flashes or powerful special strokes can to its knees. Used intelligently it can hardly be an opponent a chance. And by the interplay of great skills, different enemy types and dense atmosphere to dive beautifully into the game.

Often you will also torn rudely, and thus we come to the unpleasant part of "The Force Unleashed": The control. While there is no problem, the new abilities to remember gradually and use them specifically with mouse and keyboard shortcuts, it often reacts too slowly. Can be felt especially in the multiple opponents or boss battles, if you right now needs a certain combination, but the keystroke really implements the game only after half a second in an act - a disadvantage to not have the computer opponents. Especially in the Boss Fights at the end of each level there is often at moments, and then already makes considerable frustration wide, if you have the combination clearly recognized before the enemy, but then countered anyway of his later initiated action. Getting used to is the target acquisition, the very nearby enemies completely ignored and sometimes even at a set fixation on the enemy from time to jump away, so you can not always reliable attack enemies. In addition, the game now and then commands "swallowed" and simply fail to actions. Especially with the highest game difficulty stronger opponents are thereby a gamble, even if you have mastered the game and the tactics perfectly.

So it is then that you inevitably often see the loading screen, because the built-in speed penalty has struck again. Unfortunately, the game saves only with certain memory points - manual back up is indeed offered, but also does nichs else; between some savepoints to hang thereby to simply eternal. This combined with the partially stupid Boss Fights, which is best evades much and few skills used (against the other is the computer opponents often immune) and the opponent can not beat about through the skillful mastery of the lightsaber and the power combinations, the weaknesses are this otherwise outstanding game. That's why only four stars instead of five - but the four's, because it is incredibly a lot of fun, which use many skills of his character sent.