Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

The game borrows heavily from the mechanics of other great games, Uncharted, Dark Souls, and the metroidvania genre. But it works. If you're expecting a groundbreaking completely original game, this isn't that. If you want a beautiful game that's basically a 3D metroidvania then you'll love this game. I did.

The best Star Wars game I've ever played! The ending is pretty epic as well.

Thanks to EA for bringing the world a Star Wars game that is more than just a bitty, online-only punch-up. As a fan of old titles like 'Knight of the Old Republic', a single-player, immersive adventure like this was just the ticket for me. That said, the game is not without its problems. If EA is planning more like this, I'd like to offer some constructive criticism.

First - combat difficulty levels. I'm an old fart and my gamer reflexes are very mid-table by some standards. That said, I'm generally far above the easy-peasy modes, which is where I spend a lot of my Fallen Order time. It's just too difficult to time parries and use force powers - particularly against animals - without getting killed, a lot. I learned the game's ways eventually but I'm still mostly limited to 'Jedi Knight' level. Even on my second run-through, I can't nail a boss scene without taking it all the way down to kindergarten level. An unfortunate effect of all this is that a cagey, defensive combat style which avoids frequent death and tedious back-tracking also stops you generating and using the force powers which are really the key appeal of the game.

Second - interminable cut-scenes that go on and on and on and can't be skipped. Please give the gamer the choice about whether they want to watch the cinematic links. They don't always enrich and can simply frustrate.

Third - puzzles. As an Assassin's Creed aficionado, I quickly learned that the third-person mayhem of Fallen Order is only superficially similar to AC Odyssey, et al. Not only is the combat trickier and less intuitive, but there is far more head-scratching and problem-solving to be tackled simply to get from A to B. I learned to enjoy this aspect - apart from one or two scenes I simply couldn't crack without YouTube. I'd ask EA to make the cutesier problems a bit less obstuse. Examining one room for twenty minutes isn't my idea of a good time, nor is repeatedly failing an impossible jump because I'm new to the game and don't realise I'll be coming back to the location later with more powers.

That's it. This game comes pretty close to classic, but the frustration needs to be dialled down.

This is the kind of Star Wars game I've been waiting for. I'll give my complaints first and then I'll vent about how great this game is. My complaints: The combat in this game is choppy. One moment its smooth and beautiful. The next you get knocked down and pummeled by enemy attacks before you can get back up and defend yourself. Some of the puzzles in the game are unnecessary and waste too much time. It bogs the story down and takes away from the gravity of the game. MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT: This game needs more story. After playing through the game, I realized I wasn't ready for it to end. The story seemed very short. The shell of the story is wonderful. But, there's very little character development and relationship building between you and your allies. There are NO side quests, other than simply hunting for more loot. There is so much potential for these characters, but we are given no opportunity to explore it.

I really enjoyed this game. I am a huge fan of customization in games, and this game delivers on that wonderfully. The story is great with some fantastic plot twists that you'll never see coming. I have been waiting for a game like this since Force Unleashed 1. I NEED MORE!

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" (2019) is a good game in a spirit of Uncharted and rebooted Tomb Raider series. It borrow heavily from those two games, but so what - i like these kind of games and i really enjoyed "Fallen Order". Yet game was a bit buggy and glitchy and even crashed few times. Also i wasn't the big fan of a fact that these worlds did not feature fast travel after you complete their main objective - i loved design of them but going back from one end to another multiple times started to feel tedious pretty soon. But that did not stop me from exploring all 5 planets 100%.

Overall, "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" is a very good game, but not great or amazing unfortunately. If they will make a sequel one day, i hope they expend on this very good foundation that they did here.