Some of the best graphics I've seen on the 360, right alongside Halo Reach. The cutscenes are beautiful.
Combat is pretty good. There isn't that awful Force Push wheel, targeting is vastly improved over Force Unleashed 1, and having two lightsabers is pretty cool, except I'm still waiting for the game where you can unlock Darth Maul's lightsaber and actually use it.
There aren't too many glitches from what I could tell; Starkiller disappeared out of the game for a few seconds then came back, but that only happened once. There's still that annoying bug where if you're on the edge of a platform or object and try to jump, you don't move forward, but timing the jump differently can fix that.
My only major criticism is that the boss battles were a little too epic for their own good, at least to me. The giant creature you fight in the arena (Gorgon? Goron? Al Gore?) seemed to be just a little too fantastic for the scope of the game, and the ending fight with Vader seemed to drag on and on and on interminably. Also, the frantic button-mashing at the very end made me wish there was still that 'Turbo' option on controllers... my fingers were pretty beat up after doing it twice. A more minor criticism is that there were some really repetitive elements to the game, such as outrunning an bridge that is exploding behind you and facing the same kind of enemies over, and over, and over, and over. At least there weren't any Imperial Purge Troopers, I would have punched my hand through the TV (and it isn't a flatscreen, it has actual glass on the front).
All in all, I think that this is a great game. The developers really took the time to address the faults of Force Unleashed 1, and work past them to make a game that I really enjoyed playing. Sure, the story was rather lame and the campaign takes maybe 5 hours to do on Medium, but I'm willing to look past those issues because I had a heck of a time playing. Good job, LucasArts!
Graphics: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Story: 3/5
Overall: 4/5
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