Smile and Nod: Flinging Dudes is Never Not Fun

Russ Pitts likes Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Not because it's revolutionary, not because it's deep, but because it lets you fling dudes toward the first star on the right and straight on 'til morning.

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I can understand someone not digging God of War; and getting off on force powers. But still, GoW needs to be defended here. There's a reason why GoW has a 94 average on Metacritic and TFU ranges from 68-73.

Jomonjin:
I can understand someone not digging God of War; and getting off on force powers. But still, GoW needs to be defended here. There's a reason why GoW has a 94 average on Metacritic and TFU ranges from 68-73.

I don't know, I kind of agree with the writer. GoW was a decent game, but I am honestly having a lot more fun with Force Unleashed. A lot more fun than I ever had with God of War. As much as reviewers have been slamming this game, it seems that it's in a similar boat to most action flics in movie theaters. No reviewer is going to love it, but it's still pure unadulterated fun.

It makes sense, really.

It gives us pleasure to see other people in pain.

This game gives you tons of awesome ways to cause pain in people.

And you can even toy with the body after death.

Brilliant.

Using the laser sword to impress the girls? Give me a break. Jedi don't date. They don't do anything. Don't drink, don't smoke ... nothing.

I sense a disturbance in the Force is Out of Step

Great review. Though I don't see why everyone ties KotOR and Unleashed together? They different games bar the Star Wars licence.

Also, I couldn't stop thinking, with those Purge Troopers, any way to pluck their rockets from the air and guide it back at them?

This is the best assesment of this game that I've seen thus far, and I couldn't agree more (except I love the GoW series).

Excellent review, and very true. I've only had time to play the PSP version, but the graphics are so soup-like and the animations were such an eyesore it took a lot of work just to get to the end. The game itself wasn't that bad though, just hack-and-slashish.

I agree wholeheartedly, the game's a whole lot of fun.

Although I kinda want to hurt you for speakin' about my favourite game series as though it's anything but awesome and better-in-every-way than TFU.

Edit: I love this comic.

Minor factual nit-pick, Quake was released in June 1996, over a year after the first release of Dark Forces. Dark Forces has more in common with Doom than with Quake anyway.

I completely agree with Purplerain, comparing KOTOR and Unleashed is like comparing a stop sign to a blind mule, sure they're both fun to shoot at, but beyonfd that thers no real connection.

shMerker:
Minor factual nit-pick, Quake was released in June 1996, over a year after the first release of Dark Forces. Dark Forces has more in common with Doom than with Quake anyway.

Good catch. I was alerted to that one Saturday by one of our staff. I actually played both Dark Forces and Quake in the same year. In fact, I had to delay my time with Dark Forces to save up for a system upgrade, so I more than likely played Quake first.

Nevertheless, my personal recollection of the truth only passes for fact when nobody else is paying attention. :) I made the change.