To me that's the best part. Really liked the first game but I just wanted the sequel to be over. Really disliked both the gameplay and story unfortunately.
Not only short but lacking content and extremely repetitive ( which is jarring for a 4 hour game) which felt like a rushed product and a scam for the consumer. ( and yes it was). It's more like an expansion pack than a real sequel. Despite that the base gameplay was very fun'to me. But yeah what a waste...
The main problems i had with TFU2 is that it felt more like a demo then the fall game. I remember getting it the day it came out and got to Death Vader thinking how is Starkiller going to escape and why are we fighting Vader this early in the game........somehow it was already the last boss. Traded the game back the same day.
There's also the price tag to life span ratio to take into consideration. The force unleashed 2 was marketed as a full game, with the length of a DLC Jedi survivor, despite its technical flaws upon release, was marketed as a full game and WAS a full game, longer even than its predecessor. That may not have anything to do with a good "sequel" but it impacts generally what one might consider a good "game"
Really, the biggest complaint about The Force Unleashed 2 to my knowledge is how short it was. Not only was each level shorter than the first game, but there were for levels less than the first game, not counting DLC. If counting DLC, then the first game has seven more levels than The Force Unleashed 2, with The Force Unleashed 1 having a total of seventeen with DLC taken into account and The Force Unleashed 2 with only ten.
dude they have 9 MONTHS to make THE ENTIRE GAME! do you have any idea how absurdly short this development time is? dude, ZELDA MAJORAS MASK UTILIZING AS MUCH ASSETS THEY COULD NEED A ENTIRE YEAR TO BE PLAYABLE!!! 9 MONTHS IS AN ABUSRD AMOUNT OF TIME and with so low time what they come with WAS AMAZING!
Other examples of great Star Wars sequels include battlefront 2 2005 and KOTOR 2 imo. Both added to and enhanced their previous iterations, though KOTOR 2 was hampered by rushed timeline and having to cut out a lot, but it’s superb w restored content mod imo
@@Subzerobyrdagreed after playing it it became my favorite game ever. KOTOR is also great but I prefer KOTOR 2. The restored content mod just enhances things imo
@@Nerdstorm003agreed the writing characters ambiance dialogue story and music are all brilliant imo. I think the restored content mod makes it even better tho
You should watch Sam Witwer and David Collins livestream with the devs of Force Unleashed. In the final stream they had Hayden Blackman on and he discusses the early ideas he had for Force Unleashed 3
I think time has not really been kind on the Force Unleashed games but they really were unique Star Wars games that we haven't seen anything like since and I would've liked to see Starkiller's story conclude
@@OvertheHedge06 absolutely loving the force unleashed 2 just for the physics. I'm happy they killed the series rather than do an ubisoft and convert assassins creed into witcher 2 and trying (while failing) to appeal to gen z
Force Unleashed 2 is still an example of a game having a short rushed development cycle, which then drastically affects the final products length and quality. Regardless, I really do wish we could continue the story of Starkiller.
I wanted to see a conclusion, but after I heard they considered incorporated into Filoni's fan fiction, I definitely think starkiller's narrative is best left untainted by the Disney/Fioloni era.
Filoni’s “fan fiction”, whatever he does is canon rather you like it or not. It’s funny when I see comments like that, then people say what they would do if they worked for Star Wars… and it ends up being the worse things I’ve ever heard come to mind lol.
A lot of the force combos from FU1 were also absent in FU2 … so gameplay got repetitive because I wasn’t forcing myself to memorize different combos and trying them as I killed hordes of enemies
even for an NES GAME this was a short development time, what they done with so short time was amazing! even majoras mask reutilizing as much assets they could they need a entire year for make the game works, is amazing how much they do with so short time
@@ChristVagabond004 force unleashed was planed to be a multimedia franchise with multiple chapters since the begining so they already have a script planed since the first game
Well, TFU2 has all these weird plot-elements not for the obviousness... Galen "Starkiller" Marek didn't found the alliance, he laid out the basics (as a ruse for the Empire) and saw it wiped at the end of TFU1. It was truly founded after his death by his friends and allies in his name with the crest of his family. He had no idea they survived all that and continued, especially given that he as a clone was created after all that. Rahm Kota wasn't a slave on Cato Nemoidia for fun, he got captured and in typical Jedi fashion decided to sit it out until an opportinuty arose that he deemed Force-sent enough to be the reason behind his capture. He didn't go to Juno right away because the galaxy is vast and he had no lead on her, her being an elusive rebel.
Could be one of the more powerful Inquisitors (First Brother, idk), and eventually progress beyond that and become a full-fledged apprentice of Vader, as a justification for being a constant and ever-increasing threat to Cal.
I think there should have been just one TFU game. A sort of mix of both with their best qualities. The Graphics of 2, a mix of the two for the gameplay, the scenario of 1 with elements of 2, etc...
It's incredible how beautiful Force Unleashed 2 looks. Considering it was Lucasarts' final game before they were annihilated, and it had a shoestring development length, it pays lots of attention to visual detail, looking incredible on the xbox 360! Jedi Survivor doesn't do art style nearly as well, having all the resources in the world but somehow looking far less realistic.
Unironically I prefer The Force Unleashed 2 to Jedi Survivor. Jedi Survivor is very boring for me, which is weird, because I liked Fallen Order. Maybe "Souls" copy games are just becoming stale.
jedi survivor no even a question. it just did everything right a sequel should have done respawn did it justice. I am also surprised you didnt talk about the disney issue that also happened at that time
Survivor was definitely the better of the two. I felt like TFU2 was lacking in a lot of places, and the way they had you ATTEMPT to unlock secondary lightsaber colors was outrageous. Survivor had slow moments, but I still enjoyed it from start to finish.
