Just finished Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2.
Its a marked improvement from the first game. The fighting is cool, the powers are pretty nice. Everything looks pretty. Its just..a little short for a hack and slasher.
So was the first game. By the way, is your Lightsaber still by and large a fashion accessory? I couldn't find a good use for it short of Force Throw.
For foes that are resistant to throws, pushes or other Force powers, cutting them down is the only way to go. And no you'll want to use your saber most of the time still. The styles are pretty cool.
Yeah, in the first game I saw little to no reason for using the lightsaber. The combos were repetitive and the powers were much cooler. Nothing said "Fuck you" to a bunch of enemies like sending them flying and shattering them against the walls.
Lightsaber crystals aren't just color templates now. You can choose different crystals (that you collect via holocrons) and pair up combinations (main saber and secondary saber) for different effects.
And dismemberment is active in this game. Stormtroopers and humanoid enemies can lose body parts, or disintegrate (if using the black crystal), set on fire (if using the fiery orange), etc etc.
Quite a lot of combos I might add, though you usually tend to just mash the attack button and use the lightning button to stun foes that keep blocking your swings.
The only annoying enemies are the machine-based ones, or the mechas if you prefer to call it. There's really no very safe way of fighting them without them just standing there and kicking you and stuff. On an Unleashed setting, getting hit a few times would kill you.
And the flaw with blocking still remains. There's simply no way to even keep yourself perfectly safe against a barrage of lasers in a singular direction, much less hope to even have enough deflections worth a damn.
Also despite having Force Lightning maxxed out, you simply cannot clear a room of troopers. More troopers than the maximum amount of bolts you can spare (IIRC 5). You can spam Push pretty quickly, better choice for making a room come alive with bouncing troopers.
The Force Rage ability is pretty damn bloody sweet. Can't really describe it, but every ability gets a major boost, including your typical lightsaber strikes, which erm, is more like using close range saber throws than actual holding and swinging.