This is a reasonably solid game. It's got a semi-interesting story for Star Wars fans and for the most part the game play is a lot of fun. It's got a fair amount of character customization that you can almost adapt to your play style, but not quite. This game is not without its fair share of glitches and/or technical shortcomings. I found the targeting system to be the most frustrating element of the game; you can be facing down a large AT ST, swing your light saber, and your character will turn around to attack a storm trooper that's behind you (and out of melee reach). Likewise you can pull RT to force grab an object right in front of you, and grab some random crap that's not at all what you were facing and/or expecting. The same goes for throwing objects; they seem to lock on sometimes but often fly in a random direction. Some of the platforming can be frustrating, like hitting invisible walls or slipping off of surfaces without much gradation. Sometimes landing on an object will immediately start an irrecoverable slip to your doom, which can set you back 10-15 minutes depending on the last auto save. Another incredibly frustrating technical (design choice?) problem is that when your character gets knocked down, he does a silly stand up animation every time that takes roughly a second or two, during which you can take damage, and even more frustratingly, be knocked down again. I encountered one part of the game where I got knocked down by a missile, then hit with another missile while standing up and therefor knocking me down again, followed by the same situation until I died. It was infuriating. Also, enemies shooting you off screen can be a serious drag, especially when you're low on life. I died quite a few times to off screen cheap shots. There is also sub-loading in all of the menu options (like 5 seconds each), which baffles me. It's even reading from my hard drive since I installed the game, yet it takes 5 seconds to navigate to my skills page, and then another 5 seconds to go back to the main pause screen. Once you can accept these technical challenges, the game play can be very satisfying as you butcher and electrocute your way through waves of seemingly helpless enemies.
EDIT: I wrote this review when I was about 75% complete with the game. I finished it last night, and let me tell you, few times in my life have I been so frustrated with a video game. Without spoiling anything for you, the last level is some serious crap. It opens up with the most challenging (non-boss) battle of the game, which lasted about 15-20 minutes for me, and if you die, you start from the beginning. After that the level progresses along in a simple and straight forward fashion, until the final boss sequence. The camera in this portion of the game wouldn't be any worse if it was behind the walls. At times you have maybe an inch of screen space for your character because it must keep the boss as the focal point of the cinematic camera. There are also unavoidable moves that hit you without any warning that do ~50% of your health bar. Also, the targeting system here is a real treat. Good luck attacking anything you plan on attacking, and have fun force lightning-ing the piss out of the walls. After about an hour of getting killed, I finally made it through the last boss fight alive. I must say, the last fighting sequence is the poorest boss fight I have ever completed; that's after Alma from the Ninja Gaiden on Xbox, and she was a downright cheater. Good luck not throwing this game in the trash during the last level.
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