Interestingly I happen the opposite initial reaction, absolutely loved unleashed 2 , got collector's edition at lauch on the ps3, was so cool to finally be able to play out the awesome god powers we saw on the big screen, and had also survivor at lauch but for the pc and ea really didn't give a shit, buggy mess, frequent crashes, breaks in gameplay, visual bugs, instability, and i was running on a rtx3080, shame what kind of presentation has become acceptable, sure updates and patches have made the game playable and fun since launch but that sour first impression has me feeling worse about survivor than fallen order at times, that games biggest flaw was cosmetic limits, poncho looks dumb.
I really try so hard to understand why you guys think force unleashed 2 is bad but I just can't understand no matter how much I try, and I even play the game in multiple plataforms but even then I just can't understand, this game is just so AMAZING!
my name is in the video, i can get through another week my main gripe about TFUII is that it was incredibly short compared to the first one and felt like there was less to do on each level compared to the first one
I love general kota. I wish they did something with him. He’s a man that had known nothing but war constantly. The force unleashed has a goofy story but kota has to be one of my favorite take aways from it. I could totally see a rahm kota post dark empire trying to come to terms with his position in life. Whether he wants to keep fighting or if he’s ready to finally retire
I really thought Jedi Fallen Order was a much better story than Survivor was, but the gameplay was better once I got used to the combat timing being different from the first game.
I love force unleashed 2. Sure it is short and has problems but it is a step up from the first one and if it had been given the attention, it would have made a great game
@@thatguyfromA6915 In terms of Gameplay ( even if some elements are repetitive) and Graphics perhaps, but the story is frustrating anyway, compared to the first.
@@tibsky1396even gameplay tbh was better in 1. There were more trooper types which meant the game was more fun and challenging. And you had more control over your abilities while 2 makes them all really overpowered at the cost of how well they played. For example, force grip in 1 let you choose if you lift 1 or more enemies. In 2, if you upgraded it, you'll always grip more than 1 enemy if possible.
Problem with all Star Wars stuff trying to fit between Sith and New Hope is there are only abkut 20 years to squeeze things into. I mean, as a casual star wars fan, 20 years is not a long time for a GALACTIC sized empire to really have a lot of effects never mind have a lot of complex rebellion stuff make organic sense
I wish Star Wars Force Unleashed could come back with new game mechanics and more open word like gameplay where we could emerge more into different combos powers and more free action towards our progress which might effect the game in different ways and more hidden ester eggs and plot twist added to make a great game.
I can faithfully say that Jedi Survivor is one of the best Star Wars games I've ever played, it improved on everything that Fallen Order did right and fixed nearly everything it did wrong, the slower pacing of the narrative to focus in heavily on character motivations with brief spurts of excitement to keep the stakes up and tensions raised before unraveling it's true machinations and ending with high emotions and lots of action is a very Star Wars thing to do too. Yes there are bugs, yes the performance sucks, yes the game crashes... often, but I don't regret preordering it and I definitely don't regret playing it it's genuinely such a good game that I honestly can't wait for the 3rd game The inverse of this is TFU 2, where it's nonstop it keeps throwing more and more and more at you and while it's fun on a surface level it gets dull very quickly once you realize there's very little substance there which is a shame because it does have a brilliant setup and interesting concept and most importantly an interesting question to ask about Starkiller's Clone, but it squanders it and the final battle is so boring that I actually believed it took 2 hours until I realized only 20 minutes had passed - compared to TFU1 it's such a letdown that it actually makes me hope for what I know won't come which is TFU3 just so we can get the follow-up the first game truly deserves, rather than excitement to see how it'll expand on the second game
Jedi Survivor failed horribly on the villains. Dagan Gera is a one-note bratty child with no nuance outside of "Muh Tanalorr", and Bode's betrayal was telegraphed from the trailers, and by the time it happened, they made him way too unredeemable to remotely care for him.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 Bode is literally your best pal, he even wants Cal to join him and does everything for his daughter it sounds like you read a synopsis on the game and then responded to 1/4 of my comment with such a small amount of criticism towards a game that is genuinely amazing in order to make yourself sound smarter, go troll somewhere else
@@TheJediMasterPro He's a literal walking red flag. Yeah, best bud you just met on Coruscant, they even say it in-game. There's nothing more unsubtle than forcing a "new best buddy" character into a sequel without expecting people to be suspicious. If you think calling out an aspect of a game you like so much is trolling, you need to work on your reading comprehension. Notice I didn't pick on anything else because I actually like the gameplay, but the villains were so bad, they dragged down the story. A lot. Get real.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 your reading comprehension definitely needs work what I replied with was that responding to 1/4 of my comment with a small criticism in order to make yourself seem smarter, which is EXACTLY what you did, is trolling, and no it really isn't a red flag its done often without there being a betrayal, stop trying you're just embarrassing yourself now
@@TheJediMasterPro Because copypasting the same thing you just posted is peak intelligence. I wasn't even attacking you, but the moment I dared say something bad your all time favorite game, you got protective. And yes, it's a red flag, GoldenEye did it. Frozen did it. Zootopia did it. After a while, it gets easy to spot. You're embarassing yourself by acting so unreasonably aggressive.
Jedi Survivor is my favorite Star Wars game. But I lament what happened with Force Unleashed 2. Wish the devs could have gotten the two year dev time they said they needed. A cool alternate timeline could have been getting Battlefront 3 in 2009. The Force Unleashed 2 in 2011 or 2012. Getting First Assault in 2013 followed by Star Wars 1313 in 2014. Oh well.
I really dont agree, while I played neither. Force Unleased has a better story, if you end the first game when Starkiller dies in the middle of the game and continue as a clone in Unleashed 2. Dont have any fix for Jedi Survivor, its just bad.
the thing is the force unleashed 2 was made in one year and had a lot of tecnical issues and stll was decent to play. i like survival but the lack of more dismenberment and A GOD DEAM ROBE WITH A HOOD makes me put it way behind.
We need another KOTOR like Star Wars game. One that takes places far away from the timeline we're all kind of sick of. I don't care if we go far into the past or future, just get away from the Fall of the Republic/Empire.
