I really, really enjoyed The Force Unleashed. So much so that I completed it in one long sitting, which I never do with games. (It helps that it's quite short, of course.)
The colour of my lightsaber being wrong in cut scenes did annoy me - even the PSP version uses the coolour you're actually using in its cut scenes, FFS. (Talking of the PSP version, it's okay, but a bit hard and the camera is appalling. Lovely extra modes not in the big versions, though.)
The
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Star Destroyer
bit was fucking awful, but only because the game was lying to me about the direction to move the sticks in. Once I worked that out it was fine, but it should never have happened.
I did have to restart once when I fell off a ledge and the game didn't kill me, instead letting me run around on an invisible floor over some lava without me being able to jump back up. And once the level and enemies disappeared and I had to run about for a couple of minutes until they came back.
Apart from that, no complaints. A little bit of screen tearing, but no slowdown that I noticed. And I mostly managed to focus on what I wanted to focus on when it came to using the force.
I wonder if it makes any difference that I was playing the PS3 version on Easy? I certainly didn't have trouble with flinching or dying all the time. I probably did die about twenty times in total, but most of those were near the end. And I hardly used the block button.
I found it fluid, exciting and amusing. I just had a great time flinging stormtroopers about with gay abandon and drop kicking jawas.
I haven't decided whether to keep it or trade it in and I certainly wouldn't recommend spending £40 quid on it unless you're a Star Wars freak, but I think it's going to be a good £20 buy for anyone who doesn't actively hate Star Wars.