Going to start
off with some quick positives with it’s free to play and not necessarily a ton
of restrictions if you want to enjoy the game for what it is.
The graphics
are quite good with large surrounding areas and it never feels like that
everything is copied and pasted. Every
world seems very different and looks incredibly beautiful. There is certainly a scope of feeling that
this is a very big game. Special mention
for the introduction movies that not only feel like Star Wars but gave
impressive moments.
Plenty to do
with tons of quests, story quests, flash points and other bits and pieces. I really felt like that I could never get all
this done in a billion years.
The characters
I have to say
this to me was a positive especially when I chose a male character that had a
female companion. I created a bond and a
relationship between these two. We get a
lot more background story about relationships with Jedi’s. Although this was explored during the
prequels we didn’t actually get much other than a very poorly acted love scene
which felt very uncomfortable to watch.
This time around the relationship doesn’t feel uncomfortable but it’s
quite fun to follow. There’s plenty of
characters to come across, the good the bad and the ugly. Some are companions some are not while others
you end up killing. The Star Wars
universe as ever is full of our usual type of characters. This is certainly a good thing.
Story
This was a big let-down
I have to say for a Jedi Knight, I found a lot quite predictable and poorly
constructed. The ending to chapter 3 I must
say was incredibly unsatisfying. I wasn’t
impressed that the introduction movies gave us this big war but it turns out
that the story is based on after the war.
Yet for some reason there is heavy conflict going on so are we at war or
is there a truce?
Story is
another big thing that’s important to Star Wars and it’s a failure so far in my
eyes for this game.
Space Battles
One thing the
majority of Star Wars games got right was the space battles. So tell me why this was screwed over?
There is no
real 3d environment to fly around in instead you follow a path. So each engagement is pretty much exact the
same. You can’t suddenly decide to turn
around and engage a bunch of fighters or bombers instead you are presented with
what’s in front of you and it’s up to you to prioritise the targets. This means even the difficulty missions are
still very easy but the worst is – boring.
The music is very repetitive and even now I can hear the generic song
that doesn’t feel Star Wars. All the
epic battles we’ve played in Star Wars games they failed miserably on this
one. Yet this was the one thing Star
Wars fans tend to enjoy the most among lightsabre battles. They really dropped the ball on this one.
Music
On one side
some of the music created is very good but it doesn’t always feel like Star
Wars. During the movies the music was
running effectively nonstop to what was on the screen. This gave the audience a feeling that this
was a grand epic story. No matter how
small the characters or what we witnessed the music always went along with the
flow. Sadly another part missing from
this game is that music playing nonstop to what’s happening without the endless
feeling of repetition. The battle music
is usually the same, space music is the same…. And that’s how it goes.
The conclusion for this game is although there is
plenty to do you will feel the two biggest important things have been created
badly – Story and Space Battles. IT
honestly feels like they spent so much time creating the introduction movies
and graphics of Star Wars but they neglected the other important things. Considering how much this game cost to make..
you have to ask your self if the person responsible is still in the job. Even if they made cut backs on the worlds
available and released them later. You
can’t ignore that the fundamentals of Star Wars are missing in this game. Worth playing but long term subscription isn’t
worth it. I’d play it for a couple of
months like I did last time and return to see what’s been added.
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