I have the 1st Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I Had it for PSP & I loved how you can duel & I liked how you can cheat code. But the Force Unleashed for Switch took that out
The reason for this is because the Switch is a re-release of the Wii version, which was the same as the PlayStation 2 only with an added multiplayer duel mode. The PSP is a crunched down port of the Wii/PS2 version with a *lot* more content.
I miss my PSP I had Batman Forever on it ... I had all these games... but like everything's gone now. I was stupid & updated my PSP to play a disk... so I lost the capability to download & play from the download's @@ahums16
TFU2 is an absolute trash game. Can't combo enemies(They have force block, teleport, resistance to your attacks or basic stormies just dies in 1 or 2 swings), force powers not accurete as first game(In first game you can throw someting blindly and you can hit something but in sequel i can't throw something to enemy 2 feet away from me), final boss was disappointment and challenge missons were hard as hell(I bet even creator of those challenges would have hard time). Yes also it is little short just like as everyone saying but I think story is not that bad but gameplay, It is too bad. Whole game is like swinging bats to stones. It had potential to surpass first game but TFU 1 is better in everyway. Honestly didn't play jedi survivor but no way i am going to say TFU2 is better or good game.
The gameplay in TFU 2 was a HUGE downgrade from TFU 1. See an enemy wielding lightsabers? Gotta kill them using Force powers and only Force powers. See a red Sith acolyte that can use Force powers and has no lightsabers? You gotta get in there and cut him up because he will deflect every single force power you throw at him. The amount of rock paper scissors BS you had to do in that game was so immersion breaking, and it pissed me off. In TFU 1 you could kill just about anything in any sort of creative way imaginable. Sure certain enemies might be resistant to a particular attack, but you could still find a dozen other ways to kill them. It felt kind of like a Prototype game toned down a bit and thrown into the Star Wars universe, and it was awesome. TFU 2 was nothing like that.
Shortness aside, I had fun with Force Unleashed 2, which something I can say I did not have Survivor due to the combat system, level design and narrative. Like all Disney era star wars, its all so soulless and overly dramatic
dude I swear I try I REALLY TRY VERY HARD to understand everything you guys say that makes force uleashed 2 ''bad'' but I just can't understand since 2010! THIS GAME IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH SINCE THIS WAS RELEASED! IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HACK N SLASH GAMES EVER AND I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE SAY THAT THIS IS A ''BAD'' GAME!!!
Force unleashed 1 can still be canon with the death ending. Force unleashed 2 on the other hand can't cause the cloning facility is destroyed in bad batch.
@@thatguyfromA6915 Noone really HATES on it. It was just a underwhelming sequel. Which it objectively was. It was way shorter than the first game, and like Flandrew said, a good sequel builds on what was good and fixes what wasn't. Force Unleashed 2 didn't do either. It's not a bad game or anything but there's just no reason to buy or play Force Unleashed 2 if you have the first part, because it simply doesn't do anything better than the first part. And not every criticism is "hate". Not every opinion you disagree with is "hate". Sometimes people just point out that a game wasn't as good as it could have been because it simply wasn't.
@@EskChan19 not to to make fun of you but you got so upset at me saying that the game gets alot of hate which is still true alot of people hate this game no matter what way you put it if you dont like something it means you in a way hate it no matter what way it is
Imho. For me Survivor completly ruined by it's forced limitations that devs implemented (like having 5 styles but you can have only 2?!?!), not allow for free aim shooting (Kyle Katarn saying Hello from 2003), stupid decisions like make Force Speed as ultimate ability, mediocre storytelling with not interested characters (except Cal and Merin Romance since I wanted it on the first game), connection to High Republic that I don't care (If believe to infographs a lot of people don't care about it too) and badly stolen things from Sekiro and Zelda that doesn't work in SW Universe and making Cal more stupid and powerless Jedi ever. I think that combinations of idea from previous SW games and more freedom for Cal of using everything (or just not to be a copy of Sekiro) would help improve game.
I can't say to much given I haven't been able to play Jedi Survivor but I can safely say that I'm a huge star wars fan and I love the Force Unleashed games and Jedi Fallen Order and they were awesome, my opinion at least.
I loved jedi survivor. Thought the story was great (insert Flandrew buuuut here) my issue with Bo's motivation at the very end made little sense. He basically wanted to kill Cal to take Talinor for himself and his daughter alone to be safe from the empire. But Cal also wanted to be safe from the empire, ok they might have had different ideas on how to do that but Bo basically died over very little difference between the 2 approaches. Also the kid really did not seem bothered her dad was dead in the post game when jetting across the galaxy. That was my only issue with the story for that one, otherwise it was really good.
@BRC1298 yeah I got that. I just didn't think think that was worth potentially dying for, or murdering people infront of his kid. Anyway it not a huge plot hole or anything just something that bugged me.
@billycurrythe2nd From Bodes POV, His daughter is literally being held as collateral by the ISB and the ISB know pretty much everywhere he would try to go in the Galaxy. Plus the head of the ISB knew Bode was a Jedi. Once his usefulness was used up and he was outed as an Ex-Jedi, he was as good as dead, and who knows what Vader would do with his Force Sensitive daughter? He needed a way out and he needed it fast. Its pretty much the only reason he sidetracks his original mission of infiltrating Cal's team. From his perspective, once Cal switched from leaving the Galaxy to training a force to fight the empire, thereby ruining the only safe hiding place from the empire, he did what he felt was the only thing he could do to protect his daughter. You know raising a force of that magnitude would cause a massive disturbance in the force and Sidious and Vader will definitely sense it and seek it out, and Bode probably figures this. He's still a dick though.
No matter how short and bland TFU2 is, it will always be a better sequel to me. Not only did they improve the combat system in every imaginable way, it actually runs properly at 60fps on pc. A game you can actually play is an infinitely better game in my opinion. Of course I'd rather just play Fallen Order than either of TFU games.
>that thumbnail Say, Flandrew? *Which of your internal organs would you say is your favorite?* I kid, I kid, but actually now that I mention it? Who would you think would win in a fight - Kyle Katarn, or Starkiller (Galen Marek)?
Obviously Starkiller. Kyle Katarn is a way better character, since Starkiller is pretty much just a 14 year olds edgy power-fantasy self-insert. He's basically like Rey, except his game wasn't terrible. Well the story was about as bad but at least the game played well. But yeah Kyle Katarn is from a grounded, traditional Shooter, while Galen Marek is from a hack and slash game. Galen Marek is SUPPOSED an unstoppable Mary Sue who cannot lose. So there's simply no debate here. That's like asking "Who would win in a fight Episode 6 Luke or Episode 1 Anakin?"
He never said that Force Unleashed 2 is bad, he said it's a bad SEQUEL. Which it is. It's a fine game if you play it standing on it's own, but if you consider it the second part of the force unleashed, what does it bring to the table that the first game didn't? When you rate a sequel the question is always, why would you play the sequel over the original? What does it do better than the original? If you were only allowed one of these two games for the rest of your life, would you chose the second one over the first one? If the second part is better than the first one, it's a good sequel, otherwise it's a bad sequel. And there's simply no reason to play Force Unleashed 2 if you already have Force Unleashed 1
Wait, is Jedi Survivor well liked? I thought it wasn't considered all that good? I mean, obviously not BAD, and obviously better than Force Unleashed 2, but nothing special.
Yeah, the Jedi games are so much better than the Force Unleashed games. But I LOVED playing the Force Unleashed 2 on the Wii. It was so fun pretending the controller was a lightsaber
TFU 2 was amusing but quick and half-assed. Survivor was well-made, well-written, fun, and impactful. They've both got their merits, but Survivor is better by every metric.
I always remember the biggest complaint about force unleashed 2 being that it was so incredibly short
Yea I recall how brief the campaign was being the main issue people had with it. Some felt the story was a bit meh and rushed also
Yh I played it and remember getting to end thinking is that it? Lol
To me that's the best part. Really liked the first game but I just wanted the sequel to be over. Really disliked both the gameplay and story unfortunately.
@SilverEye91 I thought the gameplay was fine but it shot its bolt very early on probably because it was so short.
Not only short but lacking content and extremely repetitive ( which is jarring for a 4 hour game) which felt like a rushed product and a scam for the consumer. ( and yes it was). It's more like an expansion pack than a real sequel. Despite that the base gameplay was very fun'to me. But yeah what a waste...
The main problems i had with TFU2 is that it felt more like a demo then the fall game. I remember getting it the day it came out and got to Death Vader thinking how is Starkiller going to escape and why are we fighting Vader this early in the game........somehow it was already the last boss. Traded the game back the same day.
There's also the price tag to life span ratio to take into consideration.
The force unleashed 2 was marketed as a full game, with the length of a DLC
Jedi survivor, despite its technical flaws upon release, was marketed as a full game and WAS a full game, longer even than its predecessor.
That may not have anything to do with a good "sequel" but it impacts generally what one might consider a good "game"
I grabbed Survivor on sale and it's definitely been worth it
@@Icybubba Good call, if you can get it for cheap and have something capable of running I say go for it.
Really, the biggest complaint about The Force Unleashed 2 to my knowledge is how short it was. Not only was each level shorter than the first game, but there were for levels less than the first game, not counting DLC. If counting DLC, then the first game has seven more levels than The Force Unleashed 2, with The Force Unleashed 1 having a total of seventeen with DLC taken into account and The Force Unleashed 2 with only ten.
dude they have 9 MONTHS to make THE ENTIRE GAME! do you have any idea how absurdly short this development time is? dude, ZELDA MAJORAS MASK UTILIZING AS MUCH ASSETS THEY COULD NEED A ENTIRE YEAR TO BE PLAYABLE!!! 9 MONTHS IS AN ABUSRD AMOUNT OF TIME and with so low time what they come with WAS AMAZING!
Other examples of great Star Wars sequels include battlefront 2 2005 and KOTOR 2 imo. Both added to and enhanced their previous iterations, though KOTOR 2 was hampered by rushed timeline and having to cut out a lot, but it’s superb w restored content mod imo
Despite Kotor 2 being rushed and kind of short it’s still a great game even without the restored content mod
KOTOR 2 one of the greatest games of all time regardless
@@Nerdstorm003 Fr though I wish we could get a series remake/reboot just so we can finally get a 3rd installment in the series
@@Subzerobyrdagreed after playing it it became my favorite game ever. KOTOR is also great but I prefer KOTOR 2. The restored content mod just enhances things imo
@@Nerdstorm003agreed the writing characters ambiance dialogue story and music are all brilliant imo. I think the restored content mod makes it even better tho
You should watch Sam Witwer and David Collins livestream with the devs of Force Unleashed. In the final stream they had Hayden Blackman on and he discusses the early ideas he had for Force Unleashed 3
I think time has not really been kind on the Force Unleashed games but they really were unique Star Wars games that we haven't seen anything like since and I would've liked to see Starkiller's story conclude
@@OvertheHedge06 absolutely loving the force unleashed 2 just for the physics. I'm happy they killed the series rather than do an ubisoft and convert assassins creed into witcher 2 and trying (while failing) to appeal to gen z
Force Unleashed 2 is still an example of a game having a short rushed development cycle, which then drastically affects the final products length and quality. Regardless, I really do wish we could continue the story of Starkiller.
I wanted to see a conclusion, but after I heard they considered incorporated into Filoni's fan fiction, I definitely think starkiller's narrative is best left untainted by the Disney/Fioloni era.
Filoni’s “fan fiction”, whatever he does is canon rather you like it or not. It’s funny when I see comments like that, then people say what they would do if they worked for Star Wars… and it ends up being the worse things I’ve ever heard come to mind lol.
@@jamariojackson4289 such as? any exemple?
Here corrected to you now answer the question.
@@tio_john Such* 😃
@@jamariojackson4289 answer the question.
A lot of the force combos from FU1 were also absent in FU2 … so gameplay got repetitive because I wasn’t forcing myself to memorize different combos and trying them as I killed hordes of enemies
9 months!?
Holy shit that's short
What’s shorter is the time they made the whole script, less than a month 🤦🏻♂️💀
even for an NES GAME this was a short development time, what they done with so short time was amazing! even majoras mask reutilizing as much assets they could they need a entire year for make the game works, is amazing how much they do with so short time
@@ChristVagabond004 force unleashed was planed to be a multimedia franchise with multiple chapters since the begining so they already have a script planed since the first game
Well, TFU2 has all these weird plot-elements not for the obviousness...
Galen "Starkiller" Marek didn't found the alliance, he laid out the basics (as a ruse for the Empire) and saw it wiped at the end of TFU1. It was truly founded after his death by his friends and allies in his name with the crest of his family. He had no idea they survived all that and continued, especially given that he as a clone was created after all that.
Rahm Kota wasn't a slave on Cato Nemoidia for fun, he got captured and in typical Jedi fashion decided to sit it out until an opportinuty arose that he deemed Force-sent enough to be the reason behind his capture.
He didn't go to Juno right away because the galaxy is vast and he had no lead on her, her being an elusive rebel.
TFO?
@@jackychang9148 Oops, mistyped. TFU = The Force Unleashed.
How wild would it be if Galan/Starkiller shows up in the Survivor sequel as like a reoccurring villain or something.
Could be one of the more powerful Inquisitors (First Brother, idk), and eventually progress beyond that and become a full-fledged apprentice of Vader, as a justification for being a constant and ever-increasing threat to Cal.
@@DoratTheKiller nah just bring him in as he was, secret aprentice of vader.
I think there should have been just one TFU game. A sort of mix of both with their best qualities.
The Graphics of 2, a mix of the two for the gameplay, the scenario of 1 with elements of 2, etc...
The combat in TFU2 beats every other game that has you playing as a force user.
It's incredible how beautiful Force Unleashed 2 looks. Considering it was Lucasarts' final game before they were annihilated, and it had a shoestring development length, it pays lots of attention to visual detail, looking incredible on the xbox 360! Jedi Survivor doesn't do art style nearly as well, having all the resources in the world but somehow looking far less realistic.
3:37 I actually had fun with these puzzles, didn’t find them boring at all!
Unironically I prefer The Force Unleashed 2 to Jedi Survivor. Jedi Survivor is very boring for me, which is weird, because I liked Fallen Order. Maybe "Souls" copy games are just becoming stale.
Love both of these games, but I’m still screaming for a Mandalorian game - it NEEDS to happen.
Same. Dream scenario for me is them taking all the old 1313 assets and storyline, swap in Din Djarin for Boba Fett, and finish the game
@@thedoctor4327That sounds actually terrible. Star Wars games need to get gritty again, not some campy boring half baked rpg
@@victorraymond3420They still are gritty.
It already exists, its called Bounty Hunter
@@plasmawarper5837 Not if you’re on Xbox, they haven’t made it backwards compatible yet 😔.
Forced unleashed 2 was awesome back in the day and there was nothing else like it, i loved it.
Just because you love it doesn't mean it's good
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 Good is not an objective quality. If you think it is bad, that doesn't make it bad.
jedi survivor no even a question. it just did everything right a sequel should have done respawn did it justice. I am also surprised you didnt talk about the disney issue that also happened at that time
I still assert that TFUII was a good game. It was a fun and cool experience despite its flaws.
My memory of force unleash 2 was: "WHERE'S MY GIRLFRIEND! I WANT MY GIRLFRIEND! WAAAHHH!!!"
Who am I? Am a clone? Oh can't cline a jedi. Let's get my girlfriend bring back my girlfriend.
Survivor was definitely the better of the two. I felt like TFU2 was lacking in a lot of places, and the way they had you ATTEMPT to unlock secondary lightsaber colors was outrageous. Survivor had slow moments, but I still enjoyed it from start to finish.
I don't know maby I'm wrong but I don't like slower games at all, I prefer so much more the intense and over the top action of force unleashed 2
@elderleon1844 There's nothing wrong with that at all.
Interestingly I happen the opposite initial reaction, absolutely loved unleashed 2 , got collector's edition at lauch on the ps3, was so cool to finally be able to play out the awesome god powers we saw on the big screen, and had also survivor at lauch but for the pc and ea really didn't give a shit, buggy mess, frequent crashes, breaks in gameplay, visual bugs, instability, and i was running on a rtx3080, shame what kind of presentation has become acceptable, sure updates and patches have made the game playable and fun since launch but that sour first impression has me feeling worse about survivor than fallen order at times, that games biggest flaw was cosmetic limits, poncho looks dumb.
Oven vs microwave in difference in quality
Jedi Survivor is a fucking toaster
I really try so hard to understand why you guys think force unleashed 2 is bad but I just can't understand no matter how much I try, and I even play the game in multiple plataforms but even then I just can't understand, this game is just so AMAZING!
Force Unleashed 2 was honestly so much fun, I really don't see it as a bad game. Yeah, it was pretty damn short, but it was so much fun man.
my name is in the video, i can get through another week
my main gripe about TFUII is that it was incredibly short compared to the first one and felt like there was less to do on each level compared to the first one
Force Unleashed 2 is just short lol, it was a great game
Babe wake up new Flandrew
Force unleashed 2 has great combat. Very fluid.
I didn't even expect we would get a swfu2, so I really can't complain that we did get one. It was actually an interesting concept for a sequel.
For the TFU2's story you have to include the tie-in comic.
The novel more so as it goes into depth such as kotas attack ib medoida, Juno qnd Bail freeing Moncala, and the 181st
Maybe you could compare Lethal Alliance and Outlaws when that comes out, because both games were made by Ubisoft.
Lethal alliance is better as its devs didnt insult their customers
I love general kota. I wish they did something with him. He’s a man that had known nothing but war constantly. The force unleashed has a goofy story but kota has to be one of my favorite take aways from it. I could totally see a rahm kota post dark empire trying to come to terms with his position in life. Whether he wants to keep fighting or if he’s ready to finally retire
Ah you should do both of these games paired up with Jedi Outcast, id love to see someone talk about the comparisons and contrasts there
0:45 bro you aint wall runming in Uncharted 💀
I really thought Jedi Fallen Order was a much better story than Survivor was, but the gameplay was better once I got used to the combat timing being different from the first game.
Agreed, Survivor has better gameplay, but Dagan and Bode are just terrible villains.
Yes
even jak 2 started with a breakout.. HUH.. i wonder how many sequels start with breakouts.
Kane & Lynch, F.3.A.R., God of War Ascension...
In retrospect Force Unleashed 2 is a masterpiece compared to both Star Wars Kinect and both Battlefront remakes.
How dare you attack kinect
Are you saying that because of the Lootbox thing? You know that Battlefront 2 is actually great now, right? It has been for like 4 years.
I love force unleashed 2. Sure it is short and has problems but it is a step up from the first one and if it had been given the attention, it would have made a great game
I think the game is better than the fist one
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@@thatguyfromA6915 In terms of Gameplay ( even if some elements are repetitive) and Graphics perhaps, but the story is frustrating anyway, compared to the first.
@@tibsky1396 yeah i get it but i love the gameplay
@@tibsky1396even gameplay tbh was better in 1. There were more trooper types which meant the game was more fun and challenging. And you had more control over your abilities while 2 makes them all really overpowered at the cost of how well they played. For example, force grip in 1 let you choose if you lift 1 or more enemies. In 2, if you upgraded it, you'll always grip more than 1 enemy if possible.
Problem with all Star Wars stuff trying to fit between Sith and New Hope is there are only abkut 20 years to squeeze things into. I mean, as a casual star wars fan, 20 years is not a long time for a GALACTIC sized empire to really have a lot of effects never mind have a lot of complex rebellion stuff make organic sense
I would kill to have a Force Unleashed Remake and/or a new game with the same gameplay style. The first Force Unleashed game was so much fun
Honestly the boss fight with Vader in Survivor should've been a boss fight with an inquisitor/secret apprentice version of starkiller.
lol at least force unleashed 2 was playable Jedi survivor had game breaking glitches
I want triple A, hack and slash jedi/sith game
the force unleashed
I wish Star Wars Force Unleashed could come back with new game mechanics and more open word like gameplay where we could emerge more into different combos powers and more free action towards our progress which might effect the game in different ways and more hidden ester eggs and plot twist added to make a great game.
I can faithfully say that Jedi Survivor is one of the best Star Wars games I've ever played, it improved on everything that Fallen Order did right and fixed nearly everything it did wrong, the slower pacing of the narrative to focus in heavily on character motivations with brief spurts of excitement to keep the stakes up and tensions raised before unraveling it's true machinations and ending with high emotions and lots of action is a very Star Wars thing to do too.
Yes there are bugs, yes the performance sucks, yes the game crashes... often, but I don't regret preordering it and I definitely don't regret playing it it's genuinely such a good game that I honestly can't wait for the 3rd game
The inverse of this is TFU 2, where it's nonstop it keeps throwing more and more and more at you and while it's fun on a surface level it gets dull very quickly once you realize there's very little substance there which is a shame because it does have a brilliant setup and interesting concept and most importantly an interesting question to ask about Starkiller's Clone, but it squanders it and the final battle is so boring that I actually believed it took 2 hours until I realized only 20 minutes had passed - compared to TFU1 it's such a letdown that it actually makes me hope for what I know won't come which is TFU3 just so we can get the follow-up the first game truly deserves, rather than excitement to see how it'll expand on the second game
Jedi Survivor failed horribly on the villains. Dagan Gera is a one-note bratty child with no nuance outside of "Muh Tanalorr", and Bode's betrayal was telegraphed from the trailers, and by the time it happened, they made him way too unredeemable to remotely care for him.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 Bode is literally your best pal, he even wants Cal to join him and does everything for his daughter it sounds like you read a synopsis on the game and then responded to 1/4 of my comment with such a small amount of criticism towards a game that is genuinely amazing in order to make yourself sound smarter, go troll somewhere else
@@TheJediMasterPro He's a literal walking red flag. Yeah, best bud you just met on Coruscant, they even say it in-game. There's nothing more unsubtle than forcing a "new best buddy" character into a sequel without expecting people to be suspicious. If you think calling out an aspect of a game you like so much is trolling, you need to work on your reading comprehension.
Notice I didn't pick on anything else because I actually like the gameplay, but the villains were so bad, they dragged down the story. A lot.
Get real.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 your reading comprehension definitely needs work what I replied with was that responding to 1/4 of my comment with a small criticism in order to make yourself seem smarter, which is EXACTLY what you did, is trolling, and no it really isn't a red flag its done often without there being a betrayal, stop trying you're just embarrassing yourself now
@@TheJediMasterPro Because copypasting the same thing you just posted is peak intelligence. I wasn't even attacking you, but the moment I dared say something bad your all time favorite game, you got protective. And yes, it's a red flag, GoldenEye did it. Frozen did it. Zootopia did it. After a while, it gets easy to spot. You're embarassing yourself by acting so unreasonably aggressive.
I loved the power in both force unleashed games
I wish the Force Unleashed 2 had more development time.
Do you think there will be any more Star Wars games in the future?
I haven’t played unleashed 2 yet, but in general, unleashed is better, I played the 1st one of the other game and it was boring as fuck
Jedi Survivor is my favorite Star Wars game. But I lament what happened with Force Unleashed 2. Wish the devs could have gotten the two year dev time they said they needed.
A cool alternate timeline could have been getting Battlefront 3 in 2009. The Force Unleashed 2 in 2011 or 2012. Getting First Assault in 2013 followed by Star Wars 1313 in 2014. Oh well.
I really dont agree, while I played neither.
Force Unleased has a better story, if you end the first game when Starkiller dies in the middle of the game and continue as a clone in Unleashed 2.
Dont have any fix for Jedi Survivor, its just bad.
TFU2 wasnt bad, its was just to damn short.
Video comment 12 asking Flandrew to review the Borderlands games.
I second this
the thing is the force unleashed 2 was made in one year and had a lot of tecnical issues and stll was decent to play. i like survival but the lack of more dismenberment and A GOD DEAM ROBE WITH A HOOD makes me put it way behind.
tfu2 was more fun. Also the novel was great and greatly expanded the story
We need another KOTOR like Star Wars game. One that takes places far away from the timeline we're all kind of sick of. I don't care if we go far into the past or future, just get away from the Fall of the Republic/Empire.
I have the 1st Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I Had it for PSP & I loved how you can duel & I liked how you can cheat code. But the Force Unleashed for Switch took that out
The reason for this is because the Switch is a re-release of the Wii version, which was the same as the PlayStation 2 only with an added multiplayer duel mode. The PSP is a crunched down port of the Wii/PS2 version with a *lot* more content.
I miss my PSP I had Batman Forever on it ... I had all these games... but like everything's gone now.
I was stupid & updated my PSP to play a disk... so I lost the capability to download & play from the download's @@ahums16
"Left with two unfinished trilogies"
If only it was two. Unless you actually count the TOR MMO as a proper conclusion to a trilogy.
I don't think KOTOR was ever supposed to be a trilogy though. The story concluded in KOTOR 2. Not everything Star Wars is automatically a trilogy.
Star wars the force unleashed was to short thats my only complain about it, well and the small amount of enemy types
TFU2 is an absolute trash game. Can't combo enemies(They have force block, teleport, resistance to your attacks or basic stormies just dies in 1 or 2 swings), force powers not accurete as first game(In first game you can throw someting blindly and you can hit something but in sequel i can't throw something to enemy 2 feet away from me), final boss was disappointment and challenge missons were hard as hell(I bet even creator of those challenges would have hard time). Yes also it is little short just like as everyone saying but I think story is not that bad but gameplay, It is too bad. Whole game is like swinging bats to stones. It had potential to surpass first game but TFU 1 is better in everyway. Honestly didn't play jedi survivor but no way i am going to say TFU2 is better or good game.
Thats why Kyle Katarn is the best rogue jedi, whos been on the dark side, but became a master in the end.
The gameplay in TFU 2 was a HUGE downgrade from TFU 1. See an enemy wielding lightsabers? Gotta kill them using Force powers and only Force powers. See a red Sith acolyte that can use Force powers and has no lightsabers? You gotta get in there and cut him up because he will deflect every single force power you throw at him. The amount of rock paper scissors BS you had to do in that game was so immersion breaking, and it pissed me off. In TFU 1 you could kill just about anything in any sort of creative way imaginable. Sure certain enemies might be resistant to a particular attack, but you could still find a dozen other ways to kill them. It felt kind of like a Prototype game toned down a bit and thrown into the Star Wars universe, and it was awesome. TFU 2 was nothing like that.
Shortness aside, I had fun with Force Unleashed 2, which something I can say I did not have Survivor due to the combat system, level design and narrative. Like all Disney era star wars, its all so soulless and overly dramatic
For some leashed in my opinion was a great little game, but it should’ve been longer less rushed
3 years dev time for Survivor seems okay since they are able to reuse a lot of Fallen Order
dude I swear I try I REALLY TRY VERY HARD to understand everything you guys say that makes force uleashed 2 ''bad'' but I just can't understand since 2010! THIS GAME IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH SINCE THIS WAS RELEASED! IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HACK N SLASH GAMES EVER AND I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE SAY THAT THIS IS A ''BAD'' GAME!!!
Force unleashed 1 can still be canon with the death ending. Force unleashed 2 on the other hand can't cause the cloning facility is destroyed in bad batch.
Ah yes, Force Unleashed 2 hating. You know, I played this game and I think it doesn't deserve all that hate.
I get its rushed but it does not deserve all the hate that it has
@@thatguyfromA6915 Noone really HATES on it. It was just a underwhelming sequel. Which it objectively was. It was way shorter than the first game, and like Flandrew said, a good sequel builds on what was good and fixes what wasn't. Force Unleashed 2 didn't do either. It's not a bad game or anything but there's just no reason to buy or play Force Unleashed 2 if you have the first part, because it simply doesn't do anything better than the first part.
And not every criticism is "hate". Not every opinion you disagree with is "hate". Sometimes people just point out that a game wasn't as good as it could have been because it simply wasn't.
@@EskChan19 not to to make fun of you but you got so upset at me saying that the game gets alot of hate which is still true alot of people hate this game no matter what way you put it if you dont like something it means you in a way hate it no matter what way it is
@Flandrew1_Tel-egram-me bot
In terms of per gameplay, TFUII wins, hands down! But you also need to consider that TFUII felt like an incomplete game
Imho. For me Survivor completly ruined by it's forced limitations that devs implemented (like having 5 styles but you can have only 2?!?!), not allow for free aim shooting (Kyle Katarn saying Hello from 2003), stupid decisions like make Force Speed as ultimate ability, mediocre storytelling with not interested characters (except Cal and Merin Romance since I wanted it on the first game), connection to High Republic that I don't care (If believe to infographs a lot of people don't care about it too) and badly stolen things from Sekiro and Zelda that doesn't work in SW Universe and making Cal more stupid and powerless Jedi ever. I think that combinations of idea from previous SW games and more freedom for Cal of using everything (or just not to be a copy of Sekiro) would help improve game.
I can't say to much given I haven't been able to play Jedi Survivor but I can safely say that I'm a huge star wars fan and I love the Force Unleashed games and Jedi Fallen Order and they were awesome, my opinion at least.
Definitely check out survivor. It’s honestly excellent
@@joshhunt4146 I can definitely see it and I'm anxious to use the double bladed lightsaber again. Lol
1:55 what is that crap was that a spider web?
Tbh I thought survivor was less enjoyable than fallen order so for me the situation with TFU is the same here
Cal Kestis became Spider-man
"What makes a good and bad star wars sequel game?"
Personal opinion. Like always.
TFU2 took away the feature of cutting up stormtroopers… demo had that featured
No it didn't?
The difference being force unleashed 2 was a good game
goddamn right
Unleashed 2 is like the posterchild for rushed sequel.
My only beef with Jedi Survivor it that it still hasnt received a proper cracking job. Yoho, mateys. ☠
Thanks, Denuvo.
I loved jedi survivor. Thought the story was great (insert Flandrew buuuut here) my issue with Bo's motivation at the very end made little sense. He basically wanted to kill Cal to take Talinor for himself and his daughter alone to be safe from the empire. But Cal also wanted to be safe from the empire, ok they might have had different ideas on how to do that but Bo basically died over very little difference between the 2 approaches. Also the kid really did not seem bothered her dad was dead in the post game when jetting across the galaxy. That was my only issue with the story for that one, otherwise it was really good.
Cal wanted to use Tanalorr for the Hidden Path, which would make it a target if the Empire ever found out about it.
@BRC1298 yeah I got that. I just didn't think think that was worth potentially dying for, or murdering people infront of his kid. Anyway it not a huge plot hole or anything just something that bugged me.
@billycurrythe2nd From Bodes POV, His daughter is literally being held as collateral by the ISB and the ISB know pretty much everywhere he would try to go in the Galaxy. Plus the head of the ISB knew Bode was a Jedi. Once his usefulness was used up and he was outed as an Ex-Jedi, he was as good as dead, and who knows what Vader would do with his Force Sensitive daughter? He needed a way out and he needed it fast.
Its pretty much the only reason he sidetracks his original mission of infiltrating Cal's team. From his perspective, once Cal switched from leaving the Galaxy to training a force to fight the empire, thereby ruining the only safe hiding place from the empire, he did what he felt was the only thing he could do to protect his daughter. You know raising a force of that magnitude would cause a massive disturbance in the force and Sidious and Vader will definitely sense it and seek it out, and Bode probably figures this. He's still a dick though.
Both have nothing on the true Star Wars gaming masterpiece - Jedi Academy.
I want star wars Force Unleashed 3 so much 😫
They basically are the same games just ones newer the force unleashed was amazing it just was short
TFU2 was rushed and repititive, but hey, the cinematic trailers were awesome!
I prefer The Force Unleashed 2.
No matter how short and bland TFU2 is, it will always be a better sequel to me. Not only did they improve the combat system in every imaginable way, it actually runs properly at 60fps on pc.
A game you can actually play is an infinitely better game in my opinion.
Of course I'd rather just play Fallen Order than either of TFU games.
Agree
I prefer Fallen Order to survivor.
>that thumbnail
Say, Flandrew? *Which of your internal organs would you say is your favorite?*
I kid, I kid, but actually now that I mention it? Who would you think would win in a fight - Kyle Katarn, or Starkiller (Galen Marek)?
Obviously Starkiller. Kyle Katarn is a way better character, since Starkiller is pretty much just a 14 year olds edgy power-fantasy self-insert. He's basically like Rey, except his game wasn't terrible. Well the story was about as bad but at least the game played well. But yeah Kyle Katarn is from a grounded, traditional Shooter, while Galen Marek is from a hack and slash game. Galen Marek is SUPPOSED an unstoppable Mary Sue who cannot lose. So there's simply no debate here. That's like asking "Who would win in a fight Episode 6 Luke or Episode 1 Anakin?"
hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby
Here’s hoping Jedi survivor gets a follow up, unlike force unleashed 2
hope you never get that sequel.
partially cus it's gonna be more Disney slop.
@@zawarudo8991 Hey, whatever keeps you sleeping at night.
@@BugsyFoga that makes no sense.
@@zawarudo8991 Though it makes sense for you to come at me like that.
@@BugsyFoga disney sw is cancer
Calling Force unleashed 2 bad is an crime it's great game though it's not as good as Jedi survivor it ain't bad
I wouldn't say it's bad but it felt more like a glorified DLC than an actual sequel.
@@bigkmoviesandgamesTotK syndrome
@@gabe5918 what is that?
He never said that Force Unleashed 2 is bad, he said it's a bad SEQUEL. Which it is. It's a fine game if you play it standing on it's own, but if you consider it the second part of the force unleashed, what does it bring to the table that the first game didn't? When you rate a sequel the question is always, why would you play the sequel over the original? What does it do better than the original? If you were only allowed one of these two games for the rest of your life, would you chose the second one over the first one?
If the second part is better than the first one, it's a good sequel, otherwise it's a bad sequel. And there's simply no reason to play Force Unleashed 2 if you already have Force Unleashed 1
@@bigkmoviesandgamesTears Of The Kingdom haven't played it tho
It's not really fair to compare Jedi Survivor to a game which had 2/3rds of its budget cut mid development due to the Disney acquisition.
the only think JS has over TFU II is length
And gameplay. And graphics. And story telling. And character progression.
Wait, is Jedi Survivor well liked? I thought it wasn't considered all that good? I mean, obviously not BAD, and obviously better than Force Unleashed 2, but nothing special.
Yeah, the Jedi games are so much better than the Force Unleashed games. But I LOVED playing the Force Unleashed 2 on the Wii. It was so fun pretending the controller was a lightsaber
Here's why digital inclusion is a mistake:
I just hate the reverse saber stance looks so dumb and not practical
TFU 2 was amusing but quick and half-assed. Survivor was well-made, well-written, fun, and impactful. They've both got their merits, but Survivor is better by every metric.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 is better in my opinion
I like both of them